Design your Homeschool Textbooks Approach

Are you interested in using the Homeschool Textbooks Approach, but would like to customize it to make it suit your family? How do we do that?

How can you customize?

1. Decide on All or Part

Firstly, you need to make the decision whether you would like to use a full homeschool curriculum - per grade level with all subjects included, per child.

If you choose to do that, you can look at the product descriptions of various full year scope and sequence based curriculum packages here.

Just a little side-thought: I must add that although I believe homeschool textbooks have their place at some stages in homeschooling, if you have a large family, it seems to be a shame that each child is working independently on their own course. I love the subjects which we can combine (history, science, literature, art) and enjoy the learning experience together - even if we are learning at different levels.

2. Choose your subject areas

However, you may choose to use homeschool textbooks for just one subject or for a few.

For example, you may have chosen to use Unit Studies. Depending on the study and how it is organized, it may cover subjects such as reading, writing, history or science. But you feel you need some help in Math. Then find a Math Textbook which will suit your child's learning style.

Perhaps Science is not your strong subject and you would appreciate a methodical approach, or you have children who excel in Science and would love to teach themselves further, then find a Science Homeschool Textbook and continue with the rest of your studies in your own way.

3. Choose how you will use the text

Once you have decided on which home school textbooks you use, you need to decide how to use the text.

• Use as is - Use the textbook as directed. Use with the worktext if possible.


• Use as a springboard - Begin with the textbook to open the topic; Explore further areas to research; Discuss how the information may be presented and explored. See some of these learning ideas.


• Use as a reference - Use the textbook as a reference. Keep the homeschool textbooks in your personal library and when your child is interested in a certain topic, open the text and explore it some more.

Where to from here?

Find out how to design some more homeschool approaches to suit your family:

• Design Your Own Charlotte Mason/ Living Books Approach
• Design Your Own Unit Study Approach
• Design Your Own Classical Curriculum Approach
• Design Your Own Delight-Directed Approach
• Design Your Own Thomas Jefferson Education

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