How to Tailor High School Language Arts to Your Homeschooler ...

By Sabrina Justison on 14 January 2013 / Career Exploration, Language Arts, Literature, Writing / 0 Comment

Using Language Arts learning time time to also explore your child's unique strengths is a smart way to homeschool, especially in high school.

In your homeschool, you can choose books and writing assignments that will speak to your child in a personal way, and help him uncover his strengths and prepare for life after school.

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Here are some ideas for tailoring your Language Arts to a discovery of strengths for your student:

1. Start with what you already know is interesting.? Include some biographies or autobiographies on the reading list, life stories of people who have done things that your child finds fascinating. Maybe you want to look for fiction that is character-driven rather than plot-driven.?

Love data and facts and numbers?? The reading list should reflect that. Include technical writing, scientific articles and journals, and how-to books with lots of data. When he needs to read some fiction, find a book that has a puzzle to be solved in it, or a science fiction novel that includes a lot of food for scientific thought.

2. Include others in your Language Arts. Reading is often a solitary pursuit for a bookworm, but for kids who are not drawn to words on a page meeting with other students who are reading the same book at the same time opens the door for lots of cool discussion.? If each child in the group (with guidance from the parents) picks one book that really speaks to his/her soul, you'll see some wonderful discussions result!

3. Include the arts. Use the internet to find artistic interpretations of literature you are reading. Don't always assign written work after a book has been read; for an artistic child assign an art project inspired by the book instead. Ask your budding musician to write a song in response to the book he read. Make arrangements for your young actor to script a scene from a book and make time to rehearse it with a friend or two, or even present the material as a monologue at a family gathering.

4. Is your child good with her hands? If she has a knack for putting things together, for building things, allow her to build a model of something from a book, and then write up the instructions for how she did it as a tie-in if you need more writing assignment ideas.

5. Remember how important technical reading and writing are. Attention to detail and a desire for precision equip a reader and writer for excellence in many careers. Reading instruction manuals for putting together a piece of furniture, assembling a computer, etc. are valid types of reading, and we often overlook them in our homeschools.

6. Journalism is sometimes neglected in our reading and writing. Read some essays, some articles, some professional journals in an area of interest. Maybe assign articles for his writing as well. Not all written work needs to be long.? Allow him to try writing in the style of one accomplished journalist or another. When he reads about an event in history, have him follow it up with an article written for a newspaper as if it were happening in the news right now.

Just because a child is not the next great novelist doesn't mean she can't find her writing voice and explore ideas that interest her in a variety of unusual ways. Reading and writing are two wonderful tools for exploring a student's strengths.

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