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The Charlotte Mason Method Increases the Effectiveness of a Child
Reading Program for Home School Education
When it comes to home schooling, parents need all of the resources they
can muster. Designing curricula, scheduling field trips, and tailoring
lesson plans to children in different grade levels can be challenging.
Using children's literature to enrich the curriculum you teach in the
home learning environment can be rewarding to both you and your
children.
Charlotte Mason, a British educator whose life
spanned the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter
of the twentieth century, fervently advocated the use of literature in
children's education. Often referred to as the founder of home
schooling, Mason pioneered a liberal arts approach to children's
education. In contrast to the rigid memorization required of students
during her time, Mason's educational theories embraced the concept of
instilling a love of learning in children and exposing them to a wide
variety of subjects.
Today, many parents use the Charlotte
Mason method as a home school resource. Several of Mason's key concepts
relate to reading in the home learning environment. The first is the
avoidance of what she termed "twaddle," or books that today could be
called "junk food for the mind." You're probably familiar with the type,
such as chapter books based on TV shows that use overly simplistic
sentences and rely on illustrations, rather than words, to engage a
child. Instead, the Mason method opts for children's literature that is
well written and captivates the child's imagination with words.
Another of Mason's key concepts that relates to reading is that of
"whole books." She advocated that a child read a book in its entirety,
rather than simply reading book excerpts. Any parent of a child educated
in the public school system knows that language arts textbooks are
typically anthologies of book excerpts. Mason felt that a work should be
read as it was written, as opposed to reading only a portion of the
complete book.
Narration is a third concept advocated by Mason.
In contrast to rote memorization and recitation, or testing that focuses
on what a child doesn't know, Mason felt that children should have the
opportunity to explain what they do know. After reading a book, for
example, a child could talk about what he or she learned, could write
about the book in a journal, or could paint or sculpt a depiction of
what he or she learned.
Charlotte Mason's teaching methods are
easy and inexpensive to integrate into home education. Developing an
effective reading program for home learning - by avoiding "twaddle," by
reading the whole book, and by incorporating narration as a measure of
comprehension - is an integral component to the Mason method. Utilizing
children's book reviews will help in this effort, as will broadening the
reading experience by incorporating related individual and family
activities.
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Many of
the titles we list on Discovery
Journey are road-tested by our
10-year-old Triplet Testing
Team. To see the likes and
dislikes of each kid on the
team, see the
Meet the
Guides page.
In
addition, Discovery Journey
explorers share their family's
experience with books and movies
so that you can benefit from
their knowledge as well.
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