Aspects of a comprehensive language arts program including: phonics and phonemic awareness; spelling; vocabulary and word study; reading strategies, fluency, and comprehension; grammar, usage, mechanics; and written composition. Resources in each area for struggling learners. A thumbnail look at what speaker’s top picks offer and what audience would most benefit from each.

Planning your homeschool and getting started. Complying with the law, including filing the required online form PI-1206.

Overwhelmed by all the homeschool curriculums available? Brief descriptions of basic facts and features of a number of textbook-based curriculums including A Beka, ACE, Alpha Omega, Bob Jones, Christian Liberty Press, Mystery of History, Pandia Press, Power Basics, Singapore, and Story of the World will be presented to help you decide which components might work well for your family. A purchased textbook curriculum can serve as a core for one or more subject areas and serve as a springboard in a rich and varied homeschool program.

Learn how the JASON Project, Immersion Learning, Engineering is Elementary, and STOP for Science improve student performance, are interdisciplinary, and provide a wonderful introduction to science, technology, engineering, and math for kids of all ages.

Confused by all the different styles of homeschooling that are available? Basic information about four different styles: purchased curriculum, unit studies, eclectic, and unschooling. How you can choose a style that works well for you and your family. Making changes when necessary. For both new and experienced homeschoolers.

An overview of choices available to help you decide which are best for your family. Math options include Bob Jones, Key To, Mathletics, Math-U-See, Right Start Math, Saxon, Singapore Math, Teaching Textbooks, and Thinkwell. Science options include curriculum with creation-based, evolutionary, and origins neutral programs including Alpha Omega, Apologia, Bob Jones, Power Basics, Pandia Press R.E.A.L. Science, Real Science 4 Kids, and Singapore Science.

Homeschooling is more than academics. Keeping "the big picture" in mind so we can help our children grow into well-rounded, contributing adults. Acquiring thinking, business, character, and communication skills and others. Remembering that parents are in the best position to make these decisions for their families, that there isn't one set of priorities that every family should use or aspire to, and that one big advantage to homeschooling is that parents (and not the public schools) take responsibility.