Oak Meadow provides curriculum and has an accredited distance learning school. The 30-year-old institution creates independent learning materials for families all over the world. Oak Meadow’s focus is on providing a “firm foundation for academic excellence, while offering new opportunities for learning.” Using Oak Meadow curriculum or their distance learning program, you can home educate children from preschool through high school. Using the distance learning option, completed work is sent to “qualified Oak Meadow teachers for assessment”.
Odyssey Learning Services offers the popular Switch on Schoolhouse Curriculum and an accredited distance-learning academy diploma program for K-12, with an emphasis in individualized learning, utilizing the advanced distance learning technology found in Switched-On Schoolhouse 2.0”
Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading provides scripted teaching lessons to help parents teach children how to read. It is a phonics-based program. This guide is “jargon free”, and devoid of “obscure educationalese”. If you need feel insecure about teaching your child to read, this book should help.
Pathway Readers provides wholesome reading curriculum with traditional Christian Values. It is a phonics-based approach to reading. It is published by the Amish Farming Community and used in teaching Amish children.
Pecci Educational Publishers is the author of the Pecci Reading Method. This reading method boasts a “perfect balance” between phonics and literature based readers.
Pentime Handwriting is a program used to teach cursive handwriting. Pentime handwriting workbooks were designed for Amish schoolchildren, but other homeschoolers have found them quite valuable.
Personal Professors online learning center is a self-paced, live instruction for independent learners. Expert teachers hold live office hours each week and lectures are delivered using a digital whiteboard and voice system. It is like being able to access a live classroom from home.
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