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Summary: Great Resource...and Filled With Wisdom
Review: The great thing about these little (28-30 pages) guides is that they truly give you all you need to start successfully homeschooling your K-3rd Grader in 3 core areas: reading, Language (Grammar) and Math. They are jammed packed with details and wonderful "how-tos", not rhetoric. I imagine that you can design a whole year's curriculum with just this packet, and a collection of very good books. Do yourself a favor, ditch the urge to buy those expensive curriculums with bells and whistles. Buy this first. I just wish I found this series BEFORE I spent hundreds of dollars on buying and selling things I didn't want or need. When you have finished this, I suggest you read Beechick's You Can Teach Your Child Successfully for more wisdom on schooling 4th-8th Grade.Enjoy.
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Summary: Superb Starters
Review: These are the best little books for starting to homeschool. They cover the basics and they do it well. With just these three books, a few math manipulatives, and a selection of books for reading you too can homeschool. These books cover everything you need for the basics. They provide me the confidence I need and a reminder to keep it simple. I wish I had found these books first before reading any of the other 'how to homeschool' type books or wasting my time trying to find a prepackaged curriculum. Enjoy.
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Summary: Not enough here - disappointing.
Review: These booklets are short and somewhat rambling atttempts at beginning a cirriculum. No way they provide enough for the homeschooler. Look to more complete books like E.D. Hirsch, and the Writer's Express series. Even "workbooks" are better than these.
Rating: 
Summary: Exceptional!
Review: These books have taught ME how to teach the core requirements for kindergarten and 1st grade. I will continue to use Ruth Beechick materials throughout 8th grade. She makes life much easier for me by being practical and using good, common sense approaches.
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Summary: Simple and very effective
Review: These little books are jam-packed with great, usable, easy advice *that really works* to teach your children the Three R's in the first years. I have taught both my eldst two sons how to read using Ruth Beechicks recommendations from The Three R's, not only did they enjoy the process (rare for boys anyway) but they now have a voracious appetite for reading. (They are 9 and 7). Im now starting again with my 5 year old, and have sold all those other reading programs I thought I needed. I could say the same thing in re. to maths and writing. Thank you Dr Beechick!
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