Michael Maloney

Former columnist for Practical Homeschooling Magazine.

Michael Maloney, M.A. is a teacher, principal, researcher, and best selling author of the Teach Your Children to Read Well and the Teach Your Children Math Well series. He has founded 20 learning centers and is the winner of the National Educator Literacy Award for 2001 (Canada). See www.teachyourchildrenwell.ca for more information.

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Homeschooling Articles by Michael Maloney

The Geography of Victory and of Defeat How geography can affect history.

Teaching Abbreviations Using Flashcards Using flashcards to memorize commonly-used abbreviations.

Learning Geographic Concepts and Terms Becoming fluent in the specialized vocabulary of geography.

Teaching Geography Using the DI Approach Teaching geography: The Direct Instruction approach.

Teaching Geography How to become fluent in geography.

Practical Geography Facts and Numbers Fun ways to tie geography study to the real world.

Geography and History at the Crossroads Geography and history together are better than either by itself.

Reading Comprehension Part 4: Logical Reasoning How to use the rules of argumentation to evaluate a writer's reasoning.

Reading Comprehension Part 3: Deductive Reasoning How to use the rules of logic to help your student understand what he reads.

Reading Comprehension, Part 2: Inference How to improve your student's ability to draw inferences from what he reads.

Building Fluent Reading Comprehension Skills, Part One How to measure - and improve - reading comprehension.

Building Fluent Vocabulary How to measure and improve proficiency in vocabulary.

Teaching Fluent Keyboarding Skills How to measure and improve keyboarding fluency.

Teaching Fluent Handwriting Skills, Part 2 More help for developing fluent handwriting.

Teaching Fluent Handwriting Skills Help for developing fluent handwriting.

More Results in Less Time: The One-Minute Drill That Works What are SAFMEDS and what are they good for?

Fluent Grammar Measuring and improving English grammar proficiency.

Teaching Reading Comprehension Skills Measuring and improving reading comprehension.

Spelling Fluency: Pre-Drills for Teaching Spelling A roadmap to speedy, accurate spelling.

Arithmetic Fluency: Some Ideas for Achieving It

How to Teach Reading & Measure Your Child's Reading Skills

Frequency and Fluency - New Ways to Measure Student Performance What are frequency and fluency and how can you use them in your homeschool?

The Maloney Method How did this feisty Canadian Literacy Educator of the Year come up with a five-point method that teaches basic skills to even the toughest students? And how does his method work?