Homeschool World Forum

WE have made the Bible the centre of our homeschooling and can testify that it produces excellent results.
My children have been trained to do their own private Bible reading everyday from the time they could read fluently .
Prior to that ,I read to them everyday.
We have used the Bible for learning to read, for penmanship practise, for grammar, for history, comprehension and so on.

We read from the Bible as a family too in our morning and evening family worships .Great read aloud practise too because everyone takes turns.
For more about this read The Family That Prays Together in The Narrow Way[.

And we have found in our own experience that this method produces good test scores too.My girls were accepted into university at 15 .
Great for character too.

Something I neglected to mention that is in my opinion very important -I always prayed with the children prior to reading the Bible .
I prayed serious prayers too,asking God to use the reading of His word for the noursishment of the child/children.

We approach the Bible with reverence . Its not just another book.

And we often prayed again when we had ended our reading of the Bible,even if it is part of school time .

I encourage my children to pray as well at these times.
Its precious hearing young children praying "Please help us understand ...."

When reading to a young child I will read the original rendering and then if necessary give a paraphrase ,if the word if it is not part of the child's vocabulary. With familiarity this becomes necessary less and less.

Don't underestimate the value of Bible reading even to a young child.
God will bless your efforts.

What a wise suggestion, Ang!

My children and I have been doing daily lessons from Leading Little Ones to God, and then reading from the Bible. I let my oldest son (7) read and it is so precious to hear God's word coming from his mouth. We pray together after the lesson. I think I may add a nightly Bible reading time as well.

Wow, what a blessing to hear! It must be beautiful to see your children picking up and reading the Word of God on their own! I pray that I can instill the value of reading the Word in my son also (right now he's only 21 months and so he's not reading yet)