CONQUEST BOOKS - Christian resources for all the family

Subtitled "Choosing the Right Curriculum and Approach for Your Child's Learning Style". Chapters presenting the Top 100 Picks uses a chart system for easy comparison in regard to learning styles to help parents make informed choices.- Chapter reviews of Top 100 Picks provides thorough reviews with illustrations so parents can have complete information when making these crucial educational choices for their children.

No. of pages: 320

Format: Paperback

Price: £12.50

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This is a thorough chapter-by-chapter overview of the inspiring teaching principles of Christian educator Charlotte Mason from the original Charlotte Mason authority, speaker, and columnist, Karen Andreola. With warmth and humor, Karen provides a wealth of insight, practical advice, and narratives, illustrating how educating "the Charlotte Mason way" actually works. In this book, you will discover how to recognize a "living book"; use narration; teach reading, spelling, composition, and vocabulary; appreciate great art, classical music, poetry, plays, and novels; keep a Nature Notebook for science; take part in hero-admiration for history, establish helpful habits; create a loving home atmosphere; and more.

Format: Paperback

Price: £13.00

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The immensely popular ideas of Charlotte Mason have inspired educators for many decades. Her unique methodology as written about in her six-volume series established the necessary protocols for an education above and beyond that which can be found in traditional classroom settings. In A Charlotte Mason Education, Catherine Levison has collected the key points of Charlotte Mason's methods and presents them in a simple, straightforward way that will allow families to quickly maximize the opportunities of homeschooling. With weekly schedules, a challenging and diverse curriculum will both inspire and educate your child. A Charlotte Mason Education is the latest tool for parents seeking the best education for their children.

No. of pages: 89

Format: Paperback

Price: £5.00

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Provides parents with a wealth of practical information on how to operate a home school. Issues ranging from why parents should home school to how are covered.

No. of pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Price: £4.00

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The CLASS Lesson Planner was designed to meet the particular needs of home educators. It thoroughly equips busy parents with practical help in managing their home and school. This planner is packed with suggestions for developing lesson plans, organizational techniques, and forms that permit the homeschooler to be more efficient in school administration and the creation of permanent records.

No. of pages: 121

Format: Paperback

Price: £4.50

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Curry started Easy Homeschooling for her own children in 1989, and began writing about the method in 1994.This book is packed with tips and ideas to help any home school grow in character, grace and high standards. It has been a 5-Star book since publication

No. of pages: 263

Format: Softcover

Price: £8.50

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Exhortation, Encouragement + More Easy Ideas is the subtitle of this follow up volume to Curry’s Easy Home-schooling techniques. Offers more tips and ideas for the home school.

No. of pages: 280

Format: Softcover

Price: £8.50

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This book is currently out of print. A new edition is expected in February, 2010.

For many Christian parents, the homeschooling journey leads them along a winding path with a vague destination. If they have a map at all, it may not include the path they’re on, or it is too confusing to follow. Other people on the path send them down side trails which seem to go nowhere. Finally, they just trudge forward, hoping that if they just keep moving ahead they’ll find the end of the path. For other Christian parents, though, the homeschooling journey is a wonderful adventure down a clearly marked trail. They have a trustworthy map, so they’re not dependent on the advice of whatever other traveler comes along. They walk confidently and surely down the path with the destination always in view. You’ll find nearly 250 help-filled pages packed with useful information, insights and encouragement in this book.

No. of pages: 240

Format: Paperback

Price: £12.00

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For the Children's Sake is a book about what education can be--for your child, in your home, and in your school. It is based first on a Christian understanding of what it means to be human--to be a child, a parent, a teacher--and on the Christian meaning of life. At the same time it is deeply practical. Many of the central ideas have been tried and proven true over a century in almost every kind of educational situation. The ideas are in fact so true that they can be applied equally at home, in different schools, in Africa, in the inner city, and in your own community. But they are also ideas which Susan and her husband Ranald Macaulay have tried and proven in their own family and school experience. "For the Children's Sake is a book which can help every parent and teacher awaken the young minds of their children and give them a new richness, stability, and joy for living.

No. of pages: 166

Format: Paperback

Price: £7.50

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Subtitled “How to Give Your Children the Communication Advantage in Every Area of Life�. Dr. Jeff Myers, a popular speaker at home education conferences and worldview “camps� around the country, has already demonstrated his outstanding mastery of speaking and communication skills, so he is well-equipped to share his knowledge and experience with parents. He does that in this very practical book for Christian parents that actually stretches beyond communication skills into learning motivation, teaching our children to be observant, developing a sense of purpose in our children, developing creativity, and other areas. Emphasizing the importance of early training, he shares ideas for parents to actually begin with children at the “playpen� stage. About half of the book focuses on why and how we should work on these areas with our children. This information is interspersed with numerous, but brief, activities and suggestions. Further on, three separate groups of “Project Pages� offer detailed activity ideas that we can do with our children/families. Once beyond the early years, Myers makes the book easy to use by breaking up some of this information into three separate age groups: ages 3-7, ages 8-12, and ages 13 and up. Projects progress from storytelling and puppets, through memory games and telephone skills, up to persuasive speeches and creating an advertising campaign.

No. of pages: 287

Format: Softcover

Price: £8.00

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Home schooling fathers face special challenges. Nobody knows this better than home schooling father Michael Farris. An ordained minister and father of 10, Mike offers insight and guidance from years of experience. The book is a must-have for any home school family.

No. of pages: 117

Format: Paperback

Price: £6.00

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In simple straightforward language, this book explains how you can learn to study. The book cuts across all subjects in the curriculum, selects the basic skills, and visually shows how each skill is acquired. Useful for both teachers and students in grades 7-12.

No. of pages: 116

Format: Paperback

Price: £3.50

Suggested Age: 12 and above

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Ignite the Fire! will ignite the fires in your children so what they learn is both retained and enjoyed. Terri Camp gives parents a vision for their child no matter how much or little they excel academically. She also provides a long list of ordinary household items and their usefulness in educating children. This book is full of practical, easy-to-implement ideas. Prepare to be inspired!

No. of pages: 100

Format: Softcover

Price: £7.00

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Home school parents begin to educate their children very early. This book really takes advantage of the strengths of the preschool learning years and includes lesson plans for ten subjects of study--all designed to fit into a stress-free one-hour-and-a-half each day. The curriculum covers a full two years. Great for helping new families get started in home schooling.

No. of pages: 267

Format: Paperback

Price: £25.00

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From varying backgrounds and using a variety of approaches, here you will find stories that encourage and uplift all those who believe that parents are the most important people in the education of children.

No. of pages: 220

Format: Paperback

Price: £4.50

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Thousands of home educators benefited from the practical ideas contained Catherine Levison's primer, A Charlotte Mason Education. Now Catherine takes an in-depth journey offering even more ideas for implementing the popular methods of Charlotte Mason into home schooling. In this concise and practical guide, Levison presents the key points of Charlotte Mason's methods as contained in her six-volume series. A perfect companion to her first book, More Charlotte Mason Education will continue to guide your family down an enjoyable and successful path of home schooling.

No. of pages: 196

Format: Paperback

Price: £7.50

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This audio CD lecture is designed to help parents persevere in their commitment to homeschooling. The message, by Michael J. McHugh, will enable parents to make their calling in the area of home education sure and steadfast.

Format: CD

Price: £3.00

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Review by Jane Claire + Becky Jane Lambert, best-selling authors of Five in a Row series: I was refreshed this week. I was delighted. I was touched by a book I'd kept hearing about- Pocketful of Pinecones by Karen Andreola. Written in a story form, Karen demonstrates in nearly every sentence, wonderful ways to teach, enjoy and nurture your children. But, the book is more than that. Failing the words to adequately describe how deeply this book touched my heart, I'm grateful to include my daughter's synopsis of Pocketful of Pinecones. Becky Jane writes: "A unique, surprising and utterly delightful book recently found its way into my hands. Authored by Karen Andreola, Pocketful of Pinecones is a book unlike any other. I truly cannot think of single book I've read that holds as much passion, instruction and inspiration as this unassuming paperback.

No. of pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Price: £10.00

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The first five years of a child's life are the most formative, so maximize the intellectual growth of your preschoolers with this comprehensive resource. Offering a complete readiness curriculum, the 260 weekly age-appropriate developmental activities are easy to understand, take only 10 minutes each, and use common household items. Also includes measurable parameters to profile progress and tips for solving behavioural problems.

No. of pages: 337

Format: Paperback

Price: £13.50

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One of the most comprehensive books available on the homeschooling classical education model, the Bluedorns offer a workable plan for every age and subject based on the trivium of grammar, logic and rhetoric. Beginning with who should control education--parents or the state--and the basics of classical education, we are treated to both principles and practical advice. Chapters on teaching languages, literature, approaches to homeschooling, extensive suggestions for various age levels, Scripture, and preparation for adulthood provides the information one would need to make an informed decision about classical education.

No. of pages: 637

Format: Paperback

Price: £20.00

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Called "the best first book to read"---and for good reason! Father to six homeschooled children and the founder of Christian Life Workshops, Harris helps you find your way around the fast-growing homeschool movement. His classic introduction will answer all your "who, when, where, what, how, and why" questions.

No. of pages: 214

Format: Softcover

Price: £7.00

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Three slim volumes jam-packed with practical advice and down-to-earth help give you all you need to start teaching your young children reading, writing, and arithmetic. A great alternative to workbook study by one of the leaders of the modern homeschool movement. Indispensable.

No. of pages: 88

Format: Paperback

Price: £7.00

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For over 20 years the modern homeschool movement has been changing hearts and revitalizing families all across America. Why? In his engagingly simple yet profound new book, Kevin Swanson shares the real secret of why home education has been the most successful educational movement of the 20th and 21st centuries. Upgrade has been the careful production of an author who has been in the homeschool movement since 1969. Homeschooled himself as a young child, Kevin Swanson has previously taught in public and private high school and college, and now serves as Executive Director of Christian Home Educators of Colorado. As a spokesman for the homeschool movement, he has been interviewed on Focus on the Family and The Fox News Network. After teaching Home School Introductory Seminars and speaking at home school conferences for 20 years, Kevin encapsulates the home school vision in this insightful and engaging book.

No. of pages: 211

Format: Paperback

Price: £7.50

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