The school-at-home method, also called the traditional method, is modeled after the traditional idea of a school classroom. This method is guided by state or national standards (learning goals for what students should know and be able to do at each grade level) and by a curriculum (such as Bob Jones, Abeka, Saxon Math) with a clear scope (definition of what will be learned) and sequence (the order in which it will be learned).
This method works well for those families who want their child to be studying material similar in scope and sequence to public and private schools and value the style/roles of the traditional classroom.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a company’s whose textbooks are/have been commonly used in classrooms, now offers several homeschool curricula.
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