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I use McGuffey in my school,in the Individual Tuition Unit where I run the program. I have made some videos to go along with the readers - they are read-along, so the student can see the text, hear my voice, and read along aloud or silently. I have also made separate spelling videos to accompany the readers. So far I have finished Book One, and part of Book Two. You can find these listed on the index page for my YouTube videos. They are free, use them as you wish.

Hi, I made a series of videos for my own teaching cursive handwriting, and have uploaded them to YouTube. I use the letterforms I was taught in South Africa in the 1970's. I also studied lettering at the City and Guilds of London Art School. In the videos I write with a steel nib, as this made the shapes clearer. My students have been able to learn from these videos with minimal input from myself, although I do look over their work and correct errors. I also make a point of circling their best efforts. The videos are free, use them as you wish.

You might find the free series of YouTube videos for cursive I made for my own teaching practice are useful - Each letter gets one video, and there is a separate lesson for the Capital Letters. The material is free, use it as you wish. I have found that my students can learn quite well from these, they seem to find the instructions clear.

I made a series of videos to avoid the repetitive aspects of teaching cursive - you can find them on my youtube channel index page. I use these in my computer lab, for students who join the school but who have never been taught cursive - they attend sessions until they can master it. I simply supervise their output, and annotate and correct their work- but the teaching itself is done via video. The videos teach the way I was taught cursive at school in South Africa in the 1970s. When using the videos, or when teaching handwriting in general, it is really helpful to circle the best letters the student forms - positive reinforcement goes further here than negative - or the well-formed parts of letters, if you cannot find a whole well formed letter. In my School, where I teach in the Senior Department, I visit the Junior School once a week, and teach cursive to the two upper classes. (Year 5 and 6 - 9 and 10 year olds). The expectation is that the students will have the ability to write in cursive by the time they reach Senior School. I don't use the videos in these classroom session, but the whiteboard, the old fashioned way. I also write sample letters in the students' books.

The English language resources and maths I have made for my own teaching - I teach in a room with eight computer consoles, and deal with students from a variety of year groups, who come to me for differing numbers of hours per day - so I can't teach a 'class' as such. My solution was to video the courses I wanted them to study, and formalise the work they need to do within the videos themselves. My job then changes to monitor ( as a result, I have minimal behaviour issues) and can give much more personal attention to each student where it counts - i.e. when they encounter difficulty. These videos could easily be used by a home school parent.

Hello, I have produced a series of videos for use in my classroom practice - where I teach small groups of pupils a diverse range of subjects. These are teaching videos, and the student is expected to produce work, which I then mark. I ring a bell, indicating the student should pause the video, and perform the assigned task. I mark their work immediately it is completed, and my teaching time is used for correcting and explaining work to individual students, not delivering the actual lesson material. I recently have started to produce two texts I have previously adapted - Kerl's 'English Composition' - and also Kellogg's 100 Lessons ( The book with sentence diagrams). I have tried to use Kellogg's original text, but it is too old fashioned in appearance for modern students, even though the content is excellent. I have also recorded McGuffey's first reader, and made separate spelling test videos to go along with it. I am part way through recording the second reader. This will also have separate spelling tests. I have not yet put my Kellogg material on YouTube, but will do so when I have sufficient material recorded. I find the Kellogg work helps some students immensely when it comes to writing their own compositions - as you can say - why not insert a clause here, or a noun phrase there....the students write much richer prose after studying Kellogg. I have also made a series of spelling videos - using Osgood's text - where the student self-marks their work, and repeats each lesson until both spelling and definitions ( these I check orally) are correct. I only give definitions for words I think will not be familiar to my students. There are some similar videos for multiplication. The index to the videos is here ( English language material is near the bottom of the left hand column) The material is on YouTube,and is free, use it as you wish. Evan der Millner

I made some videos teaching cursive - which my students use, with supervision: You can find the playlist here: The vids are free. Enjoy.

I'm currently recording McGuffey's readers - these are on YouTube Here is the link to the playlist as it stands: Enjoy

You might find the new free course I am putting up on YouTube useful as part of a homeschool Latin language education project: The London Latin Course It is accessible for all age groups.

Hello. After producing some 300 episodes on YouTube as an audio-visual course for Latinum in Latin only, which has had a very positive reception, I have decided to retrace my steps somewhat, and re-teach the material, using English, as over 70% of the users of the course are from the USA and England, and many users in other countries can use English. The course is totally free - the youngest regular user of the Latin-only course is an addicted 2 year old (His father tells me he regularly asks to 'watch Latin', and apparently he his picking things up). Here is the link to the Latinum course on YouTube: The playlist with the English language course is clearly marked. The course has extended oral exercises, that build more systematically than the exercises in Adler, although I am following the structure of Adler's textbook, so that students can use the lessons in the textbook as a reference. I am also posting my own teaching notes as google documents, linked to lessons where appropriate. I hope some of you may find this new (free) resource of some use, either as a stand alone course, or as an adjunct to material you are already using. Molendinarius.