Likewise, DoodleBob touched on another factor indirectly.
Learn your child’s learning style.
There are three basic ones: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.
I have two kids who were highly visual learners. They could read something and about memorize it. I’m that way, too.
My youngest I thought was auditory but I’m now convinced she’s more kinesthetic. When she was taking Russian in college, she would grab a big white board and a bunch of colored dry erase markers and sit there and conjugate her verbs, and nouns, and for calc, she would write out her derivatives, all in various colored markers.
She aced tests when she studied that way.
I remember once when she was little I showed her the word *comb* and she kept saying,*I don’t know. I don’t know.* So on a whim I spelled it for her, and she says *Oh, comb.*
Auditory I don’t get at all, but I adjusted her class work to fit with her learning style and she excelled.
Thank you for sharing this. My neighbor has a child who was in the NICU and wants to homeschool. I will pass this along.