
05/27/2025
"ON THE USE OF REAL BOOKS IN THE ELEMENTARY CURRICULUM" - Christine Miller
"Let’s start with history. In the elementary curriculum, knowledge of history’s important events and persons is what children must learn: what happened, who was involved, where, and when. Traditionally, history textbooks have been used to impart this information. Children then learn the information for a test, and forget it promptly afterward. Why? Because they are facts in isolation. For the facts to “stick,” children need to build a framework for the context. Learning the story of the race to find a new passage to India, because the encroaching Turks had made the ancient Silk Road overland journey dangerous and costly – the context – gives the fact that Columbus sailed west in 1492, a place to stick, and the chance that our children will retain a much higher percentage of their history knowledge goes up."
Read more here: https://biblicalhomeschooling.org/on-the-use-of-real-books-in-the-elementary-curriculum/