Rapid Response: Fast Answers From The Thinking Dad
Jul 3, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min · 16 segments
Feeling overwhelmed teaching Language Arts at home? You’re not alone. Join **Yvette Hampton** and homeschooling expert **Andrew Pudewa** for practical, Christ-centered guidance every homeschool mom…
Andrew PudewaGuest
Yvette HamptonHost
I love to write, which is kind of funny because I don't write a lot, but I love writing.
That's been one of my subjects since I was a little girl that I've always enjoyed and found to be fairly easy to learn.
But I will say, and we will talk about this maybe later this week, sentence diagrams, parsing out sentences.
So we'll talk about maybe the necessity of that and whether or not it is necessary.
But let's kind of walk through all the different aspects of language arts, because when we think about language arts, it's the first question that I think every new homeschool mom asks.
Well, one thing I would say in response to your comment there is it is much easier for a homeschool mom to teach a child to read.
than for any teacher, no matter how much training they have, to teach a whole room full of little kids to read at the same time.
Most of the teachers who have been through a teacher training program, degree, whatever, they may have some theoretical training about reading, but they get into a classroom and they have this huge spectrum of aptitude and they may or may not even have good materials or methodology to do it.
So you are much, much better off trying to teach your child to read not really knowing how you're going to do it than putting them in a school where some other teacher is going to have to try and do that in mass.
I love to write, which is kind of funny because I don't write a lot, but I love writing.
That's been one of my subjects since I was a little girl that I've always enjoyed and found to be fairly easy to learn.
But I will say, and we will talk about this maybe later this week, sentence diagrams, parsing out sentences.
So we'll talk about maybe the necessity of that and whether or not it is necessary.
But let's kind of walk through all the different aspects of language arts, because when we think about language arts, it's the first question that I think every new homeschool mom asks.
Well, one thing I would say in response to your comment there is it is much easier for a homeschool mom to teach a child to read.
than for any teacher, no matter how much training they have, to teach a whole room full of little kids to read at the same time.
Most of the teachers who have been through a teacher training program, degree, whatever, they may have some theoretical training about reading, but they get into a classroom and they have this huge spectrum of aptitude and they may or may not even have good materials or methodology to do it.
So you are much, much better off trying to teach your child to read not really knowing how you're going to do it than putting them in a school where some other teacher is going to have to try and do that in mass.
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