Do You Want Your Child To

Love Books, Learn More And Enjoy

The  Whole  Process?

First, it sparks and protects your child's love of reading. If your child doesn't love to read, expose them to a few of these books and watch all that change! If your child already loves reading, then these books will just spark their interest in more topics, and more books.

Second, it teaches in a fun and interactive way based on the latest research. Each curriculum includes fun activities to help reinforce the concepts and ideas in an Active-Learning way!

Third, it teaches your child Socratic Whole Book Learning™. How many books have you read that you don't remember many details from? The reason we don't retain as much from what we read is that we were all taught to read in a fragmented way. This curriculum teaches and encourages Whole Book Active Learning.

How Does It Spark and Protect My Child's Love Of Reading

We do two things. First we start with the most interesting, colorful living books in the library. These are books that don't just teach like a textbook, these are engaging stories that draw your child into the book. These are mostly Living Books.

We also like to find series of books whether they are fiction or non-fiction. The idea is to expose your child to as many different series as possible. We all grew up on these: Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and other series. Once your child gets hooked on a series, asking them to read is not a problem. They want the next book, and the next and the next. The more they read, the more skilled they become, and they move on to more advanced books.

How Does It Teach In a Fun and Interactive Way

Each curriculum comes with a series of vocabulary words and key concept/discussion questions. That's not the interactive part! Next you get the normal crossword puzzles, word searches and typical activities. These are all designed to reinforce what your child is learning.

But we take it one extra step. Actually 17 or so more steps! We include a whole series of Active Learning Activities in a FunPack. These are activities and games that are based on the latest research on the most effective ways to teach, and more importantly improve learning significantly. These are difficult if not impossible to do in a Public School setting, but work perfectly in a homeschool! So for each book, you get a whole extra FunPack full of active learning activities.

What Is Socratic Whole Book Learning™

All traditional curricula that exist today is taught using Fragmented Learning. You know what I mean: "Today we are going to learn this." This has been proven scientifically to be the absolute worst way to learn. It was introduced to Europe and then in America in the late 1800s and early 1900s to teach children to operate factory machinery. It's stuck with us ever since. It seems logical. Today, we are going to learn how to operate the meat packing machine.

The problem is that it doesn't create thinkers. Hey, who wants a thinker working in a factory. You need obedient, complient workers.

After extensive research, scientists have discovered the most effective learning methods. They called it Whole Book Learning, but what they really discovered is the Socratic Method. This method of reading a book start with your child asking questions about the book! Your child doesn't even read the first word until they have burning questions they need answered!

When they start with questions, their brain knows where to file the information they read and learn. They retain more, enjoy it more and learn a WHOLE LOT more. Plus, your child learns to be a thinker!

So each curriculum includes worksheets (and extensive instructions) on how to teach you and your child effective Socratic Whole Book Learning!

So What Do I Get?

By becoming a member of eFantasmic, you get curriculum for a gigantic collection of the most colorful, interesting library books, website articles and other libray resources, plus all the Math Repair Curriculum, plus all the Complete Science Curriculum, plus the FunPacks, plus Science Grabbers, plus the Library Video Curriculum and everything else on this website all included in your membership. You get instant access to everything for FREE!

™ - Why is Socratic Whole Book Learning trademarked? Scientists figured out this amazing new method, we figured out that what they "discovered" was known by Socrates a long time before that. So we glued the two together to tell it like it is :-)