[calusari]

I'm going to begin officially homeschooling my 6 year old autistic son at the beginning of the next school year. How do I find out what he should be learning at each grade level? I am completely new at this and don't know exactly where to begin!

[in_mommy]

To start with Welcome to our group!! You should become familiar with the laws in your state to begin with, assuming your still in KS you can find your state laws here: HSLDA | Home School Laws. Depending on the curriculum you choose some have tests that you can go by. If you are really concerned you can do standarized tests to see where your child places. There are books out there called What Your Child Needs To Know By ...... (insert whatever grade) Grade. I havent really look at those before however, maybe someone here has. He will be fine, it is all about individual learning and if he ends up falling behind a little it is no big deal. If he struggles in an area there is no need to force the issue, you take the learning to his pace and if that means you spend more or less time on certain things then so be it. It all works out in the end :-)

[BensMom]

I don't recomment that book series for the purpose of a guide. It's a cool series, but it's just one guy's opinion, and it will overwhelm you with things your kid doesn't actually neeeeed to know. Look at your state's dept of edu website or you curriculum's scope and sequence. Those are a more realistic guide, but even those can be taken with a grain of salt.

[Jewinjuwa]

I just came across this PDF and thought it might be helpful.

http://www.coreknowledge.org/mimik/m...quence_Rev.pdf

Lots of good info and some good guidelines to remember.