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"Pinwheels [by Rooted in Language] is a comprehensive literacy program for new readers and writers . . . Within each level of Pinwheels, children learn to use their verbal language skills to strengthen their new literacy skills, layering speaking, listening, reading, and writing for a comprehensive understanding of language arts. "Across Pinwheels, students will develop Continue reading »
Foreign language educational services created for online delivery to students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Curricula are self-paced, including age-appropriate content, games, and culturally relevant activities. Graphics, videos, music, and games encourage multi-sensory learning and promote retention of material.
The Practical Proverbs series by Dara Halydier will take the student deep into God’s word. Practical Proverbs for Younger Students is a 36 lesson workbook for 4th- 8th graders that covers subjects at that maturity level such as self-esteem, anger, relationships, trust, truth, modesty, money, words, etc. After each lesson are 1 to 2 worksheets Continue reading »
Primary Phonics is made by the same publisher as Explode the Code and has a similar feel. Primary Phonics is repetitious, ensuring mastery. Multiple workbooks and storybooks are available for each level.
Progeny Press offers dozens of study guides to accompany literature for all grade levels. Each guide is presented from a Christian perspective, and asks questions related to understanding the story, vocabulary, and deeper themes. Accompanying activity suggestions are also included. These study guides are designed to allow parents a choice in the literature studied in Continue reading »
Reading Eggs is an online reading resource with hundreds of online reading lessons and thousands of e-books for 2-13 year olds who are learning to read. The content contains interactive animations, fun games, great songs and lots of rewards. It supports each child’s learning by offering individual, one-on-one lessons that allow children to progress at Continue reading »
Real Science 4 Kids is a worldview-neutral curriculum that focuses on real science and gives your kids the tools to evaluate both philosophical and religious perspectives. It was designed by a homeschool mom, Dr. Rebecca Keller, who has a PhD in Biophysical Chemistry. The curriculum covers chemistry, biology, physics, geology and astronomy. Dr. Keller's philosophy Continue reading »
REAL Science Odyssey is a secular homeschool science curriculum from Pandia Press for students grades K through 10. Elementary (Level One) topics are presented in entertaining story-like formats, followed by hands-on activities, background science information, parent instructions, labs, reading lists, journaling ideas, and websites. Level One titles: Life, Astronomy, Earth & Environment, Chemistry, and Physics. Continue reading »
This curriculum is divided into levels rather than grades and features extensive use of hands-on materials. The course is workbook-based and employs a great deal of interaction with an abacus and other counting skills. The publisher says that incorporating the abacus into the training allows the teachers “to provide a visual, auditory, and kinesthetic experience” Continue reading »
Created by Dr. Art Robinson to homeschool his children after the death of his wife, the Robinson Curriculum is known for allowing children to self-teach. Children using this curriculum are able to advance at their own rate through learning of skills and facts whether or not their parents have this knowledge - and to do Continue reading »
"Rosetta Stone Homeschool is a powerful learning tool that provides students with an immersive, interactive and engaging language-learning experience while also giving parents the tools and resources needed to track and manage student progress. Utilizing a variety of immersion techniques and administrative features, the software accelerates language learning and provides quantifiable measurements of success. Rosetta Continue reading »
Sassafras Science is a secular science program co-authored by Johnny Congo and Paige Hudson available through Elemental Science. Each program starts with an action-packed novel following the Sassafras twins as they travel around the world on an invisible zip line invented by their eccentric Uncle Cecil. The Sassafras Series Adventure books are designed for grades Continue reading »
According to its publisher, “Saxon Math is the only major math program on the market today that systematically distributes instruction, practice, and assessment throughout the academic year as opposed to concentrating, or massing, related concepts into a short period of time--usually within a unit or chapter. Saxon Math's approach to math instruction ensures that students Continue reading »
Saxon Phonics provides comprehensive solutions to teach reading that target foundational skills using a unique research-based method. The curriculum includes a multi-sensory approach that engages the visual, auditory, and tactile senses. Saxon Reading is based on current research that indicates that the most successful phonics programs include daily oral language activities, phoneme play, immediate follow-up Continue reading »
Science for High School in Your Home is designed for the three textbooks, Biology, Chemistry and Physical Science, to be the leaping off points for students to do independent research to fully understand the concepts introduced at the beginning of the week. At the end of the week, the student will explain the concept, take Continue reading »
Sequential Spelling uses spelling lists which build on words to help children spell bigger words. For example, if they can spell stand, they can spell understand and misunderstand and misunderstanding. The sequences are not based on grade level curriculum. The sequences are based on building from easy words to advanced words as from all, tall, Continue reading »
Seton Home Study School offers both curriculum resources for Catholic families and online courses. Seton's Home Study School is an accredited school offering diplomas to high school students. Seton Home Study School is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. They are also internationally accredited by AdvancED (of which SACS is a member), Continue reading »
ShillerMath is a complete Montessori-based math curriculum solution for ages 4-12 for the home. The course addresses 6 areas of learning: Kinesthetic, Visual, Auditory, Tactile, Writing, and Mental. The curriculum itself is completely scripted and involves a great deal of movement from the students and instructors.
This curriculum was specifically written for Homeschool students K through 7. Materials for each grade level are sold in a kit package. A kit contains everything needed to teach one child for an entire school year. Each kit contains a Teacher's Manual, a Student Workbook and a Audio CD. Bible-related activities, writing assignments, and sentences Continue reading »
Signing Time videos are resources for teaching your baby-elementary-aged child (even parents!) sign language. They have excellent visuals and music.
Sing, Spell, Read and Write is a learning-to-read curriculum that uses a 36-step program of carefully sequenced systematic, explicit phonics instruction to build fluent independent readers. Using look, listen, point, sing-along, and echo routines along with gross motor and fine motor activities, the program actively engages the senses and effectively reaches all types of learners. Continue reading »
Singapore Math is a curriculum modeled on the way math is taught in Singapore. Children in Singapore traditionally score highly in math when compared to those in other countries. Singapore method is demanding and relies heavily on mastery of the material. There are textbooks, workbooks, manipulative and teacher’s guides for each grade run from $9 Continue reading »
Singapore Science course materials are based on the science curricula presented in the Singapore Public schools. The elaborate curricula cover many subjects, and are based on the inquiry method of study. The publishers caution that some of the practicals are not appropriate for home schooling. Materials include texts, workbooks and teacher’s editions for various grade Continue reading »
Sonlight Curriculum provides quality, literature-rich K-12 Christian homeschool curriculum and related educational products, resources, and programs. Sonlight is a Christian company specializing in literature-based homeschool curriculum programs which selects engaging books and readers that cover topics such as Bible, history, language arts, handwriting, math, science, and more. They provide complete homeschool curriculum packages and individual Continue reading »
Spectrum offers supplemental workbooks in the following subjects: Math, Early Childhood Reading & Language Arts, Science, Social Studies and Testing. The materials are grade appropriate, but there are not materials for every grade.
Spell to Write and Read is a language arts, spelling, and grammar program inspired by The Writing Road to Reading. Spell to Write and Read works from some of the same outstanding sources that Romalda Spalding used in The Writing Road to Reading. Both systems draw from the 70 Phonograms (the sound-letter system to the Continue reading »
SpellingCity offers a fun and easy way to practice spelling words and vocabulary. Teachers and parents can create their own spelling lists, save lists, share lists or use those already provided. Students enjoy the benefit of hearing the 43,000+ words and sentences spoken by a “real” human voice. Users have a variety of options available, such as the ability to see spelling words in flashcard format, hear them spoken by a real human voice, play games with the words, and even take practice spelling tests. With each created list, a student has the option to: Teach Me, Test Me, or Play A Game. The "Teach Me" option allows students to reflect on each word of their spelling list while the list and coordinating sentence are being read aloud. The "Test Me" option allows students to take a test from any spelling list at any time. This test option gives the students the ability to hear just the word or have a sentence read. The "Play A Game" option allows students to play a variety of learning games with any spelling list. SpellingCity offers learning games such as HangMouse, Word Search, Unscramble, and many more. Continue reading »
Spelling Power gives your children the opportunity to master the 5,000 most frequently used words at their own pace — in just 15 minutes a day — using research-proven strategies. Everything you need to teach your entire family is found in the one "Big Orange Book". Spelling Power is written by a home educator for Continue reading »
This is a series of books designed to teach spelling using the Charlotte Mason method. Both British and American versions are available. Each book gives dictations out of what they describe as 'the writings of great men and women of history' using 6000 of the most frequently used words in the English language. The child Continue reading »
Stanford Online High School (OHS), accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), is a selective school for grades 7–12 that brings together top students from across the world who seek a rigorous education. Their academic program includes a wide range of AP and university-level courses, and students are placed based on ability. Continue reading »
Starfall offers both a free online phonics/reading program and a (fee-based) reading/language arts curriculum that is "magical, creative, sequential, integrated, and combines content area instruction in Social Studies and Science - that's kindergarten, the Starfall Way. Starfall uses fantasy as a springboard for motivating children to use their natural sense of wonder and curiosity to Continue reading »
Streams of Civilization is a two volume set of history stretching from Creation through 20th Century American history. The material gives both evolutionary and creationism points of view for natural history and a Judeo-Christian perspective for world political history. The texts also include a list of important words and concepts at the end of the Continue reading »
This is a complete hands-on online science curriculum for homeschoolers taught by Aurora Lipper, a former Mechanical Engineering instructor at Cal Poly University. It is designed to be totally kid-friendly so that you can just point your kids to their next science lesson. The curriculum includes videos, texts, homework, a teleclass featuring the textbook author, Continue reading »
Susan Kilbride is a homeschooling mother with a degree in biology. A few years ago she noticed that many homeschooling parents are either uncomfortable teaching their children science, or just don't have the time to do the necessary research to teach their children science. Susan wrote her first book, Science Unit Studies for Homeschoolers and Continue reading »
Tapestry of Grace is a unit study style, classical, core curriculum for History, LA, Geography, Philosophy, Fine Arts, Bible/Church History, Government. It has both printed or digital options and covers material on a four-year cycle with four classical levels.
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, step-by-step program that shows parents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read. Twenty minutes a day is all you need, and within 100 teaching days your child will be reading on a solid second-grade reading level. It's a sensible, easy-to-follow, Continue reading »
Teaching Textbooks™ is a math curriculum based on 3 easy steps: watch the lesson, do the problems, and watch a tutor explain the ones you missed. Teaching Textbooks™ were designed specifically for independent learners (they focus on teaching/explanations). From the website: A Teaching Textbook™, with its approximately 700 pages of text and 120 - 160 Continue reading »
Teaching the Trivium by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn is based on the classical method of homeschooling (taking advantage of the idea that there are three distinct learning stages in a child’s life) and that children should be taught a classical, Christian education, with its emphasis on teaching languages, logic, rhetoric, literature, and history. Included is Continue reading »
The Basic Cozy Grammar Course combines a daily video lesson with a worksheet to reinforce the lesson. It is a painless way for any parent to teach grammar, and the lessons are bite-sized to keep student frustration or boredom to a minimum. The course contains two indexed DVDs featuring: an Introduction, Tutorials, a Conclusion and, Continue reading »
Le Français Facile! Phonetic French Homeschooling Curriculum from The Great Commission Languages company. Program includes 36 lessons (stories and vocabulary), French phonograms, French songs, and French scripture memory verses. There are 400+ pages of non-consumable textbook plus 2 audio CD's. CD #1 is also an enhanced audio CD-ROM. It contains 200+ printable activity sheets, which Continue reading »
¡El Español Fácil! is a language product for both the homeschooling and general education community. Contains 400+ pages of non-consumable textbook plus 2 audio CD's. CD #1 is also an enhanced audio CD-ROM. It includes 200+ printable activity sheets, which students use as a consumable workbook. Economical for parents with multiple children. The Easy Spanish Continue reading »
The Keystone School is an online high school and middle school offering flexible and engaging school programs open for enrollment year round. Keystone offers over 120 online high school and middle school courses all supported by certified teachers. Students can enroll full-time to earn an accredited online high school diploma or part-time to supplement a Continue reading »
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