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The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine offers homeschoolers a variety of resources and encouragement as well as ways to learn about the latest and greatest educational resources out there. The Old Schoolhouse is a glossy, full-color magazine, produced quarterly, packed with information and articles that homeschoolers enjoy reading. The magazine often features works written or created by Continue reading »
This writing curriculum takes an original and highly creative path to teaching elements of literature and creative writing. In this course students learn characterization, plot, setting, theme and conflict--all the traditionally taught elements of literature, but not taught in the traditional manner. These elements are learned in the context of writing their own adventure novel. Continue reading »
This extensive collection of texts, workbooks, tests and recordings presents the history of the world from ancient times to the modern ages as a series of narratives. Told in a straightforward, engaging style that has become Susan Wise Bauer's trademark, The Story of the World series covers the sweep of human history from ancient times Continue reading »
The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer is designed to give your child "an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school with the step-by-step instructions in The Well-Trained Mind, resulting in the ability to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning."
The Write Foundation is a Christian writing curriculum for ages 11-17 written by a veteran home educator and tested extensively in individual and group settings. It has proven effective in enabling average writers to improve their writing skills, as well as energizing reluctant writers. The entire system will teach your student how to effectively plan Continue reading »
The Writer’s Jungle is much more than daily lesson plans or writing ideas. It takes you inside the writer’s world. The first nine chapters explain the necessary steps to brave writing, such as, how to read quality literature and discover the principles that make it work, what writer’s voice is and how to cultivate your Continue reading »
Thinkwell's multimedia products in math, science, and social science integrate technology, art, and video with great teaching to produce a new path to success for students.
Time Travelers History Study Series focuses on American history from new world explorers to the Great Depression (WWII is in development as of 2010) using hands on projects to facilitate transfer of learning. The materials contain brief subject narratives, along with many activities and teacher’s guides. Teacher Helps include tips for preparing and organizing, as Continue reading »
Time4Learning.com is an online education program that teaches preschool through twelfth-grade curriculum in an interactive, online environment. Time4Learning combines 1000+ animated lessons, printable worksheets and graded activities to teach math and language arts lessons correlated to state standards. Science, social studies, and art are also provided as bonuses for most grades.
Times Tales is a story-based mnemonic for memorizing multiplication tables. The system includes a large flip book and small flip book to help students learn the multiplication tables from 3x through 9x.
Torchlight is a literature-based, secular curriculum for learners ages 4-13. The curriculum is delivered digitally, with each PDF including daily and weekly lesson plans with prep pages for 36 weeks of instruction. Torchlight also uses specially curated books that can be purchased online, at a local bookstore, or borrowed from your local library. Parents are Continue reading »
This course is literature-based and designed for Christian education. The materials are based on novels and integrate the separate parts of language arts: spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and writing, as well as critical thinking and communication. As the readings are completed, students complete worksheets, writing assignments and engage in supplemental activities. The teachers materials are included Continue reading »
TRISMS is designed to teach independent critical thinking and unit study skills. Students direct their own learning with guidance from parents. Students read literature, biographies, historical fiction, cultural studies, and most varieties of reference materials. Course materials come in packages that cover major eras of human history. Each package contains guidance for students and assistance Continue reading »
Typesy Homeschool is an all-online program with curricula for kids aged 6 and up to help users become proficient in touch typing. Typesy Homeschool gives parents complete visibility and easy control – you are the teacher of your own mini homeschool class. Typesy stores everything in the cloud, and all your computers automatically stay in Continue reading »
This is a wonderful typing program with a variety of levels. This program uses the latest technology to provide an educational, entertaining, and motivating experience for beginners and intermediate - even advanced typists, with creative learning themes, fast moving, arcade-style games, and educational learning plans. Typists may learn in English or Spanish. It has programs Continue reading »
Typing Pal is a typing program for ages six through adult. There's a free demo version and two levels of personal licenses: Individual (1 profile) and Home (3 profiles; comes with user management and family supervision).
Under the Home offers studio art, art history, music, mathematics, reading, writing, prose, and poetry for grades K-1 as well as science, geography, and history for grade 1. They will be adding grades 2-5 over the years 2017 & 2018. As of January 2017 the price is $30/year.
Unforgettable Languages are foreign language learning courses offered in 30 different languages. Vocabulary is taught using the Linkword Method, meaning that you will use visual tricks to link the word to a familiar English word to facilitate learning vocabulary. "The Linkword Method is based on the principle that the human mind much more easily remembers Continue reading »
This program uses new, interactive, video-based strategies to teach Algebra and Geometry from start to finish. The main components are the “videotext” (the video lessons), and a workbook. The video serves as the textbook. Each module is around $100 and there are multiple modules for each course in Algebra and Geometry. Entire courses can also Continue reading »
Visual Latin is a video-driven Latin homeschool curriculum taught by veteran Latin teacher Dwane Thomas. It’s quite unique. Three short videos are paired with three sets of worksheets to guide students from grammar concepts, to practice sentences, to reading in Latin. The goal is to enjoy learning Latin and strengthen students' understanding of English grammar Continue reading »
Visual Link™ Spanish is designed to teach students to speak in complete sentences and to become fluent in conversational Spanish. The computer software course consists of interactive computer based Spanish lessons that use a combination of visual and audio features to interactively teach Spanish sentence structure.
The Weaver Curriculum is a unit-based, Bible-centered homeschool curriculum for grades PreK-12th. The curriculum uses the same daily Bible theme as a foundation and then creates lessons for each student. Students are then studying the same main subject at the same time with individual lesson assignment geared to each student's grade level. For example if Continue reading »
The Well-Planned Day line of homeschool/household planners from Home Educating Family Publishing are printed and e-book formats. For 2011 they are adding planner accessories. Planners are available for moms, middle schoolers and high schoolers. All versions contain scripture, short articles to train or encourage, and of course calendars in several options.
Wild Math is a secular math program focusing on integrating the outdoors and natural materials to teach math concepts. Grade level programs are written for grades K through 5th, with each level designed to be completed in an academic school year. This program is a digital product with samples available for each grade level. There is a list Continue reading »
Winston Grammar does away with the traditional grammar textbook, lecture approach, and heavy emphasis on memorization. Instead, it gives students a set of color-coded clue cards and a book of exercises, which together generate multi-sensory activities. These activities teach grammar sentence diagramming. Students do this through moving, hearing, seeing, and speaking. Each kit has a Continue reading »
Working from the idea that literature communicates powerfully to young minds, WinterPromise developed a curriculum that is strongly literature-based. This offers parents the opportunity to do less teaching and more "learning together" with their children. This "Learning Together" method has the additional benefit of requiring almost no preparation for the parent, preserving as many moments Continue reading »
This curriculum addresses what the publisher calls the "growing consensus among educators regarding the need for direct teaching of academic vocabulary in a systematic program." The course involves kindergarten through grade 12 vocabulary series that includes reproducible tests and an online test generator. The entire program introduces over 3,000 words, and exercises become more challenging Continue reading »
WriteShop is designed to teach composition skills to junior high and high schoolers in a step-by-step manner. Students learn the four most common kinds of writing—descriptive, informative, narrative, and persuasive (essays)—by means of the following basic building blocks: Brainstorming, Writing Revising, and Editing. This is a two-level program consisting of WriteShop I and WriteShop II. Continue reading »
This program is a comprehensive K-6 total language arts program in which all elements of the language are integrated in spelling, writing, and reading lessons. According to the publishers' materials: "the instruction is explicit, systematic, interactive, diagnostic, and multi-sensory." The program focuses on phonograms, or the 70 letters and letter combinations that represent the minimum Continue reading »
Writing Strands is a full language arts program includes writing, reading, and speaking but only focuses on grammar on a “need to know” basis. The introductory level of the course focuses on basic, organizational, descriptive, and creative writing, while the higher levels concentrate on preparing students for high school and college level writing. The courses Continue reading »
Writing With Ease provides one on one instruction in writing. The course materials allow a parent to provide writing instruction based on the content of the books. There are workbooks that accompany the instruction to work on grammar.
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