Language Arts Curricula

Browse through resources, ideas, and curricula designed to help you teach language arts in your home, especially spelling, writing, reading, and grammar.

Resources

A Reason For® Spelling

A Reason For® Spelling combines the latest research on how children learn to spell with all the strengths of traditional programs. It teaches highfrequency base words, plus hundreds of other word forms. Values-based stories set the theme each week and help make spelling fun. You'll find product information about A Reason For® Spelling here.

Writing Strands & Reading Strands

This program is based on research which shows that there is no useable relationship between the study of grammar as an abstracted skill and the ability to communicate. Writing Strands provides quality reading, writing and speech materials for homeschoolers with children ages 3 through 18. The guided exercises in Writing Strands progress incrementally and allow students to work independently, yet provide the guidance students need to sharpen their ability to inform, persuade and entertain in writing. Helps develop successful writing skills for your child’s lifetime.

Montessori Reading

Montessori Reading is a beginning reading and writing program for elementary aged children. This series of books introduce phonetic letter sounds, phonogram combinations, reading simple sentences, and reading and writing words that name everyday objects, animals, etc. A teaching guide and a child's journal are included.

Progeny Press Study Guides for Literature

Progeny Press study guides include vocabulary exercises, comprehension, analysis, and application questions, introduction of literary terms, background information, discussion of related Biblical themes, suggestions for activities related to the reading, a complete answer key, and more. These are some of the titles available (grade range is in parentheses):

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (9-12)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (6-8)
Amos Fortune, Free Man (5-7)
Anne of Green Gables (5-8)
Bears on Hemlock Mountain (1-3)
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (4-6)
The Bridge (4-6)
Bridge to Terabithia (6-8)
The Bronze Bow (6-8)
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (9-12)5-7
Charlotte's Web (4-6)
A Christmas Carol (8-12)
Clipper Ship (1-3)
The Courage of Sarah Noble (1-3)
The Cricket in Times Square (4-6)
Crown and Jewel (4-6)
A Day No Pigs Would Die (9-12)
The Door in the Wall (4-6)
The Drinking Gourd (1-3)
Farmer Boy (4-6)
The Fellowship of the Ring (9-12)
Frankenstein (10-12)
Frog and Toad Together (K-2)
The Giver (7-9)
The Great Gatsby (9-12)
Hamlet (9-12)
Heart of Darkness (9-12)
Henry & Mudge in Puddle Trouble (K-1)
The Hiding Place (6-8)
The Hobbit (8-12)
Holes (5-8)
The Indian in the Cupboard (5-7)
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (4-6)
Introduction to Poetry: Forms and Elements (8-12)
Island of the Blue Dolphins (5-7)
Jane Eyre (9-12)
Johnny Termain (6-8)
The Josefina Story Quilt (1-3)
Julius Caesar (9-12)
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (1-3)
The Lion, Witch & Wardrobe (4-7)
Little House in the Big Woods (4-6)
Little House on the Prairie (4-6)
The Long Way to a New Land (1-3)
The Long Way Westward (1-3)
The Lord of the Flies (11-12)
Macbeth (9-12)
The Magician's Nephew (5-7)
Maniac Magee (6-8)
The Merchant of Venice (9-12)
The Minstrel in the Tower (2-4)
Miss Rumphius (1-3)
Mr. Popper's Penguins (3-5)
New Coat for Anna (1-3)
Number the Stars (5-7)
The Old Man and the Sea (9-12)
Oscar Otter (K-1)
Out of the Dust (7-9)
Out of the Silent Planet (9-12)
Ox-Cart Man (1-3)
Perelandra (9-12)
Prince Caspian (5-7)
The Red Badge of Courage (9-12)
Redwall (5-9)
The Return of the King (9-12)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (6-8)
Romeo and Juliet (9-12)
Sam the Minuteman (1-3)
Sarah, Plain and Tall (4-6)
The Scarlet Letter (9-12)
The Screwtape Letters (9-12)
The Secret Garden (6-8)
Shiloh (5-7)
The Sign of the Beaver (5-7)
Stone Fox (3-5)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (8-12)
The Swiss Family Robinson (7-9)
A Tale of Two Cities (9-12)
To Kill a Mockingbird (9-12)
Tuck Everlasting (6-8)
The Two Collars (4-6)
The Two Towers (9-12)
Wagon Wheels (1-3)
Where the Red Fern Grows (5-7)
The Whipping Boy (3-5)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (5-7)
A Wrinkle in Time (5-8)
The Yearling (9-12)

Happy Phonics

Happy Phonics uses games to teach early reading skills. Simple yet entertaining and educational, these phonics games are printed on colorful, sturdy cardstock ready to cut out. Included is a mother-friendly guidebook which contains details on how to teach phonics and reading, how to pronounce and teach the phonics sounds, how to make your own simple beginning readers, and step-by-step teaching information for each phonics sound. Happy Phonics covers beginning to advanced phonics.

Explode The Code

Explode The Code provides a sequential, systematic approach to phonics in which students blend sounds to build vocabulary and read words, phrases, sentences, and stories. Frequent review of previously learned concepts helps increase retention. Each workbook in this series contains exercises that incorporate reading, writing, matching and copying. The consistent format of the books helps facilitate independent work. This series includes primers—Get Ready for The Code, Get Set for The Code, and Go for The Code—which introduce initial consonant sounds. In addition, Beyond The Code provides a comprehension component introducing basic comprehension skills with phonetically controlled stories. You'll find product information here.

Reading Made Easy

Reading Made Easy is a phonics-based program, featuring 108 easy lessons, designed to be taught in less than 30 minutes per day. It is fully scripted and has original Christian content and stories. Includes hands-on writing and drawing activities. Reading Made Easy can be purchased here.

MCP PLAID Phonics

MCP PLAID Phonics from Modern Curriculum Press incorporates best practices for teaching essential phonemic awareness and phonics skills with lots of flexibility. Find information on these products here.

A Reason For® Reading

A Reason For® Reading offers a series of over 100 Leveled Readers that provide small increases in difficulty from level to level. These colorful books feature Scripture stories and Christian value themes. Story Guides include high-frequency words, teaching ideas, discussion questions, and much more.

First Language Lessons Level 2

This is book 2 in the First Language Lessons series. It offers scripted lessons to teach copywork, narration, picture study, and other classical techniques to help develop the student's language ability.

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Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education

Author Douglas Wilson makes the argument that education must have a foundation of religion, which informs worldview. Education is the asking and answering of questions, and learning to read and write is simply the process of acquiring the tools needed to do that.

But What About Socialization? Answering the Perpetual Home Schooling Question: A Review of the Literature

This book by Dr. Susan A. McDowell uses research, statistics, and the experiences of homeschooling families to answer questions and counter myths about homeschooling and socialization. Read through a discussion of the multiple meanings of socialization, what parents, leaders, and children have to say about the issue, and what the research shows.

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