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

Create! Press

Create! Press carries creative approaches to teaching creative writing and composition. Their products include the Create-A-Story game, Writing Adventures, Stepping Stones, and more.

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.

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.

Bob Books

Bob Books are organized into sets that progress in level as your child learns. They have cute stories and darling illustrations. These books are perfect for children ages 4 to 8.

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® 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.

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.

First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind

Includes scripted lessons and lovely illustrations to offer encouragement and understanding to children in grammar, copywork, narration, picture study, and other classical technique. These lessons will help develop the student's language ability and skills in oral composition.

Alpha-Phonics

Alpha Phonics is a primer for beginning readers. It features 128 self-explanatory lessons, printed in large, clear calligraphy suitable for beginning readers. You'll find product information about Alpha-Phonics here.

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)

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The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education

This classic homeschool resource is intended for teens who are ready to take charge of their own education. Written by Grace Llewellyn in the '90s, it is still relevant today. Teens will be empowered by claiming their natural ability to teach themselves and to fully personalize their education. Covers the decision to leave school, as well as many of the learning opportunities available to teens.

Homeschool Bravely: How to Squash Doubt, Trust God, and Teach Your Child with Confidence

It's time to change your perspective to transform the way you plan, teach, and homeschool. This book helps you to see homeschooling as a calling. With this mindset, you'll be able to dismiss the stress of impossible expectations. Find strategies to help you juggle the logistics of homeschooling with different ages, be a good support for a struggling learner, set realistic goals, dismiss the guilt, and weather any criticism. You can be a hopeful homeschooler! God uses all for good and can transfo...

The Outdoor Life of Children: The Importance of Nature Study and Outside Activities (Charlotte Mason Topics - Volume 2

The methods of Charlotte Mason are popular among homeschoolers. She includes nature study as a crucial element. This work explores the idea of the outdoors as a classroom for children, and gives tips on ways of teaching the sciences, history, literature, music, and art through the use of outdoor space.

Habits: The Mother's Secret to Success (Charlotte Mason Topics - Volume 1)

This work contains a selection of the writings of Charlotte Mason, a British educator. Her writings from the 1880s are still relevant today and contain ideas that can be easily and successfully incorporated into homeschooling. This book focuses on the concept of building good habits in children, why it is important, how it can be implemented, and what impact it will make on home life and homeschooling. Written from a mother's point of view, Mason's works and ideas are explained and distilled int...

Spell to Write & Read

This teacher's manual, written by a homeschool educator with experience as a professional school teacher and private tutor, shows how to teach reading the "write" way. By phonetically teaching spelling from the start as the backbone for reading, all children can be taught, regardless of learning styles, to read and spell. If your student knows how to read already, this program can improve his or her spelling. Find out more about this product here.

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