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

Easy Grammar Systems

Easy Grammar Systems publishes the Easy Grammar and Daily Grams teaching texts for use through high school. Students use a “hands on” approach (deleting/marking) and learn correct usage and why that usage is appropriate. Review and using information previously learned to teach new concepts help to insure mastery learning. This method is both easy to teach and easy to learn.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sing, Spell, Read & Write

Sing, Spell, Read & Write is a phonics-based program that uses a 36-step program of carefully sequenced steps to teach reading, writing, and spelling. More product information can be found here.

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.

A Reason For® Handwriting

A Reason For® Handwriting provides a fun, meaningful approach to developing effective handwriting skills. Each lesson is built around a Scripture verse chosen not only for proper letter combinations, but also inspirational content. “Border Sheets” encourage students to share God's Word with others. You'll find product information about A Reason For® Handwriting 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)

Pecci Reading Method: At Last! A Reading Method for Every Child

At Last! A Reading Method for Every Child offers a balanced approach with intensive phonics and literature-based reading instruction. This is a simple method of teaching reading, with lots of supplemental materials. Get product information here.

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