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Grade level lesson plans for adding art to education
Teachers’ guides to the Percy Jackson books by Rick Riordan
Lesson plan to study American Girl books on Addy, escaped slave during Civil War
Free historical costume patterns for 18 inch American Girl dolls
Description of a co-op lesson plan on Felicity (American Revolution)
American Girl paperdolls to print out or play with online
Video clip of performance of excerpt of Beowulf in the original Anglo-Saxon
Reading comprehension quizzes for K-8 run by Sylvan Learning
Study guides from William and Mary gifted education program---most are for purchase, but in the middle of the page are a few available as a free download
Unit study on comic book superheroes (pdf download) from the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
List of common English grammar errors
A Free Access Digital Library of Illuminated & Illustrated Books
Holt Elements of Reading online site, for 6th grade and up---novel guides, author biographies, vocabulary resources, media information, writers’ models
English Grammar Online...the fun way to learn English!
Books available to read online.
Online Fairy Tale Unit Study designed for 4th - 5th grades.
The Youth F.I.L.M. Project presents free, downloadable curricula developed from popular books adapted into theatrically released movies.
Giggle Poetry, online poetry writing course for kids
Glencoe free literature guides
Guesthollow’s list of homeschool links
Grade level book lists and more
The only website featuring literature and stories about homeschoolers. Includes a directory with reviews by homeschoolers, study guides,ideas for further study, and forums where visitors can discuss the books on the site.
Literature-based unit studies including helps for Five in a Row
Templates to do lapbooks on American Girl doll books
English and language arts resources, Advanced Placement Courses and Curriculum, Old Fashioned Textbooks, Foreign Language
Grammar tutorial older/adult
Katie’s Trunk and Changes for Felicity (looking at the American Revolution with children’s literature lesson plan)
Ideas for teaching reading and literature
Laura Ingalls Wilder website, part of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
A chart converting lexile measures into grade/month format (pdf download)
Writing relevant research papers
High school English resources
A review site for public and school librarians on “scary” and horror books for kids
Online literature studies, from very young on up
Extensive listing of literature websites, study units, author info, etc.
Booklist for books set in all 50 states (read across the country)
Modern Shakespeare resources, sonnet translations & study guides online
PASS curricula on a wide variety of topics from the state of Florida, originally designed for high school exceptional students, but make good material for younger kids without special needs as well due to presentation of the concepts in simpler language.
“Parallel Alternative Strategies for Students (PASS) volumes are unique, supplemental materials written to help students with various learning needs achieve success in the classroom. The student volumes are presented in an easy-to-understand format for students seeking a standard diploma. The information is written by the Curriculum Improvement Project team in a manner that offers more understanding in less time. The PASS materials provide resources for teaching courses without changing essential content. The teacher guides give exciting teacher suggestions to stimulate student interest with thought-provoking activities. These inexpensive, ready-to-use resources may be reproduced or used as a workbook.”
PinkMonkey.com is a "G" rated study resource for junior high, high school, college students, teachers and home schoolers. What does PinkMonkey offer you? The World's largest library of free online Literature Summaries, with over 460 Study Guides / Book Notes / Chapter Summaries online currently, and so much more. No more trips to the book store; no more fruitless searching for a booknote that no one ever has in stock!
Pinneo's primary grammar of the English language: for beginners By Timothy Stone Pinneo, grammar text from 1854
Practical lessons in the use of English for primary and grammar schools by Mary Frances Hyde on Google Books, an 1908 grammar textbook for children
Free books that are in the public domain (the copyright has expired)
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Rand McNally’s Primary Grammar and Composition by William D. Hall, 1897
A different ebook from their collection each week
Literature guides for all ages
Scholastic.com search engine
Scholastic book discussion guides
Using Scrabble to reinforce learning goals, spelling and vocabulary
Scott Foresman grammar and writing resources for Grades 1–6
Seussville site (has low bandwidth and high bandwidth options)
SpellingCity: the ultimate online spelling program.
Starfall early reading program
Teaching resources from Random House Publishers
Teaching resources from Harper Collins publishers
Teaching resources from Lerner Publishing Group
Teaching resources from Penguin Publishing Group
Educational resources from Simon and Schuster publishers
Online children’s literature collection (The Baldwin Project)
Greek and Roman lit, history, language, etc
The Easy Essay on essay and other writing
KISS grammar—“ KISS Grammar is a simple, specific set of grammatical terms (concepts) and a sequence for teaching them.” Printable workbooks from 2nd grade and up by a college English teacher
Matching readers with texts
Streaming audio of history stories, some fairy tales and a couple Bible stories
Uncle Orson’s writing class from Orson Scott Card
Online games and word lists from Wordly Wise 3000
Interactive writing prompts, lessons and resources
