Resources for homeschool families

Choose the resources below that help you and your student reach your goals. You do no not have to use all of the resources below. However,  these resources are suggestions.

• Baldwin's Second Year Reader
• McGuffey's First Reader (pdf) second half or
• First Readers (your choice from reader vlibrary)
• And reading report Reading Report
• Choose one of the following Spellers:
  
  • McGuffey's New Eclectic Spelling Book 31-46
  • Essentials of Spelling Grades 1-4 grade 2
  • Reeds Word Lessons Pages 1-36
  • Sander's Union Speller pages 24-47
  • Swinton's Word Primer although this is a year one course, it is alright to break it up into several years
• Spelling Lessons for use with spellers above
• Student dictionary for new words Students Keep a record of misspelled and newly learned words.
• Report Free Reading 20 Min a day from reading list below
• Scholastic Words Flashcard Maker
• Scholastic Spelling Words Games
• Manuscript Brush up then begin Cursive handwriting 2nd 1/2 of year and 12 rules for Cursive
• Crayola Cursive Writing (crayola Site)

Topics to be covered this year

• Establishing sight vocabulary flashcards Set 5 Set 6 Set 7 Set 8
• Dramatizations and interpretative or oral reading
• Use and meaning of quotation marks in reading
• Story development: beginning, middle, end
• Simple book reviews
• Listening skills
• Organizing ideas and impressions
• Alphabetizing through second letter of a word
• Silent Letter Words Phonics Charts 6-13
• Using dictionary guide words
• Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms
• Methods of word attack

Additional Topics if Time permits

• Writing independently in manuscript form
• Brief and simple letters and journals
• Narration, description, letters, poetry
• Increasing skill in handling books: table of contents, and index
• Word search Factory (Download free)

Reading

Read a book of your choice for 20 minutes.