Resources for homeschool families

Materials & Resources Report Broken Links

• Badwin's Third Year Reader or
• McGuffey's Second Reader and
• Reading Lesson report
• Choose one of the following:
  
  • McGuffey's New Eclectic Spelling Book pages 47-59 or
  • Essentials of Spelling Grades 1-4 grade 4 or
  • Sander's Union Speller pages 48-63
  • Reeds Word Lessons Pages 36-72
• and Spelling Lessons
• Student dictionary for new words."Pupils should be required to keep a list of the words which they misspell, and to rewrite them frequently, in sentences and separately (Reed, Alonzo, 1896)."
• Continue Cursive writing practice or Brushup
• Crayola Cursive Writing (crayola Site)
• Scholastic Words Flashcard Maker
• Scholastic Spelling Words Games
• Scholastic Spelling Words Games
• Free Reading 20 Min each Day and report
• The American Spelling Book, by Noah Webster

Topics to be covered this year

• Reading prose and poetry aloud
• Silent reading: see reading list below Book Reports
• Oral presentations: reporting experiences orally with accuracy
• Alphabetizing through the third letter of a word (optional practice)
  
• Dictionary skills
• Developing word-attack methods
• Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms and Homophones
• Concept of paragraph
• Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks
• Writing short, original stories and poems
• Postwriting skills: editing and proofreading
   

Additional Topics if Time permits

• Increasing indexing skills
• Complex Consonant Clusters

Extras

• Spelling Rules Worth Knowing
• 12 rules for Cursive
• Spell Checker
• Wordsearch Factory (Download free)
• Typing practice
• Spelling and phonics practice from the U.K.