Resources for homeschool families

Readers

• Baldwin's Fifth Year Reader or New National Fourth Reader
• Reader report form Use to report on each days' reading lesson
• Free Reading (from list below) and report. 20 Min a day.
• Scholastic Words Flashcard Maker
• Scholastic Spelling Words Games

Spelling Choose one of the following:

• McGuffey's New Eclectic Spelling Book Pages 74-90
• Sander's Union Speller pages 76-89
• Swinton' Word Book
• Reeds Word Lessons Pages 108- 145
• Spelling Lessons report form for use with spellers above.
• 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)."
• Spelling Rules Worth Knowing

English Lessons and Handwriting

• Graded Lessons in English 101 lessons 1st half of 2 year course
• Cursive handwriting

Topics to be covered this year

• Silent and oral reading
• Types of literature
• Presenting original plays
• Listening skills
• Dictionary use for word meaning
• Common homonyms Homophones and homographs
• Synonyms and antonyms
• Using a thesaurus
• Plurals and possessives
• Kinds of sentences
• Parts of sentences
• Writing outlines
• Paragraph writing (for educator) for child
• Writing letters, Letter Writing interactive game, stories, reports, poems, plays
• Preparing a simple bibliography
• Proofreading skills Proofreading Proofreading symbols
• Parts of a newspaper
• Using study materials: keys, tables, graphs, charts, legends, library catalogs, index, table of contents, reference materials, maps

Extras

• Wordsearch Factory (Download free)

• Grammar Zoo