Let me share a few, basic resources available to home-school families. Two of the best are Donna Young and Cathy Duffy. Donna young has planners for Apologia’s Young Explorers series, Apologia Schedules, as well as planners and printables, all organized, and generally free. Cathy Duffy has reviews of a huge variety of curriculae. Look at the list under History to see the Catholic Textbook Project or Daily Geography. I use Cathy Duffy’s reviews when I’m looking for a program or textbook. For example, when I taught British Literature, I researched Stobaugh’s program at this site.
Get your kids reading. I used Kolbe Academy’s Primary Literature, which has questions for many classic books, such as Charlotte’s Web, and Misty of Chinoteague. The Elementary Literature Guide has questions for The Hobbit, My side of the Mountain, Kidnapped, and Redwall. Here is Good Books for Catholic Kids. Moody Publishers offers this list for Christian kids. Compare these lists to Scholastic’s Classic Children’s Books. Look at this Great Books List. I use teacher’s guides such as Scholastic’s guide for Charlotte’s Web, and Bridge to Terabithia. Here is the list for Scholastic Bookfiles. However, you need to search for each listing. There are no live links. Here are Glencoe’s Literature Library of teacher guides. This is likely enough information for now. Here’s hoping this is useful!
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