Language Arts Curriculum and Resources

This groundbreaking new writing series combines time-tested classical techniques—the imitation and analysis of great writers—with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and literature.

Susan Wise Bauer wrote Writing with Skill for students to begin to work through independently, and the text is written directly to the student. Organized by days, each "step" progressively moves students through the workbook as they move from one day to the next. Covering the basics of composition, outlining, sentence skills, beginning literary criticism of poetry and prose, writing narratives and descriptions, and researching and documenting sources, the course culminates with a final project. Using extensive literary models and step-by-step instructions on the lesson concepts, students will gain the tools needed to write with clarify and confidence.

All four levels of Writing With Ease workbook contain a complete teacher's guide...but perhaps you want additional help. You can get additional teacher's help in this book, Writing With Ease, Strong Fundamentals. This book contains teacher helps for all 4 levels of Writing With Ease. There are guidelines for approximately what a child should know at each level, how to individualize the program to your child, and additional script for you (the teacher) to help teach writing. There is also a troubleshooting section if your student is struggling. This one book will get you through all 4 years of Writing With Ease. 

Writing Tales is a comprehensive writing curriculum that teaches from a classical approach. Lessons and practice in grammar, spelling, vocabulary and handwriting are also included. Level Two is written for 4th-5th grade ages, or middle to upper grammar level students.

This is the teacher's guide for the Writing Fiction in High School course. Although the course could probably stand alone, I believe you will find the teacher's guide to be an invaluable help. Besides the answer key, it also contains a lesson plan, discussion questions (especially for the various literature excerpts and movies), and teacher helps. 

Does your teen love to write stories? Does he or she want to be a positive Christian influence in the world through fiction? Sharon Watson, author of Apologia Press's popular middle school writing curriculum JUMP IN, offers Writing Fiction [in High School], an exciting, new textbook specially designed for your homeschool, private school, or Christian teen. Writing Fiction [in High School] is written to the student in a conversational tone and requires only minimal parental/teacher guidance. It's packed with literally hundreds of age-appropriate, real-fiction examples from classics, best-sellers, and movies so students can learn how to write their own intriguing short stories or novels. Your students will study and practice essential elements of storywriting and learn to critique their own work and classmates', too. In addition, they'll discuss important ideas about fiction in their groups formed from class members, co-op classes, or friends.

Write On: The Kid Friendly, Mother Pleasing, Gentle Way to Learn to Write - A writing manual that takes the drudgery out of learning to write.

This is the test booklet for Wordly Wise 9 in which homeschool students are presented with 300 new vocabulary words, organized in manageable lessons, with 15 words per lesson and 20 lessons per book. The flexible format makes this is an easy fit into any curriculum. Lessons include: Word study with Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, suffixes, antonyms, synonyms, and analogies;  Using context and syntactic clues;  Content area reading selections;  Dictionary-style word lists; and Understanding multiple meanings.

This is the test booklet for Wordly Wise 12 in which homeschool students are presented with 300 new vocabulary words, organized in manageable lessons, with 15 words per lesson and 20 lessons per book. The flexible format makes this is an easy fit into any curriculum. Lessons include: Word study with Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, suffixes, antonyms, synonyms, and analogies;  Using context and syntactic clues;  Content area reading selections;  Dictionary-style word lists; and Understanding multiple meanings.

This is the answer key for Wordly Wise 12 in which homeschool students are presented with 300 new vocabulary words, organized in manageable lessons, with 15 words per lesson and 20 lessons per book. The flexible format makes this is an easy fit into any curriculum. Lessons include: Word study with Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, suffixes, antonyms, synonyms, and analogies;  Using context and syntactic clues;  Content area reading selections;  Dictionary-style word lists; and Understanding multiple meanings.

This is the test booklet for Wordly Wise 11 in which homeschool students are presented with 300 new vocabulary words, organized in manageable lessons, with 15 words per lesson and 20 lessons per book. The flexible format makes this is an easy fit into any curriculum. Lessons include: Word study with Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, suffixes, antonyms, synonyms, and analogies;  Using context and syntactic clues;  Content area reading selections;  Dictionary-style word lists; and Understanding multiple meanings.

This is the answer key for Wordly Wise 11 in which homeschool students are presented with 300 new vocabulary words, organized in manageable lessons, with 15 words per lesson and 20 lessons per book. The flexible format makes this is an easy fit into any curriculum. Lessons include: Word study with Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, suffixes, antonyms, synonyms, and analogies;  Using context and syntactic clues;  Content area reading selections;  Dictionary-style word lists; and Understanding multiple meanings.