Wordplay Café by Michael Kline is a set of grammar and vocabulary lessons disguised as a book of games. Truth be…
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Junior High Language Arts
Teaching the Essay from Analytical Grammar
My oldest child is in 8th grade this year and is taking a Literary Analysis class for the first time. …
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Ancient History-Based Writing Lessons from IEW
After trying many different writing programs, I am using a writing curriculum this year with my 4th and 6th grade…
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Writer’s Inc and Write for College Writing Handbooks
The GreatSource Education Group, a Houghton Mifflin Company, has produced a variety of academically useful and reliable handbooks. Chief among…
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Growing With Grammar
I have been using Growing With Grammar with my daughter and youngest son for the past three years. This review…
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Rod and Staff Grammar
When I was a child, my younger sisters studied grammar differently than I did. They learned something mysterious called ‘diagramming’…
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Read for the Heart – A Book about Books
I have yet to meet a homeschool family that did not love books. On my quest to find wonderful books…
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Institute for Excellence in Writing: TWSS
Institute For Excellence in Writing- Teaching Writing: Structure and Style DVDs By Andrew Pudewa Feeling Empowered as a Parent/Teacher Many…
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Editor in Chief
My last review I shared about my search for a grammar text that would finish our study of grammar. I…
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Daily GRAMS-Junior High/Senior High Level
Daily GRAMS (Guided Review Aiding Mastery Skills) This is one of those simple ideas that I love as a review…
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Our Mother Tongue
I really love the Rod & Staff English curriculum. It is wonderfully thorough, sequential, and it just makes sense to…
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Reading Detective Review
Some children are natural readers. They analyze, synthesize, understanding inferences, cause and affect and other advanced reading comprehension issues in a…
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