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An Overview of Train up a Child Publishing

Train up Child Publishing is a literature based Charlotte Mason approach to homeschooling. It uses the Bible and great children’s literature to teach Bible, History/Reading, Science, Language Arts, and Fine Arts together. This is an overview of all their curriculum options.

An overview of Train up a Child Publishing - a literature based Charlotte Mason approach to homeschooling using the Bible and great children’s literature to teach Bible, History/Reading, Science, Language Arts, and Fine Arts together. A review from The Curriculum Choice

What is Train up a Child Publishing?

At Train up a Child Publishing, we believe that the foundation of homeschooling is Christ-centered mentoring and discipleship between parents and their children. With that foundation, our vision is to help you bring your children’s homeschooling education to life, while still balancing your daily responsibilities. 

Train up a Child Publishing provides a Charlotte Mason-inspired homeschool curriculum, written from a Biblical worldview. We use excellent children’s literature instead of dry textbooks to teach history, science, language arts, and fine arts. 

And why do we use “real books” instead of textbooks, you ask?

Let me ask you: What do you remember from your school days? Snippets from your textbooks? Or the stories you read? Stories about heroic men, women, and children who believed in something bigger than themselves. Who sacrificed for others. Who stood for something.

Those kinds of stories are the ones that make learning stick. And those are the kinds of stories you’ll find in our curricula.

From the Train up a Child Publishing home page

What is Subject Integration?

The fact that Train up a Child Publishing combines the teaching of history, science, language arts, and fine arts is called subject integration.

An example of subject integration is as follows: while you’re studying the history of each period, you’re also naturally weaving in its science, art, and music…and using the same books to teach language arts.

And integrating subjects, rather than artificially separating each subject, aligns better with the way our kids’ brains naturally learn. Consequently, children learn better when we integrate subjects naturally along with using different senses as a part of the learning.

No more paying for a separate curriculum for each subject!

 And everyone can study the same thing at the same time, each at his or her own level!

How Does Train up a Child Teach History?

Like most literature-based curricula with a Christian worldview, Train up a Child Publishing studies history chronologically, beginning with Creation.

Most curriculum rotates through history every three or four years.  While they initially tried that history cycle with their kids, unfortunately, by the time the Ancient period rolled around again – their younger kids didn’t remember a thing!

So Train up a Child follows a different history rotation with their curriculum.  They repeat the history cycle each year.

After a year, even your youngest children will recall that the Middle Ages were the time of kings, knights and castles.  They will remember enough the next year to be able to connect new information to the old information…which is the way we learn.

Year builds upon year, layer by layer.

You go deeper and deeper into each time period – you just do it over the years instead of studying one period at a time for years on end.

The lively pace of moving to fresh material more quickly keeps students engaged and helps them (and their teachers) better understand the flow of history.

Three Different Curriculum Options

1. Unit Program Tools

You can choose the unstructured Unit Program Tools, where we provide a framework of historical units with science, language arts, and fine arts naturally woven in. They teach you how to choose spelling, vocabulary words, copy work, and teach grammar using our Charlotte Mason-inspired methods, using excellent children’s books that you procure.

This curriculum allows you to create your own lessons from their suggestions, move at your own pace, and go down as many rabbit trails as you want!

Read more about the Unit Program Tools here.

An overview of Train up a Child Publishing - a literature based Charlotte Mason approach to homeschooling using the Bible and great children’s literature to teach Bible, History/Reading, Science, Language Arts, and Fine Arts together. A review from The Curriculum Choice

2. Daily Lesson Plans

Or, if you prefer to have open-and-go daily lessons in history, science, language arts, and fine arts, you’ll prefer our open-and-go Daily Lesson Plans. In these all lessons have been created for you. We tell you what to say and when to say it and give you lists of the books and supplies you need per week. 

Read more about the Daily Lesson Plans here.

An overview of Train up a Child Publishing - a literature based Charlotte Mason approach to homeschooling using the Bible and great children’s literature to teach Bible, History/Reading, Science, Language Arts, and Fine Arts together. A review from The Curriculum Choice

A note about World View: “Train up a Child Publishing strives to help you homeschool Biblically. From beginning the year studying God’s creation of the world, including Creation Science rather than evolution, to the carefully curated books they recommend. Their curriculum underscores the truth of the Biblical account. Both their Unit Programs and Daily Lesson Plans underscore the truth of The Bible, all the way through.” 

3. High School Courses

For High School Students they have all the Language Arts, History, and English Elective courses you need. {Also taught from a Biblical worldview.} Additionally, the high school courses are customizable,  literature-based, and offer an optional Honors track.

Read more about the High School Courses here.

An overview of Train up a Child Publishing - a literature based Charlotte Mason approach to homeschooling using the Bible and great children’s literature to teach Bible, History/Reading, Science, Language Arts, and Fine Arts together. A review from The Curriculum Choice

MORE FROM TRAIN UP A CHILD PUBLISHING

Looking for more? Check out these other Train up a Child Publishing Reviews here at The Curriculum Choice:

  • Train up a Child Publishing Daily Lesson Plans Curriculum by Diana
  • Train up a Child Publishing by Ashley

Filed Under: Age, Bible, Charlotte Mason, Elementary, Grammar, Handwriting, High School, History & Geography, Junior High Language Arts, Language Arts, Middle School, Phonics, Poetry, Reading Tagged With: Charlotte Mason, written by Heidi Ciravola

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