Homeschool Resources: Language Arts, Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension

Good morning, welcome to our series sharing Homeschool Resources: Language Arts, Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension. I would like to ask you to take a look at these resources and let me know if you’ve used these with your children.

Actively Learn English Language Arts

Actively Learn ELA is an award-winning digital curriculum that drives student engagement through deeper learning with flexible features and comprehensive resources that empower parents to deepen students’ comprehension and customize their approach to learning anytime, anywhere.

Mr. Nussbaum: Language Arts– Grades PreK-9, with parental supervision

This ad-supported website is a massive archive of all kinds of learning activities and resources for every school subject. For this review, we are focusing on the huge variety of free language arts games, printables, reading comprehension activities, grammar editing, spelling help, and other resources.
When you get to the site, you will see a list of activities that include:

Language Arts Games – Play games that teach sentence and paragraph editing, spelling, punctuation, and writing basics.
Online and Printable Reading Comprehension Worksheets – Read a paragraph or essay on any topic you select and answer multiple-choice questions about it. Use either the online or offline versions. Topics include the American Revolution, the Silk Road, Galaxies, Lewis and Clark, Peregrine Falcons, etc.
Story Units – Read 3 different online stories and enjoy the interactive activities that further learning.
Sentence Surgeons & Paragraph Paramedics – Learn to be an editor! Correct sentences for spelling, grammar, and punctuation online.
Cloze Reading – Fill in the blanks in a sentence or paragraph with the correct word from a vocabulary bank.

Other activities teach and/or remediate spelling, alphabetical order, parts of speech, punctuation, and more. Many of these activities will allow you to choose either printable or online exercises.

When you are through with the Language Arts section, use the menu at the top of the page to find activities for math, geography, science, etc.

Wordly Wise i3000

Wordly Wise i3000™ provides direct academic vocabulary instruction to develop the critical link between vocabulary and reading comprehension through robust activities, social sharing, and interaction, and differentiated instruction within the digital application.

Diane Flynn Keith: Rainbows, Shamrocks and Leprechauns Grades PreK-8 approximately – and fun for the whole family!

With St. Patrick’s Day only a week away, we are highlighting some fun ideas from Diane Flynn Keith’s websites for cross-curricular celebrations – many of which you can do last minute!
This website has a wonderful article by veteran homeschool mom, Fran Wisniewski offering a fun array of St. Patty’s Day arts, crafts, and activities for ages 6-14 that cover math, science, language arts, and much more!
And for preschoolers, St. Patrick’s Day Fun for Preschoolers has an article with a few suggestions for some fun learning activities you can do with the little ones. Try Diane’s family’s recipe for a festive beverage today – a “Darby O’Gill”!

Reading Assistant Plus +

Reading Assistant Plus uses patented technology to listen as the student reads each word aloud and delivers immediate support whenever a learner struggles with or mispronounces a word.

iHomeschool Network/Reading Lists– All grades; children with parental supervision

Here is a resource you’ll love! The iHomeschool Network has earned our praise for developing the reading list of all reading lists! They explain: “Sometimes it’s difficult to sort through all of the massive amounts of information to discover what is truly useful to our homeschooling children or our own selves. With so many resources available both online and in everyday chatter among homeschooling families, internet searches, Pinterest and chat groups it can be hard to narrow down to what works versus what doesn’t. That’s why we wanted to bring you our favorite reading lists for homeschoolers.”
They have gathered their top reading lists and sorted them by relevant categories and organized them alphabetically! When you visit the website, scroll down through the various categories to locate a myriad of reading lists. Choose from: