Good morning, welcome to our series sharing Homeschool Resources: Literacy Skills Biographies. I would like to ask you to check out the homeschool resources I’ve shared with you and let me know if you’ve used them with your students.
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Grades 5-12, with parental supervision
This ad-supported website provides free biographies and literature including stories, books, and articles by a variety of authors from A to Z.
You’ll find a searchable collection of prominent works, along with fun quizzes that test your biographical knowledge of your favorite authors.
When you get to the site, you’ll see an alphabetical list of author names including:
- Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
- Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)
- James M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
- Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
- F. Scott Fizgerald (The Great Gatsby)
- Kenneth Grahame (The Wind in the Willows)
- Homer (The Odyssey)
- Herman Melville (Moby Dick)
- Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Peter Rabbit)
- William Shakespeare
- Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
- Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
- Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea)
Click on any name and a new page opens with the author’s biography, a collection of their works (many that you can read online), and a challenging interactive quiz.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
