Good evening welcome to our series sharing Homeschool Resources: Math & Language Arts. Take a look at the websites being shared and let me know if you’ve used them with your students. If so what did you think of the resources and why?
Redbird Mathematics & Language Arts – Exclusive Savings
Redbird Mathematics and Redbird Language Arts & Writing from McGraw Hill Education is a highly personalized, adaptive online curriculum developed by Stanford University and uses advanced education technologies to blend instruction, interactive practice, and innovative analysis.
Grades 3-12, with parental supervision
At this archived website, you can explore an engaging timeline of the history of the English Language, how it developed, and why it has changed and evolved. Through images and text, you’ll discover how English has developed “through invasion, invention and global expansion.”
When you get to the site, explore the eight ages of the English language that include:
- The Anglo Saxon Invasions – 449 AD
- The Viking Raids Begin – 787 AD
- The Norman Conquest – 1066
- The Resurgence of English 1200 – 1400
- The Invention of the Printing Press 1476
- The Renaissance – 1500 to 1650
- The Colonization of the New World – 1600s
- The Industrial Revolution – 1760 to 1830
In each stage, you simply click on images in a colorful drawing to learn various aspects of the history of the language through text. You’ll gain an understanding of the origins of words, and discover what inquiring minds what to know. There are fun facts and explanations of phrases and idioms too.
Words and Their Stories is an award-winning, game-based online interactive Vocabulary Curriculum from FableVision Learning that teaches the fascinating stories behind words.
Lexipedia: Interactive Dictionary & Thesaurus
Grades K-12, with parental supervision.
Cool interactive Dictionary/ Thesaurus website.” A great resource for home schooling families. It has five language options to choose from. You can search for words in English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch and Italian.
Just submit a word and it will give you the nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, fuzzynyms, synonyms and antonyms along with the meanings of that word. You can choose to see all the grammar options at once or just choose one. It is really a great tool for building your childs vocabulary and improving writing skills. The best part of all is that it’s free.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
