Good morning, welcome to our Homeschool Resources: Reading. Check out the websites below and let me know if you have used them or not. If so what did you like or dislike about the resources and why?
CCC! Streaming Media – Dr. Seuss & Friends
Bring high-quality Video Online Streaming to your homeschool with Dr. Seuss & Friends Online Streaming with access to over 500 programs including Classic Tales Retold, Dinosaur Junction and many more!
Barnes & Noble: SparkNotes-Literature Study Guides
Grades 6 – adult, children with parental supervision
This ad-supported website, created by SparkNotes whose mission is “to help you make sense of confusing schoolwork”, looks much like ‘Cliff Notes’ but it’s free!
When you get to the site you will see a stunning array of free study guides which you can sort by title or Author spanning from A to Z. You can read most of the study guides for free online.
They are punctuated with advertisements (some are distracting), but it’s a small price to pay for the free resource. Pick a title, click, and a new page opens that contains the Plot overview, Character list, a Chapter by Chapter Summary and Analysis, Study questions and Essay topics, a Quiz, and suggestions for further reading.
In the top menu, other categories are:
- Shakespeare
- Literature
- Subjects by list
- Teacher Helps
But there’s MUCH MORE beyond Literature! In the History category you’ll find study guides on important eras in American and European history along with Biographies of people of historical importance. In Math and Science you’ll find guides to Algebra, Precalculus, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and more. Other subject areas include Film, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, and Economics.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
