Good morning, welcome to our Homeschool Resources: Reading and Spelling. Please take a look at this website and let me know if you’ve used these resources with your students. In the meantime, Charlie and I haven’t used these resources, but I want to check out Touch-Type Read and Spell with Charlie and also David who doesn’t know how to use a computer and before he can learn David needs to learn how to Type.
Touch-Type Read and Spell is an award-winning, multi-sensory, highly accessible typing program that teaches touch-typing skills while also helping kids improve reading and spelling.
Glencoe Literature Library– Grades 6-12 approximately, with parental supervision
This website is a great place to get free and comprehensive literature study guides for a variety of notable books.
When you get to the site, you’ll see an alphabetical menu of book titles. Simply click on the book of interest to you and a new page opens containing a brief synopsis of the book, related readings, and a link to the downloadable Study Guides (about 25-35 pages) in PDF format. Some of the book titles are:
- Animal Farm
- Beowulf
- The Call of the Wild
- Great Expectations
- Jane Eyre
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Scarlet Letter
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- and many more!
Click on the “Study Guide” and the PDF file opens (it may take a minute to fully download). The Study Guide is comprehensive for each book and includes classroom activities that can be easily tweaked for individual use including:
- A Focus Activity
- Vocabulary Preview
- Notes for Character Summarizations
- Questions that Prompt Literature Analysis
- Writing Assignments
- Interdisciplinary Connections to Science, History, and Social Studies
All of this is neatly formatted so that you can print out the activity pages separately or as an entire unit. The beauty here is that you can pick and choose the items that help your students get the most out of their reading experiences.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
