Wordsmith.org is a website that provides several services beneficial to homeschoolers and others. They are the “A Word a Day” newsletter, the Wordlovers’ Library Project that provides free books for libraries, Internet Anagram Server, Wordsmith Chat, and more.
World’s Greatest Stories is bible curriculum comprised of award winning dramatized bible stories on CD.
Worldview Academy is an organization that provides curriculum that helps “Christians to think and live in accord with a biblical worldview so that they will serve Christ and lead the culture”. This is done in the form of Leadership camps, Christianity and Culture Conferences, and books and resources as well. The Worldview Weekend Online Institute allows students to learn their own pace. A leader or teacher acts as the administrator for student groups to participate. “Some home-school co-ops (have) the students take the course online and then discuss the course work once a week during their co-op class time.”
Write Source (The Write Source) is a series of grade level handbooks for young writers. The write source is a division of Houghton Mifflin Company. This series encourages children to “write, and write, and write… freely.” Titles include Write One or Write Source 1 for first graders, Write Away, or Write Source 2 for Second Graders, and Write on Track or Write Source 3 for third graders. The series goes all the way up to college level with Write for College.
WriteShop is an incremental writing program for junior high and high school students. “Through a series of engaging lessons, students learn the four most common kinds of writing—descriptive, informative, narrative, and persuasive (essays)—by means of the following basic building blocks” of brainstorming, writing, editing and revising. The program is broken into two texts Writeshop I and Writeshop II. The program also comes with a comprehensive teacher’s manual.
Writing Road to Reading (also known as the Spalding Education method) is used in schools throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Central America, Europe, Singapore, and Taiwan. It is said to fill the requirements of No Child Left Behind. “The Spalding Method is a total language arts approach because it provides explicit, sequential, multisensory instruction in spelling (including phonics and handwriting), writing, and listening/reading comprehension.”
Writing strands is a K-12 writing program recommended by the writers of The Well Trained Mind, the Classical Education guidebook. “Writing Strands is a program designed to teach children how to use their language effectively in creative and expository modes. The upper levels of the series have creative, basic, research and report, argumentative, and explanatory training. The lower levels teach the skills needed by the students to be able to take advantage of the upper levels’ exercises.”
Writing to God’s Glory is a biblically based writing curriculum that fits the classical method of homeschooling. It can also be used in the Charlotte Mason Approach.
Zoombinis is the name of, as well as the main characters in a set of educational software by The Learning Company that allows a child to learn while playing. Zoombinis mixes education video games and is geared toward children age 8 and up.
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