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6th grade students mature in their language arts skills through 36 lessons. Passages from great literature encourage the reading of timeless classics. Dictation encourages expressive, creative writing. The updated third edition is even easier to use with new lessons that will introduce your student to additional classic literature. The study of suffixes and prefixes lays groundwork for skills needed at upper grade levels.

• 36 weekly lessons divided into easy-to-use daily plans.
• Teacher friendly, with little or no teacher preparation needed!
• Integrated language arts lessons including: grammar, spelling, higher-order thinking, and study skills.
• Each lesson provides the opportunity for your students to apply their skills through research, creative writing, journal writing, etc.
• Four Book Studies

1. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Latham
2. The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
3. Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard
4. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

• Each Book Study contains a summary, vocabulary skills, reading comprehension, and exciting activities.
• Two Units: Using the Library
• Writing a Research Paper
• Review Activities follow each lesson providing additional skill practice.
• Assessments aid teachers in identifying strengths and weaknesses.
• The Skills Index provides an easy skill reference.

The updated third edition is even easier to use with added exercises that will strengthen your student’s reading comprehension and writing skills. Based on dictation lessons, the Everyday Words unit teaches grammar, sentence structure, and sentence diagramming using classical literature for the middle school student. The Poetry Unit encourages an appreciation while memorizing, reciting, and analyzing various poems. In the Short Story Unit, students will analyze the elements of a story, develop a plot line, write dialogue and much more. In the Research Unit, students will learn how to do research in an easy to follow step by step plan for student and teacher.

• 36 weekly lessons divided into easy-to-use daily plans.
• Teacher friendly, with little or no teacher preparation needed!
• Three Unit Studies

1. Poetry
2. Short Story
3. Research

Three Book Studies

• The Star of Light by Patricia St. John
• The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
• Much Ado About Nothing - a play by William Shakespeare

• Each Book Study contains a summary, vocabulary skills, reading comprehension, and exciting activities.
• The Skills Index provides an easy skill reference.
• Review Activities follow each lesson providing additional skill practice.
• Assessments aid teachers in identifying strengths and weaknesses.

Primarily based on dictation, your student will learn all the components of language arts in one easy to use book. A five week Writing Unit prepares students for high school writing and research as well as continued study in prefixes, suffixes, and roots words. Four Book Studies are designed to expand understanding through various activities involving reading and writing skills. The updated third edition is even easier to use with new lessons and analogies study.

• 36 weekly lessons divided into daily plans. T
• eacher friendly, with little or no preparation needed!
• Integrated language arts lessons including: grammar, spelling, higher order thinking, and study skills.
• Encouraging a love for classical literature, through dictation students learn punctuation, capitalization, parts of speech, grammar, creative writing, and more.
• Spelling lists each week from the most Commonly Misspelled Words.
• Vocabulary Building exercises bring meaning to vocabulary in context making it useful in everyday language.
• Continued study of suffixes, prefixes, and root words prepares students for college testing.
• Four Book Studies (listed in the order they appear):

1. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
2. A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
3. Eric Liddell by Catherine Swift
4. God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew

• A five week Writing Unit prepares students for high school writing and research as well as continued study in prefixes, suffixes, and roots words.
• The Skills Index provides an easy skill reference.
• Reviews Activities follow each lesson providing additional skill practice.
• Assessments help teachers to evaluate student's progress.

This is the Companion Student Book to be used with the teacher's manual, "How to Teach Any Child To Spell." (sold separately, Item #0446). The student categorizes and studies misspelled words from their own writing. From Common Sense Press.

This item is not available online and can only be purchased at our physical location.

Author: Rea Berg and Rebecca Manor

Recommended For: K-3rd Grade

This open-and-go teacher's guide makes it easy to use the best literature to teach the story of the United States. We have sifted through 150+ titles to choose the best books available. Now you and your homeschooled students can dive into engaging stories with beautiful illustrations as you travel through time to meet Leif Erikson, Benjamin Banneker, Myles Standish, Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Franklin, Pocahontas, and dozens of others. This teacher guide includes historical background, recipes, discussion topics, many supplemental book recommendations, website links, and much more. Homeschool students will learn about the people who shaped our nation's heritage beginning with the Indigenous Peoples who first settled the American continents and ending at the conclusion of the Civil War. 

Learning history is most useful when the curriculum and unit studies show us what we can aspire to and what we ought to avoid or correct.

 An invaluable resource, this homeschooling teacher's guide takes out all the guesswork so you can enjoy hours of reading great books together, learning about the formation of our country, and having valuable discussions that will help you connect with your kids.

How Was Your Day Conversation Cards help children and parents navigate social situations about going back to school, prepping for school for the first time, or starting a new school. Questions on the back of each card invite parents and children to discuss what is happening in the sensitive illustrations. These cards help children to recognize emotional dynamics in going back to school, while sparking important conversations about their own experiences and how they are feeling. 

Ages 3 - 6

Take a stroll through preschool learning with the ONLY official Pete the Cat game based on the best-selling title “I Love My White Shoes”! Spin a super cool, guitar-shaped, color randomizer to determine whether Pete has stepped in red strawberries, blue blueberries, green grass, or yellow bananas. Spin the included Pete the Cat color wheel until Pete’s shoes match that color, then search for the matching game token in the game box. Collect all 4 colors and you win this groovy game of colors and matching, in addition the game play also encourages good sportsmanship, practices turn-taking, and aids in social/emotional development, so everyone’s a winner! 

The Big Idea
Players spin, match, laugh, and learn as they use the Pete the Cat squeezer to collect and place all the buttons they need to fill their Pete the Cat shirt game board.

George Eliot's Victorian masterpiece: a magnificent portrait of a provincial town and its inhabitants

George Eliot’s novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes.

The Big Idea

This programmable pet is a coder’s best friend! Kids can use a computer or tablet to code this four-legged friend and level up their coding skills! No coding experience? No problem! Start with drag and drop coding language Blockly, and level up to advanced Python coding! Code your pet to do cool tricks, change color, make and react to sounds, and express emotions! Kids can activate the code from their tablet or computer or step away from the device with the Code activator! Includes PYXEL A Coder’s Best Friend, a rechargeable battery, built-in user interface, and a Code Activator.

Psst…They’re Learning!

• Build early coding skills
• Enhance critical thinking
• Develop social & emotional skills

Cut to the Chase

• Includes PYXEL A Coder’s Best Friend, a rechargeable battery, built-in user interface, and a Code Activator
• Kids can command PYXEL the Coding Pet in Blockly and Python
• No internet connection is required! With Coding Pet’s password-protected WiFi, kids simply connect their WiFi-enabled tablet or computer to Coding Pet – they're never connecting to the internet
• Code Activator requires 2 AAA batteries, not included