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We use living literature to teach the mechanics of writing!

Copywork, dictation, and a few other strategies thrown in for good measure—we teach the mechanics of writing through living literature. Brave Writer adds an element to the teaching of mechanics: appreciating an author’s craft in writing (literary elements).

These open-and-go programs are digital downloads, featuring one novel (not included) per month, with weekly passages for copywork and dictation.

Programs are based around grade levels

• The Wand (Grades K-1)
• A Quiver of Arrows (grades 1-2)
• The Arrow (grades 3-6)
• A Pouch of Boomerangs (grades 7-8)
• The Boomerang (grades 9-12)

Beyond the Book Report is our middle/early high school language arts curriculum. Beyond the Book Report is designed to pair with Analytical Grammar to provide a seamless, full-coverage, meaty, productful middle school language arts course that doesn’t take up your whole day. By using AG and BBR together (just add the vocab of your choice!), you can teach language arts in about an hour a day.

The course covers literary analysis, journalism, poetry, drama, essays, oral reports, and research papers spread over three seasons. The video lectures and student forms, worksheets, and rubrics are all on a computer DVD. For grades 6 and up.

Although he’s just two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, Munford is all adventure. He can be rain, snow, sleet, or steam. He has traveled the world in search of excitement. Throughout history, he has been present at some of the most important and world-changing events. Fun and educational, Munford will inspire your children to learn more about many of history’s greatest moments. These readers make a great addition to your learning experience in areas such as history, geography, and science. This book series is written on an elementary reading level, but provides plenty of read-aloud entertainment for the entire family!

This course is designed for seventh grade students in regular classrooms or individualized learning programs in which students progress through the material as rapidly as desired or as slowly as necessary. The course consists of six, soft-cover student texts with six companion activity books in saddle-stitch format. Every lesson begins with theme art and an engaging narrative from “Professor K” designed to draw students into the lesson. The course covers basic math concepts beginning with simple properties and extending through calculations of powers and roots, percentages, volume, weight, temperature, area, and unknowns. Students receive a solid foundation in scientific notation, metric systems, basic geometry, graphs, square and cube roots, PEMDAS, grouping, fractions, decimals, percent and interest. Students learn how to understand and complete word problems, especially those types which appear on state academic assessments.

Here to Help Learning enhances the love of writing one home at a time by providing Christian based, high-quality on-location filmed instruction for grades 1-6. Created by a 20-year homeschool veteran, Here To Help Learning’s lessons are action packed and filled with humorous antics that will keep your child engaged and learning. There are six courses that cover all aspects of paragraph and essay writing. Your valuable time will not be bogged down with a long list of preparations. We supply you with student worksheets and easy to use scripted lessons. We give the best part of home education back to you, the love and joy of learning together. Whether you are a home educator or a co-op teacher, you will be able to lead and teach with confidence and provide your students with outstanding writing instruction. Affordably priced that does not skimp on the extravagant.