Writing and Rhetoric

Spanish for Kids by Kids was created to give parents a fun and easy way for their children to learn Spanish.

The Video Series incorporates a teaching style that Kit developed over a decade with her own children.  It combines immersion with visuals  – adding a good dose of humor and fun.  Kit believes this makes it easier for students to retain what they learned.  Painful memorization is not useful or fun.

The board game Dice Off™, challenges groups of kids to learn while they are having healthy, competitive fun.

Hewitt’s Lightning Lit guides use full-length novels, autobiographies, plays, essays, short stories, and poems to teach deep reading and composition skills. Unlike some literature programs that take a scatter-shot approach (where none of the literature seems connected) or that try to include too much into one book, Lightning Literature guides focus on a few classics in depth, in a systematic manner.

Created for the independent, homeschooling student, Teaching Textbooks has helped thousands of high schoolers gain a firm foundation in upper-level math without constant parental or teacher involvement.

Extraordinarily clear illustrations, examples, and graphs have a non-threatening, hand-drawn look, and engaging real life questions make learning pre-algebra practical and applicable. Textbook examples are clear while the audiovisual support includes lecture, practice and solution CDs for every chapter, homework, and test problem. The review-method structure helps students build problem solving skills as they practice core concepts and rote techniques.

Teaching Textbooks’ new Pre-Algebra Version 2.0 edition now includes automated grading! Students watch the lesson on the computer, work a problem in the consumable workbook, and type their answer into the computer; the computer will then grade the problem. If students choose to view the solution, they can see a step-by-step audiovisual solution.

Saxon Math Homeschool teaches math with a spiral approach, which emphasizes incremental development of new material and continuous review of previously taught concepts.

Lessons contain a warm-up (with facts practice, mental math, & problem-solving exercises); introduction to the new concept, lesson practice exercises where the new skill is practiced, and mixed practice exercises, which includes 25-30 old and new problems. In-depth “Investigations” are provided every 10 lessons, and have their own set of questions.

Perfect as its own ethnographic course, or as a supplement to geography, history, or social studies, Eat Your Way Around the World will be a hit for any homeschool family! Arranged by continent and country, simple, traditional recipes are interspersed with etiquette hints, food profiles, notes on the culture, recipe information, room to journal.even a passport is included! Discover foods from Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, Nigeria, South America, China, Japan, India, France, Ireland, England, Canada, Guatemala, Jamaica, the U.S. and more. 111 pages, spiral-bound softcover. Index with websites for more recipes included.