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Did you know that we have published our very own language arts curriculum ideas -- free?  Click here to learn more!

• Language Arts the Easy Way -- a great "how to" article
• The Language Mechanic, a book published by Critical Thinking Products

Grammar

• Sentence Diagrams:  One Way of Learning English Grammar
• Diagramming Sentences:  A Guide to Grammar and Writing
• The KISS approach to grammar -- free curriculum for homeschoolers, beginning in 3rd grade -- highly recommended!
• The English Room (grades 6-12)
• Acu-Write is an email sent every Monday that will pinpoint a grammar rule or common usage error.  
• Grammar and More - features a hands-on approach to learning grammar
• Daily Grammar -- five new grammar lessons each week, delivered to your e-mail inbox
• The Latin Road to English Grammar
• Character Quality Language Arts -- a character-based program

Reading

• I highly recommend Wanda Sansari's Spell to Write and Read!
• Boost for Readers -- excellent website!
• Book Adventure -- a free reading motivation program for children in grades K to 8
• These word lists will help your child learn the 220 most common sight words in the English language.
• Fantastic Phonics is uses the proven phonics approach to teach reading while allowing you to download readers directly to your computer so you can print them.
• The Online Reading Teacher
• Reading Made Easy, by Valerie Bendt, is a simple reading curriculum that was recommended by visitors to this site.  I saw it at a curriculum fair one year, and it looks great -- check it out!
• Bricks and Mortar - Basic Reading Skills - a unique 240-page system for teaching your child to read, available for you to print out for free!
• Joyce Herzog -- I love her "Scaredy Cat Reading System."
• The Learning Page has books that you can download and print for your beginning reader
• More "printable books" from AtoZ Teacher Stuff
• Beginning Reading -- includes hundreds of free printable worksheets
• Starfall -- a learn-to-read website, offered free as a public service
• Learn to read with Family Fun Phonics
• AVKO's free "Starting at Square One" reading program
• Reading Competency Test, from the National Right to Read Foundation
• Vocabulary University
• Brightly Beaming Resources sells a Letter-of-the-Week curriculum for early childhood.
• Dolch word flash cards (sight words that must be memorized because they do not follow typical phonics rules)
• A primary reader by E. Louise Smythe (nice, by the Gutenberg Project)
• Alpha Phonics 

Writing

• Institute for Excellence in Writing.  For related lesson plans, visit the IEW Lesson Share.
• Improve your writing skills (a list of related links)
• Written & Illustrated By is a book that offers step-by-step instructions in all aspects of teaching students how to write, illustrate, assemble, and bind original books.
• Free writing tools for homeschool parents
• A+Homeschooling -- offers a poetry-writing course, compatible with a Charlotte Mason/Ruth Beechick philosophy
• Critical Writing and English Curriculum for Christian Students
• Create free, custom writing paper for creative writing assignments -- so fun!
• Write On! is produced by another homeschooling mom in my town.

Spelling

• I highly recommend Wanda Sansari's Spell to Write and Read!
• Spelling Lists for grades 1-8
• Bible-Based Spelling Lessons
• Spelling Lists for beginners
• AVKO Dyslexia and Spelling Foundation
• An online spelling test, with spelling hints, ideas for teaching, and more
• Excellent spelling companion books:  The Scholastic Rhyming Dictionary (Sue Young), You Can Teach Your Child Successfully (Ruth Beechick), Spelling Power (Beverly Adams-Gordon), The ABC's and All Their Tricks (M. Bishop), The Alpha List (Wanda Sanseri) -- choose one to generate spelling lists; no curriculum needed if combined with our free spelling plans.

Handwriting

• Cursive First -- an excellent way to teach handwriting.  At least consider reading about it.
• Handwriting Without Tears 
• The "Print Clearly" font you can use to print your own handwriting worksheets for your kids
• Download Bob Jones University Press' free PreCursive font
• Handwriting help from DonnaYoung.org
• The Teacher's Parking Lot -- free penmanship fonts
• Activities to develop fine motor skills and handwriting skills in young children
• Handwriting for Kids
• Type your own manuscript worksheets (ideal for copywork)

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