Free Homeschooling Resources
for Language Arts

Looking for some free homeschooling resources for language arts? Here are my favourites. These are the sites which I have bookmarked through the years. I hope you enjoy them too!

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Free Homeschool Printables for Language Arts

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• Narration Page with Drawing Box Printable. Use this over and over again for different subjects. -stories, narrations of science, history, literature.Space for a picture to be added. Lines with dotted thirds to keep handwriting neatly proportioned.
  
  
• Narrative Outline free homeschooling worksheet used to list the 5W's and H of a narrative (Who, When, Where, Why, What and How), the Resolution and Conclusion and use these story elements to create the child's own narrative.
  Who-Characters
  When, Where - Setting
  What, Why, How - Plot
• Narrative Outline in landscape format.
  
  
• Story Map printable to express a story in chronological order.

Hymns and Carols

• Christmas Carol Booklet
  Instructions for Printing:If you want to make a small booklet, press Print on the PDF, go to PROPERTIES, go to PAGE LAYOUT, check MULTI-PAGE and write in 2 PAGES. Press OK and Print.
  Or Print an A4 booklet.

Spelling/Vocabulary

• Word Search Creator - create and make your own Word Search.
• Crossword Puzzle Generator - make your own crossword puzzles with your spelling lists.
• Free SAT and Vocabulary games from Sheppard Software

• Merriam-Webster Online Word Games. Fun and educational. You can play online.

• Spelling Lists for Years 1-8 from Everyday Spelling.

• Phonics Desk Worksheet Program. The Worksheet LESSONS have been designed using a gradual increase in difficulty from one skill to the next.

• 15 Free Examples of Word Trees used in this Vocabulary Program. Interesting.

• Free Educational Crossword Puzzles and more

  
  
  

Grammar

• KISS Grammar A top quality Grammar Program. You will need to find your way around the site, but you can print off whole workbooks. I have enjoyed using their methodology and worksheets for years.This truly is an amazing free homeschooling resource.

• Online Grammar and Writing Handbook - filled with Grammar and Writing Lessons.

• Daily Grammar Lessons sent to your email box Monday to Friday for free. Saturday is a quiz. Or you can access the lessons through the archives.

• Owl English: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Handouts.

• Eats, Shoots and Leaves Punctuation Game.

Handwriting

• Learning Pages provides a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials you can download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets, and much more can be found here. Sign up to get all this and more for free! Find handwriting pages here and a whole lot more.

• Free Handwriting Fonts for Teachers

• Handwriting Fonts for Children from An Old Fashioned Education.

Copywork/ Dictation

• Children's Bible Story Lessons. The activities for each lesson include a printable study sheet, test, word search activity,and crossword puzzle with a word bank.There are online Quia games to accompany many of the lessons. They can be used as copywork, dictation and spelling.

• Leaves of Life by Margaret Bird Steinmetz. Can be used for copywork - interesting quotes and scriptures for each day.

• Poems Every Child Should Know" by Various authors. Poetry to be used for copybook.

Writing

• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant A complete curriculum to walk the writer through the details of all phases of writing essays, including organization, revision, editing, documentation of sources, and specific instruction in how to write informal, thesis/support, argumentative, and exploratory essays. You'll find many useful free homeschooling resources here.

• The biography Maker walks the child through the steps of making a biography.

• List of tens by Traci is a huge site offering writing ideas from grammar exercises, writing style exercises, writing prompts and far more - organized into lists of 10 ideas.

• English Online- a huge site for English teachers (years 1-13) which includes teaching resources (which are useful as free homeschooling resources), networks and research for teachers and student projects and publication opportunities.

• Features of Text Forms from English On-line.

• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. This classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer.
  
  
• Writing Language Arts Lessons based on modeling Literature.

Reading Resources

• Project Gutenberg Over 20,000 free books to read online or download. Instructions for each book. Search for your favourite author.


• The Phonics Page - free phonics and spelling lessons.


• Free Phonics Reading Program


• The Baldwing Online Children's Literature Project. The Baldwin Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children.


• Jan Brett's Page - 4,114 pages of free activities, coloring pages, and projects; a huge array of goodies from a famous illustrator and author.


• Learning Island Books - This site has hundreds of books that you can print out and keep.


• The Fairy Tale Road


• My Young Child -free online stories for building morals.


• Dolch Sight Words


• Best Children's books helps you to find the best, read the best and write the best.

Literature Lists

• What are your favourite read alouds?


• Glencoe Literature Library Download various Study Guides for excellent Literature. A huge selection.

• The 1000 Good Books List It is a listing of the books that 25 homeschooling mothers have come up with over the course of a year’s time through discussions of criteria to use in choosing a good book, and many other discussions about individual titles to include or exclude. How did they judge what to include?

  The criteria we used to judge inclusion are: Does the book have literary value? Does the book re-emphasize a Biblical worldview or the Judeo-Christian heritage in some way? Does the book teach, through whatever means, what is moral or just or true? Does the book encourage to love and good works? Does the book exemplify warmth, tenderness, courage, humor, and other values and characteristics that we desire our children to be exposed to? Does the book nourish the intellect and fire the imagination? Does the book cross age barriers to be enjoyed by all?

Listening - audio

• Kiddie Weekly RecordsDownload the audio files for free or listen online.

• Audio books for free You can download for free at a lesser quality or pay a minimal fee. I don't recommend all the titles, but there is a terrific selection. We have used this resource often.

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