Posts Tagged ‘ writing ’

How To Help Your Child Develop Writing Skills

How can parents help with writing at home? Use these tips and approaches to help your homeschooler learn to write easily and effectively.
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Word Play: Language Arts Activities for Homeschool

No one likes busy work, but nearly everyone loves learning through games! Whether you’re looking for online learning games, printables, crafts, or worksheet activities, we’ve found some free options for you!
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Everything A2Z: Resource Roundup for November

Need some inspiration for this month? Find everything we have A2Z for your November homeschooling!
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Handwriting – Teaching Cursive and Manuscript Writing

Teach handwriting with free cursive and manuscript printable worksheets. Download alphabet fonts for kids to practice handwriting with their own stories.
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Writing and Composition Curriculum

Writing Resources A variety of free resources to help parents and educators teach writing more effectively. Free Writing Resources Beginning Handwriting Handwriting Without Tears A variety of products to help your child learn to handwrite correctly and comfortably. Composition Homeschool Writing Tips Resources to help even the most reluctant homeschool writers. Brave Writer Through...
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Poetry Lessons, Poems For Kids

*This post contains affiliate links. Items purchased through our links may earn us a commission. In fact, at present, only some forms of advanced science–particle physics for example–allow a young mind to experience the paradox, ambiguity, irrational thought, associative “leaping” with good poems teaches us to think and feel. Poems open those synapses in the brain. It always...
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English Composition

Yes, you can teach yourself high school-level English composition.
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Grammar For Homeschooling the English Language

*This post contains affiliate links. Items purchased through our links may earn us a commission. Beginner’s Grammar Lessons for Free Grammar Gorillas Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts of speech. If you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana. And you know, a gorilla with...
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Writing Process For Kids by Kim Kautzer

Brainstorm. Write a rough draft. Write your first revision. Get editing and comments. Writing your final draft.
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Creative Writing – How to Write Stories and Essays

Learn to write stories and essays and find places to post them online. Creative writing lessons and classes online.
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Language Arts – Free Lessons for Kids and Teens

High School English English Composition Yes, you can teach yourself high school-level English composition. English Literature Free literature and lessons on analyzing great literature. Public Speaking How to write and give a speech. Famous speeches. Where to learn to give a speech.   Reading Books, Bountiful Books Check out book reviews and message boards...
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References For Writers

Acronym Guide The online acronym directory. Everything from military and medical to computer and financial acronyms. Find them all here. Bartlett’s Quotations Passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources. Citation Machine Set to help you generate web page citations, but this site can help you generate citations from all sorts of resources online...
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Web Writing

By Teri Brown I have my first check on the wall. I’ll never forget how excited I was when I realized that someone would actually pay me to write. Not only have I found a way to make a bit of extra money, but I get to do it while homeschooling my children. And, as...
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No More Writer’s Block

Using Multiple Intelligences to Help Young Writers By Laurel Schmidt, author of Seven Times Smarter: 50 Activities, Games and Projects to Develop the Seven Intelligences in Your Child Ask some kids to write, and they can’t get to their pencils fast enough. Ask others—you get a marathon stare. Twenty minutes later, they’re still staring. The...
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