Talking Letters: Here is a phonics program that has been used for a number of years. This is truly an interactive way to teach young children to associate a letter's sound with its shape. Each letter has a colorful character associated with it, and an adventure story that explains its shape and the appropriate sound. Once the sounds are learned, these children can begin to recognize the letters, and sound out words on their own. The system comes with a video tape, a poster of the letter pictures, flash cards with the story on the back for each letter and even a workbook. You can go to the website to see even more, but please come back and order it here!
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Common Sense Reading Program; Blue Book Series Debbie Strayer and Susan Simpson have put together a developmental, integrated language arts program based on Ruth Beechick's philosophies. The system uses reading and literature to learn and master language skills such as grammar, vocabulary, spelling, writing mechanics and more. This package includes teacher and student books, a materials packet and 28 readers. This one is recommended for 1st grade.

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Rocket Phonics: New from Critical Thinking Press Everything needed to prepare your students for success is included in this program—a color-coded reading book with easy-to-follow, detailed instructions; ITA playing cards; bingo cards with chips; and two Treasure Hunt games. Rocket Phonics uses an Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA) system to teach the 36 letter sounds necessary to pronounce any word in the English language.

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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons: This program states that in only 20 minutes a day, this step-by-step program teaches your child to read - with the love, care and joy only a parent and child can share. I brought this one on board by request of my clients. Many folks LOVE this one!

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Learning Disabilities: There Is A Cure: Written by Addie Cusimano Addie does not discuss overnight cures, but she does give you tools and great ideas for dealing with and removing learning disabilities. She does not talk about masking learning struggles but gives you real tools for eliminating them! See her website for a list of the Table of Contents. NOTE: This is not just for parents of children with official "labels", but for all parents because it talks about the basic learning skills that all students need to have developed. This might explain some particular homeschooling struggles you may have noticed but not understood.

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Little Lemon: Activities for Developing Motivation and Memory Skills: By Betsy B. Lee
Sometimes we forget what we have been taught. Betsy Lee's Little Lemon book addresses the need to learn and how to remember with a fictional story, puppets, music, discussion questions, and lesson plans. There are even more lesson plans at her website! (see my sites page) You can buy the book alone or with the one of the available puppets!


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Common Sense Reading Program; Red Book Series: - This is the next package in the Common Sense Reading program written by Debbie Strayer and Susan Simpson. This one is suggested for second grade. The Red Book package includes teacher and student books along with 6 readers.
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Ruth Beechick's The Three R's: Here at Unit Study Helps, Ruth Beechick is one of our favorite authors (as if you haven't figured that out by now!) In this publication, there are three little booklets full of practical help for your school. Directed towards parents of k-3rd graders, Ruth gives a simple, commonsense approach to learning that are designed to give your students a strong start in reading, language and arithmetic. See Review
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Before Five in a Row - Jane Claire Lambert has written this two-part unit study program for your 2-4 year old.The first part contains many simple ideas and activities developed around 23 great books written for young children. Part two is a resource filled with many specific ideas designed to help you prepare children for learning through simple, everyday activities (i.e. bath time, bedtime, mealtime, shopping and more!).

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Five in a Row - Jane Claire Lambert has written three volumes to this series. It provides a step-by-step instructional guide for teaching social studies, language, art and science using a number of great children's books as the basis for weekly unit studies. All the teacher information needed is there for you. These are designed for your 4-8 year old.

Volume 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19.95
Volume 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24.95
Volume 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19.95

Slow and Steady, Get Me Ready - Updated! This one by June Oberlander is designed with your toddlers and infants in mind. June gives you some great ideas that do not involve extensive planning or materials on your part. This non-consumable book gives you a great way to enjoy school with your youngest students!
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Little Hearts for His Glory This is the latest release from Heart of Dakota. If you are looking for something to get you through EVERY day with your 5-7 year old, this is the program for you. It has 34 units with games and many SIMPLE activities to do with your youngster! Two pages with nine boxes cover your day. Too simple!

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Additional Resources to use with the above program are suggested and available from Unit Study Helps:
History for Little Pilgrims . . . . . . $9.95
History Stories for Children . . . . $7.00
Storytime Set (8 books) . . . . . . . $8.00
EITHER:
Rod and Staff Workbooks (Price for both - Do It Carefully AND Finding the Answers) . . . . .$5.60
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McGraw Hill Thinking Skills Grade 1 . . . . . . . $6.95

A Purple Cow - Betsy Lee has done it again! Here's a terrific book for children to help them remember their colors and to be reminded that it's okay to take a little extra time to learn them. What a great encouragement and entertainment for everyone!

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Dolch Word Books by Betsy B. Lee
These books have poems, stories, and word search puzzles which use all of the appropriate grade level Dolch sight words. These words need to be recognized instantly without depending on pictures for cues. Many of the words can not be sounded out (e.g. is sounds like iz).

A note from Betsy: Before children finish first grade, they should be able to read all of the Dolch sight words and the commonly used Dolch nouns. The lists represent frequency of use in books on different grade levels. The word, if, is on the third grade list. This only means that E. W. Dolch found this word frequently in third grade books. He did not find it often in pre-primer through second grade books. The nouns aren't listed by grade level.

Choose Book 1 (see note from Betsy above), Book 2 (see note from Betsy above) or Book 3 (see note from Betsy above)
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Albert, the Apple-eating Appaloosa - Written by Betsy Lee, here are several horse stories with different endings of Dolch Sight Words>Another great source for using the Dolch Words in a handy and interesting context.

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A Lucky Pair - Frances Dinkins Strong This is a moving story that is PERFECT for students who a) love horses, or b) have compassion for the physically challenged or c) feel "different" or d) are learning how to read chapter books. The plot is interesting and it is the kind of book that a youngster would WANT to read. The story goes from page to page drawing the reader into relationship with each of the characters. The chapters are long enough to give the reader a sense of accomplishment from reading "chapter books" but short enough to make them want to read the next chapter! PS The artwork is delightful and hand drawn by Mattie Dinkins Roscoe.

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Stepping Stones to Bigger Faith for Little People - Written by Joyce Herzog and illustrated by Marvin Jarboe, this book presents the Bible in language easy for a child to read and understand. She takes mature concepts and presents them simply. The illustrations are just terrific as well.

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The Big Book of Questions and Answers - Sinclair Ferguson has written this 76 page book of questions and answers with activities to help your young student with their questions dealing with their Christian faith.
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The Big Book of Questions and Answers about Jesus - Sinclair Ferguson has written this 88 page book of questions and answers with activities to help your young student with their questions about Jesus. Topics include when Jesus was a boy, when Jesus left home, Jesus the great Teacher, Jesus the great Saviour, Jesus goes to the cross and Jesus calls us to be his disciples.
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Language and Thinking for Young Children - Ruth Beechick and Jeannie Nelson wrote a book that covers developing language, thinking, listening and memorizing skills for young children. They even included important life skills like answering the telephone and good manners. There are tons of great activities packed into this little book.
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Say What You Mean for Preschoolers: - This is a delightfully fun way to introduce basic communication concepts and lay the groundwork for your child to have more confidence and power! Designed for children of every learning style and level of development! To see a sample page, go here! (Note: requires Adobe Acrobat to open.)

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Thinker Doodles New from Critical Thinking Press. This is a series that advertises itself as the "Smart Coloring Book"! There are 4 books available at this point in time. There is a Beginning(Pre K) Clues and Choose, A Level A1 (K-1)Clues and Choose, a Half 'n Half Animals A1 (K-1) and a Half 'n Half Animals B1 (2-4)


Clues & Choose asks students to use visual clues to match complete pictures with their unfinished forms. After identifying the pairs, students draw the missing parts to make matching pairs. Once the drawing is completed, students follow directions and apply creative thinking to color the pictures.

Beginning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8.99
A1 (K-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8.99

Half 'n Half present students with the challenge of completing a picture that is only half drawn. To complete the drawing students must mentally flip the image to add the missing parts. Once the drawing is finished, students are encouraged to be creative by coloring the animal in imaginative ways and adding a setting and/or objects to their picture.

A1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8.99
B1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8.99

Can You Find Me? - From Critical Thinking Press, a new book for building thinking skills for reading, math, science and social studies! Each riddle requires identification of two or more clues to deduce the answer. Students can provide answers orally or point to the picture that solves the riddle. If students need assistance in thinking through solutions, they can be prompted with questions that focus on important information.

Grade PreK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17.99
Grade K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17.99

Mind Building Reading - New From Critical Thinking Press this year. This one helps develop reading skills by using critical thinking. There are lots of thought provoking activities to help your student achieve early reading success!

Grade K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19.99

 

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AUDIO TAPES TO HELP YOU BE A BETTER TEACHER

Homeschooling the Challenging Child: If you have a child that seems to be taking a LOT of "YOU" time, this one hour seminar tape by Kathryn Stout may have just what you need to hear! This isn't just another "feel good" tape, there are specific suggestions for balancing your time so all your children can get the attention they need!
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Teaching Kids to Think: In this 60 minute audio tape, Kathryn Stout teaches us how to create a learning atmosphere that encourages reasoning, supporting opinions, and problem-solving. Kathryn shows us how to do this with a minimum of effort while covering requirements in basic subjects—reading comprehension, composition, science, and math.
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Teaching Reading, Spelling, & Critical Thinking: (60 minute audio tape) Here are suggestions to use with elementary age children to begin building the foundation for analysis later. Teach children to recognize patterns and use reasoning as you read to them, as they practice phonics and spelling, and when they write compositions. Help them find and use patterns in math and science as well. These easy-to-use ideas encourage kids to become problem-solvers. - seminar by Kathryn Stout
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Teaching Tips That Really Work (60 minute audio tape) Whether your child is gifted, struggling, a bit of both, or somewhere in between, there are approaches that will replace boredom or frustration with a love of learning. Kathryn discusses how to overcome the "I can't, I won't" syndrome, teach through strengths, build up weak areas, and create a problem-solving atmosphere. - seminar by Kathryn Stout.
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