Grade 6-8

Simplify Writing provides engaging resources and differentiation materials that help fill in learning gaps and empower their students to share their opinions and ideas. Each lesson takes about 10-15 minutes and keeps students engaged and active in the learning experience.  Utilizes a library of grammar tools in the context of student writing to better develop the written language skills of students. Provides the flexibility teachers need to reach students with varying experiences, background knowledge, and ability levels.
Teacher/Personal license for $247, one-time purchase

Grade 6-10

WriteShop is a parent-guided writing curriculum with daily, easy-to-implement activities..Using pre-writing activities, skill builders, and more, WriteShop Junior introduces students 8-13 years of age to genre while teaching important writing, editing, and grammar skills. Explore the WriteShop Junior overview to learn more.  WriteShop I &II provide teens with a solid foundation in descriptive, informative, and narrative writing—and build self-editing skills—using the incremental WriteShop writing program. 

Grade K-10

Brave Writer’s comprehensive home study courses are designed to provide your homeschooling family the greatest amount of writing instruction with the most flexibility for you and your schedule. The Writer’s Jungle is a complete writing manual that offers you the guidance you need for teaching your own children to write.

A Pouch of Boomerangs is designed for 6th-7th grades. The Pouch of Boomerangs is comprised of ten digital literature guides which are similar to the Boomerang, but written for the middle school set. You will receive all ten issues at once. Or the issues can be purchased as single issues by clicking on the individual titles themselves.

Prep Time: Varies

Teachers Manual: Essential

Technology: Available in digital

Grade K-9

Moving Beyond the Page offers a strong language arts program that covers vocabulary, writing, story elements, and figurative language while helping to develop a love of literature.

Comprehensive

Prep Time: Moderate to high

Teachers Manual: None. Instructions for lessons in student book

Technology: Online or DVD video

Grade 6-12

CommonLit free online program offers full units with short texts and novel connections. Includes thousands of reading lessons, full-year ELA curriculum, benchmark assessments, and standards-based data for teachers. Instruction can be tailored to students’ needs with text-to-speech, translation, and digital note-taking. Offers ability to track students’ reading performance, set goals, and plan instructional next steps. 

Comprehensive

Grade 6-12

Fishtank Learning The Fishtank ELA curriculum aims to develop students into critical readers, writers, and thinkers. Effective literacy instruction builds students’ reading/writing skills and knowledge, develops students' identity and agency, helps students understand the world around them, and creates independent critical readers. Offers complex, engaging texts written in a variety of genres and by diverse voices, to highlight the diversity and richness of the human experience. 

Comprehensive

Grade K-8

BookShark is a complete, literature-based, homeschool curriculum developed for Pre-K to Eighth Grade students. This curriculum uses a variety of educational resources including literary fiction and non-fiction, biographies, illustrations and hands-on experiments to deliver an engaging and complete education that extends beyond textbook memorization.

Bookshark is easy for parents to teach. All of the planning and preparation is done for you so you can enjoy learning together.

BookShark combines a proprietary History, Science and Language Arts .

Prep Time: Low

Teachers Manual: Essential

Grade 5-8

In Complete Writer: Writing With Skill, developing composition skills is the primary goal, but reading comprehension and analysis also receive a good deal of attention. It teaches students to write essays, research papers and persuasive papers. This course consists of a student workbook and an instructor text.

The Creative Writer is ideal for middle school and high school students who want to improve their creative writing and sharpen their skills at writing exciting fiction and colorful poetry.

Prep Time: Moderate to High

Teachers Manual: Essential

Grade 6-8

Write on Course 20-20  is the perfect resource to help 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students become better writers, readers, test takers, and learners. It overflows with writing guidelines, models, checklists, tips, and much more 

Teachers Manual: A free online teacher's guide provides teaching suggestions, models, minilessons, topic ideas, videos, digital downloads, and much more 

Grade 6-8 (ESL/ELL)

All Write helps your middle-school students “catch up” and move ahead, whether English is their first or second language. This student handbook is very user-friendly and contains clear guidelines, models, checklists, illustrations, and tips designed to meet the needs of your students. 

Teachers Manual: A free online teacher's guide provides teaching suggestions, models, minilessons, topic ideas, videos, digital downloads, and much more. 

Grade 7-12

Lightning Literature features composition work and study of classic literature.

Hewitt’s Lightning Lit guides use full-length novels, autobiographies, plays, and essays, short stories, and poems to teach deep reading and composition skills. It focuses on a few classics in depth, in a systematic manner.

Prep Time: Minimal to moderate

Teachers Manual: Essential

Grade 7-12

Each lesson in Great Explorations in Editing will take only a few minutes per day. Since many junior and senior high students already have a fairly solid foundation in spelling and grammar, this is a great way to review and drill without using a comprehensive program. It might also be used as a complement to a comprehensive grammar or spelling program. Skills covered are at the "teaching" level for students in grades 7 to 9, and at review level for older students.

Prep Time: None

Teachers Manual: Essential

Grade K-12

Whether your students are eager learners or reluctant writers, the award-winning program Teaching Writing: Structure and Style will give you the tools you need to confidently teach your students to write well, think clearly, and express themselves eloquently and persuasively.

Students will learn how to…

• Outline and summarize

• Generate cohesive paragraphs

• Create stories

• Produce reports and critiques

• Develop essays

• Translate thoughts and ideas into writing

• Vary sentence structure

• Use interesting vocabulary

• Add literary devices

Grade 2-12

The Logic of English Essentials course was written for students ages seven and up who need a structured, integrated program for learning reading, spelling, and grammar. It can be used following either the course by the same author, or another introductory phonics program. 

Grade 9-12

Building a Better Vocabulary is a course taught in a series of 36 video lectures. Drawing heavily upon Greek and Latin word roots, the goal is to help students expand their usable vocabulary, and understand the relationships between words.

Prep Time: None

Technology: Digital files, online or downloadable videos

Grade 4-7

With The Language Mechanic, lessons begin with a "grabber"–a humorous miscommunication that results when a rule is broken. These examples are followed by an explanation of the specific rule, the logic behind it, and guided and independent practice. This book includes presentation and reinforcement suggestions, answers, a glossary, and a compare/contrast organizer. ear and easy-to-follow activities; and additional 'Next Step' follow-up and enrichment activities.

Prep Time: None

Grade 1-8 

Read Live Read Live provides complete access to Read Naturally Live, Word Warm-ups Live, One Minute Reader Live, and Read Naturally Live—Español in a simple and effective format. Build fluency, develop phonics skills, and improve vocabulary and comprehension with a structured process featuring nonfiction passages and an engaging scoring system.  

Quill.org, a non-profit, provides free literacy activities that build reading comprehension, writing, and language skills for elementary, middle, and high school students. Quill Grammar has over 150 sentence writing activities to help your students practice basic grammar skills, from comma placement to parallel structure. Our activities are designed to be completed in 10 minutes so you have the freedom to use them in the way that works best for your classroom. 

NoRedInk is a free online writing curriculum which facilitates effective instruction by helping teachers engage students through modeling, scaffolding, practice, and feedback. Students start each concept at their own level and learn at their own pace. Skill-building exercises let students restructure sentences, edit and mark up text, manipulate multi-paragraph passages, and more. Features:
- 1,000+ skills exercises, 100s of texts, prompts, and lessons, and guided practice for 10+ writing genres
- Standards- and assessment-based progress reports at the teacher, school, and district level
- Flexible professional development and seamless integrations with tools like Canvas, Clever, and Schoology.
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