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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 9, 2023 · Last modified March 5, 2023
At one point, I noticed that the kids need a bit more practice distinguishing between their, they’re, there and its, it’s so I made this grammar worksheet for them. It has become one of the most popular free worksheets on the website and I wanted to highlight it for you again! I have made the kids tons of grammar worksheets over the years and these PDFs are all FREE! Scroll...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 5, 2023 · Last modified August 19, 2023
NEW! Long O Vowel Sound Spelling Packet The Long O Sound Packet helps students learn and review the patterns and rules for words that have the long /ō/ vowel sound. This 30-page packet includes Long O Word Sorts, Games and Activities – o, o_e, oa, ow, oe Spelling Words. Some of the Long O-Sound words include: o words: open, cold, post, gold, zero, potato, etc. o_e words: home, slope, pole,...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 13, 2022
As we start of this new school year we are diving deep into literary analysis! We have covered the basic literary terms like similes, metaphors, rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia and now we’re diving into some wonderful short stories! As homeschoolers, language arts consists of several blocks during in our day 1) independent reading (the kids read their own novels), 2) literature (our read aloud book/novel), 3) language arts (which included grammar...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published July 13, 2022 · Last modified August 17, 2024
I have some new Back to School Writing Activity Pages that are a perfect way to get your kids’ writing juices flowing at the beginning of your homeschool year. These pages have been added to the Writing Resource BUNDLE. I know many of you are not quite ready to start back into homeschooling, but I wanted to make these Writing Pages available sooner than later. 🙂 For younger students there...
Free Comma Rules Worksheets! This time of year, we spend time practicing grammar. I have so many grammar sets on the blog, I thought it was about time to start putting them together in a convenient spot. So, I have started creating a Grammar Practice BUNDLE. I will be adding in new PDFs from time to time to this Grammar Bundle. They are currently free (in random spots all over...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 1, 2020 · Last modified November 29, 2020
Often, we have a novel that we read aloud. Over the next few weeks, we are going to be doing a Short Story Unit instead. We’ll be reading 2-3 stories a day (depending on their length and the time we have available). I’ve included pictures (and tables of contents) for the two resources we’re using, but of course these pages are open-ended so you can use whatever you have on...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published October 5, 2020 · Last modified February 10, 2021
Earlier this week, I had a wonderful back-and-forth email conversation with a reader about literature and language arts in our homeschool. She had questions about the literature book/s we were using when my kids were in grades 2, 5 and 7. I thought I would share a lot of that conversation with you today. It highlights some of the language arts books/texts/resources we have used over the years. Plus, I’ve...
I just wanted to let you know that I added a new video to explain why and how we used a Writing Workshop in our homeschool. You’ll find that at the Writing Workshop page – homeschoolden.com/writing-workshop Just click here: In this video, I didn’t realize I should drag it and make my screen bigger… so I’m like 1/2 an inch as I talk!! Ah well… live and learn! But, the...
Language Arts - Grammar Worksheets / Language Arts: Spelling
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 2, 2020
This 30-page Plurals Packet has worksheets and games to help your kids learn how to form plurals easily! To form some plurals you add an -s; for others you add an -es. Sometimes you change the f and add -ves… or other times the spellings are irregular! Here are some worksheets and games to practice all that! This 20+ page Spelling Packet includes two game boards, 10 pages of word...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published November 19, 2019 · Last modified July 26, 2023
Do you know about this great literature resource? The Glencoe Literature Library page has Free Literature Study Guides (UPDATE – These appear not to be available any longer.) for a huge selection of well-known novels. The Literature Study Guides include sections such as Meet the Author Introducing the Novel Before you Read Active Reading activities Personal Responses Update: UNFORTUNATELY THESE GUIDES DON’T SEEM TO BE AVAILABLE ANYMORE! I thought I...
Homeschool Den / Language Arts: Writing
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published October 11, 2019 · Last modified July 1, 2020
This Writing Resource BUNDLE will help you take your kids’ writing to the next level! It includes five huge action-packed pdfs! For the last year, I have been trying to compile and put ALL (300+pages) of our writing materials and resources into a more convenient packet. It’s been a huge undertaking! I thought it was about time to release it… even though it is always a work in progress! 🙂...
Over the weekend, I talked a little bit about what we’ve been doing in our writing workshop. Today, I just thought I’d write a post about how we use the big Literature textbooks in our homeschool. We’ve bought many Literature anthologies. They include stories, plays, poems, myths & legends, biographies and more from well known authors. By many… I mean, just check out the back part of our literature shelf!! ...
Homeschool Den / Language Arts: Writing
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 21, 2019 · Last modified July 1, 2020
We have been using a writing workshop model in our homeschool for many, many years. It has brought a lot of joy to our writing time. My kids are not at all intimidated by writing now… even high school essays! I have a lot of posts about what a Writing Workshop looks like in our homeschool and also have a lot of posts about the various mini-lessons we used to...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 28, 2019
Have you been planning out your language arts for next year? I thought I would share my plans with ED (who will be in Grade 6 next year). She’s 11. Below you’ll find out how we tackle the various parts of language arts: literature skills (plot, setting, character, point of view, and so forth), grammar, vocabulary, spelling, literature (reading lots of good novels), and writing (which I’ve written about in...
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