Legal
- California Requirements (Christian Home Educators Association)
Provides the legal and administrative basis for home schooling and home schooling requirements in California. California law does not mention home schooling so home schoolers are recommended to join the national HSLDA for protection. 6-99
- Laws - Home Schooling Laws, Statisitics, News, and Tips (Home Schooling Defense Association)
Provides information for those starting or considering home schooling. Also is designed for those who are already involved in home schooling. 9-99
- Massachusetts Laws on Home Schooling (MHLA)
Provides legal requirements and court cases related to home schooling. 8-99
- Massachusetts Requirements for Home Schooling (HOPE)
Provides information and support for home schooling. 6-99
Lesson Plans
- Curriculum Materials - Users (Homeschool Publishing House)
Homeschool Seller acts as a broker between parents with used curriculum materials and those needing to purchase materials for home schooling. 6-99
- Grocery Store and Home Math Problems (US Dept of Education)
Provides 21 math lessons for the parent to use with children ages 5 - 13 in the home and at the grocery store.
- Homeschooling Articles by Topic (National Home Education Network)
Provides dozens of articles from NHEN for parents who are schooling their children at home. 7-02
- Massachusetts Curriculum Providers (HOPE)
Provides information and support for home schooling. 6-99
- Math Tutoring (Requires Software)
- Physical Education Lesson Ideas (PE Central)
Lists
- Books in Print (University of Virginia Library)
Provides online Books in Print from international sources, including the USA. 8-99
- Bullying (Awesome Library)
Provides suggestions on combating bullying. 1-02
- Charter Schools (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information on charter schools. 8-00
- Children's Literature - Resources for Parents
- Children's Writing Resource Center
- Christian - For Teens and Their Parents (About.com - Hill)
Provides activities, services, and other resources to help teens and their parents practice their Christian faith. 7-00
- Curriculum Level of Effort - Middle and High School (Novanet)
Suggests hours of effort needed in order for homeschoolers to gain each recommended skill for each grade level, by subject. 7-99
- Home School Organizations and Support Groups by State
- Home Schooling Curricula (Professor Mom)
Provides 15 sources of home schooling materials, including those with a religious basis.
- Home Schooling Resources
- Home Schooling Resources (About.com - Hernandez)
Provides an organized and annotated list of home schooling resources. 9-01
- Home Schooling Resources (Multnomah County Library)
Provides dozens of sources sources of information. 5-00
- Home Schooling Resources (Rushing)
Provides resources for home schooling, lessons, teaching, and preschool.
- Home Schooling Resources (dmoz.org)
Provides hundreds of sources of information on home schooling. 1-02
- Home Schooling Resources 1 (Yahoo)
Provides sources of information on home schooling.7-99
- Homeschool Organizations (Homeschool Zone)
Provides descriptions of organizations with eduational materials that can be used to support homeschooling. Christian oriented organizations included.
- Homeschool Resources (Homeschool Zone)
Provides descriptions of materials that can be used to support homeschooling. Christian oriented materials included.
- Homeschool World
- Homeschooling Directory of Resources (A to Z Home's Cool - Zeise)
Provides a searchable directory of homeschooling resources. 6-01
- Homeschooling Gifted Children (A to Z Home's Cool - Zeise)
Provides over a dozen articles about homeschooling gifted children, including reasons for doing so. 6-01
- Homeschooling Resources (Bunday)
Provides a comprehensive set of resources on homeschooling, including arguments for it, related books, and educational sites.
- Organizations Providing Case Management Services (Center for Healthcare Information)
Provides a list of agencies by state, county, area code, keyword, and zip code. Try specifying state alone first. 11-99
- Publishers and Distributors for K-12 Texts (Ramsey)
Provides contact information for publishers and distributors of books and software for K-12 education. 8-99
- Standards in Education (A to Z Home's Cool - Zeise)
Provides sources of education standards by state. 6-01
- Textbooks Search (Barnes and Noble)
Provides a search engine to find new and used textbooks. 8-99
- Textbooks Search (Educators Publishing Service)
Provides a search engine to find books for K-12 students. 2-01
Materials
- Awesome Talking Library (Awesome Library)
 Converts online text into spoken words through the Awesome Talkster program. Awesome Talkster has one of the clearest synthesized voices on the Web.
Converting online text into speech has many uses. For example, Talkster can speak online stories or books to children while an adult supervises. The voice can be put in "Boy" or "Girl" mode to add a character with a bubble over his or her head. The bubble will show each word as it is spoken and the voice can be put on "slow" for your child to follow. Talkster can thereby assist your child in learning how to pronounce words while reading.
Talkster is also useful for adults. It can speak news articles to you in one open browser while you are searching for information in another browser window.
For persons with visual impairments or poor coordination, Talkster can be navigated with keystrokes.
The Web can be navigated using a version of Awesome Library in a different language, such as Spanish, while using a voice for that language that is available through the Awesome Talkster. Links to different language versions of the Awesome Library are available at the bottom of most Awesome Library pages. Links to free voices for different languages can be found on the Awesome Talking Library's help page. 9-02
- Software for Young Children 2 (Kid's Domain)
Provides software by subject and grade level.
Papers
- Academic Progress by State (National Education Goals Panel)
Provides state by state comparisons of student academic achievement in science and math in 1988. (In PDF format) 7-99
- Articles by Homeschoolers
- Articles on Home Schooling (FamilyEducation Network)
Provides tips on home schooling. 9-99
- Book Reviews for Preschool to Kindergarten
- Charter Schools (WestEd)
Provides information on starting and running a charter school. 5-00
- Curriculum Suggestions by Grade Level (HSAdvisor.com)
Provides suggestions for K-12 topics, by grade and subject. 6-02
- Fact Sheet 1 (NHERI - Ray)
Provides facts about home schooling, such as success levels of students, the number of students in home schooling, and more. 6-99
- Fact Sheet 3 (NHERI - Ray)
Provides facts about home schooling, such as how well adults taught in home schooling have done, the rate of increase in home schooling, socialization success with home schooling, and more. 6-99
- Help Your Child Learn to Write Well
- Help Your Child Learn to Write Well
- Helping Your Child Learn Responsible Behavior (US Dept of Education)
- Helping Your Child Use the Library (U.S. Department of Education) 8-02
- Homeschooling - Estimates on Numbers (CNN)
Provides estimates on the number of children being taught at home as of 1999. 6-01
- Law - Homeschooling Law and Legalities (A to Z Home's Cool - Zeise)
Provides over a dozen articles to help with legal requirements for homeschooling. 6-01
- Listening Skills (CASAA)
Provides suggestions for improving listening skills.
- Listening Skills (KidSource OnLine - Smith)
Provides suggestions to improve listening skills.
- Long-Term Illnesses (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Provides basic suggestions. 1-04
- Preschool Experts (ParentsPlace)
See the Ask Our Experts Box.
- Private Schools Interscholastic Association
Provides scholastic contests for students in private schools and home schools. 12-00
- Reading Readiness Suggestions (U.S. Department of Education)
Provides recommendations to parents to help them prepare their children to become good readers. 2-01
- Research on Home Schooling (NHERI - Ray)
Provides statistics on home schooling success. 6-99
- Scheduling Home Schooling (Home2Teach.com)
Discusses different types of schedules and the benefits for each. Provides a chart comparing and describing a traditional schedule with a Unit Study approach. 8-01
- Socialization and Home Schooling (Home2Teach.com)
Discusses how home schooling provides a preferred set of opportunities for socialization. 8-01
- Starting a Christian School - A Checklist (A Beka)
Provides a checklist for starting a Christian school, with an emphasis on using A Beka books and materials. 3-04
- Tips for Home Schoolers (FamilyEducation Network)
Provides 10 tips for successful home schooling. 9-99
Projects
- For Christian Kids and Teens (Christian Links for Kids and Teens - Belleville)
Provides devotional activities, services, games, and other resources to help kids and teens practice their Christian faith. 7-00
- Helping Your Child Learn During Summer
- Helping Your Child Learn Geography (U.S. Department of Education)
- Helping Your Child Learn History
- Helping Your Child Learn Responsible Behavior
- Helping Your Child Learn Science
- Helping Your Child Learn Science
- Helping Your Child Learn to Read
- Helping Your Child Learn to Write Well
- Math Activities (Houghton Mifflin Company)
Provides puzzles and quizzes for elementary level children. 1-01
- Math Readiness Suggestions (U.S. Department of Education)
Provides recommendations to parents to help them prepare their children to become good at math. 2-01
- Science Readiness Suggestions (U.S. Department of Education)
Provides recommendations to parents to help them prepare their children to become good at science. 2-01
- Writing Readiness Suggestions (U.S. Department of Education)
Provides recommendations to parents to help them prepare their children to become good writers. 2-01
Purchase Resources
- Books - Used Books for Home Schooling (The Swap - Acker and Theriot)
Provides opportunities to purchase used books and curriculum materials directly from other homeschoolers. 2-00
- Books Written for Elementary School Teachers (Amazon.com)
Provides lessons, curricula, teaching strategies, and more. 1-02
- Books Written for High School Teachers (Amazon.com)
Provides lessons, curricula, teaching strategies, and more. 1-02
- Books Written for Middle School Teachers (Amazon.com)
Provides lessons, curricula, teaching strategies, and more. 1-02
- Books Written for Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers (Amazon.com)
Provides lessons, curricula, teaching strategies, and more. 1-02
- Books for Home Schooling (Excite)
Provides sources for books and curriculum materials for homeschoolers. 2-00
- Christian Home Schooling Textbooks (Pensacola Christian College - A Beka Book)
Provides books that teach from a Christian perspective. 6-00.
- Home Schooling Resources (Jackson)
Provides sources of information (not the resources themselves) to supplement K-12 education.
Worksheets
- Alphabet Worksheets (AbcTeach)
Provides hundreds of printable worksheets to help children (by grade level) master the alphabet, shapes, and colors. 8-01
- Alphabet and Numbers Practice (Learning Page.com)
Includes pictures and practice sheets to help young children learn how to write letters of the alphabet and numbers. Includes Zaner-Blozer, D'Lealian, and cursive styles of writing. Requires Acrobat Reader. 5-00
- Color Worksheets (AbcTeach)
Provides worksheets to teach the basic colors. 8-01
- Organizers for Improving Papers (Houghton Mifflin Company)
Provides over two dozen graphic organizers to help a student improve effectiveness in writing. 1-01.
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