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Homeschooling Resources
1. Curriculum Sources, Periodicals, Organizations
2. Suggested Reading List
3. Homeschooling High Schoolers Resource List.
Curriculum Sources, Periodicals, Organizations
TRADITIONAL TEXTBOOKS (Christian)
ABeka Book Publications, PO Box 19100, Pensacola, FL 32523-9100, 1-877-ABEKA BOOK, http://www.abeka.com
Bob Jones University Press, Greenville, SC 29614-0062, 1-800-845-5731, http://www.bjup.com
COMPLETE INDIVIDUALIZED LEARNING PROGRAMS
Alpha Omega Publications, 300 N. McKemy Ave., Chandler, AZ 85226, 1-800-622-3070, http://www.aop.com
School of Tomorrow (ACE), PO Box 299000, Lewisville, TX 75029-9000, 1-800-925-7777, http://www.schooloftomorrow.com
CURRICULUM AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPLIES
Builder Books, PO Box 5789, Lynnwood, WA 98046-5789, 1-800-260-5461,
http://www.bbhomeschoolcatalog.com
Critical Thinking Books and Software, PO Box 448, Pacific Grove, CA 93950-0448, 1-800-458-4849, http://www.criticalthinking.com
Educators Publishing Service, Box 9031, 625 Mt. Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02139-9031, 1-800-435-7728, http://www.epsbooks.com
Elijah Company, 1053 Eldridge Loop, Crossville, TN 38571, 1-888-2ELIJAH, http://www.elijahco.com
Geography Matters, P.O.Box 92, Nancy, KY 42544, 1-606-636-4678, http://www.geomatters.com
God’s World Books, PO Box 20003, Asheville, NC 28802-8203, 1-888-492-2307 (also publishes a Christian “Weekly Reader”), http://www.gwbc.com
Greenleaf Press, 3761 Hwy 109 North, Lebanon, TN 37087, 1-800-311-1508, http://www.greenleafpress.com
Lifetime Books and Gifts, 3900 Chalet Suzanne Dr., Lake Wales, FL 33859-6881, 1-800-377-0390, http://www.lifetimebooksandgifts.com
Rainbow Resource, Route 1, Box 159A, Toulon, IL 61483, 1-888-841-3456,
http://www.rainbowresource.com
Beginnings Publishing House (Rainbow Science ), 328 Shady Lane, Alvaton, KY 42122, 1-800- 831-3570, http://www.beginningspublishing.com
Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd., 8042 South Grant Way, Littleton, CO 80122-2705, 1-303-730-6292, http://www.sonlight.com
Timberdoodle, E 1510 Spencer Lake Rd., Shelton, WA 98584, 1-360-426-0672,
http://www.timberdoodle.com
USED CURRICULUM SOURCES
http://www.vegsource.com/homeschool
http://homeschool.crecon.com/classifieds/classifieds.cgi
http://www.thebackpack.com/
http://listings.ebay.com/aw/plistings/list/category11438/index.html
http://www.edexbooks.com
http://www.greathomeschoolbooks.com
http://www.homeschoolusedbooks.com
HOME SCHOOLING PERIODICALS AND WEBSITES
Ecelectic Homeschool Online, http://www.eho.org.
Home Education Magazine, PO Box 1083, Tonasket, WA 98855; 1-800-236-3278, http://www.homeedmag.com.
Homeschooling Today, PO Box 436 Barker, TX 77413, 1-281-492-6050., http://www.homeschooltoday.com
Practical Homeschooling, PO Box 11900, Fenton, MO 63026-1190, 1-800-346-6322, http://www.home-school.com
The Teaching Home, PO Box 20219, Portland, OR 97294, 1-503-253-9633, http://www.teachinghome.com
Ecclectic Homeschool Online, http://www.eho.org
ARTS AND CRAFT CATALOGS
Miller Pads and Paper, 2840 Neff Rd, Boscobel WI 53805, 1-608-375-2181,
http://www.millerpadsandpaper.com
S & S Arts and Crafts (art supplies, art kits, and educational products), P.O. Box 513, 75 Mill St., Colchester, CT 06415, 1-800-243-9232, http://www.ssww.com
Oriental Trading Company, 1-800-875-8480, http://www.orientaltrading.com
CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS
K-12 ABeka Academy, Box 18000, Pensacola FL 32523-9160, 1-800-874-3592 (also offer video courses), http://www.abekaacademy.org
9-12 American School, 2200 E. 170th St., Lansing, IL 60438, 1-800-531-9268,
http://www.americanschoolofcorr.com
9-12 Bob Jones University Press, Greenville, SC 29614-0062, 1-800-845-5731(Correspondence School, Satellite & Video Courses), http://www.bjup.com
K-8 Calvert School, 10713 Gilroy Rd. Suite B, Hunt Valley, MD 21031-3098, 1-888-487-4652, http://www.calvertschool.org
K-12 Christian Liberty Academy (CLASS or CLA), 502 W. Euclid, Arlington Heights, IL 60004-5495 1-800-348-0899, http://www.class-homeschools.org
K-12 Covenant Home Curriculum, N63 W23421 Main St., Sussex, WI 53089, 1-800-578-2421, http://www.covenanthome.com
9-12 KY Virtual High School, 1-866-432-0008, http://www.kvhs.org
K-12 Moore Foundation, Box 1, Camas, WA 98607, 1-800-891-5255, http://www.moorefoundation.com
K-12 Our Lady of the Rosary School, 1010 Withrow Court, Bardstown, KY 40004, 1-502-348-1338, http://www.olrs.com
K-12 Seton Home Study School (Catholic), 1350 Progress Dr., Front Royal, VA 22630, 1-540-636-9990, http://www.setonhome.org
K-12 Summit Christian Academy, PO Box 2769, Cedar Hill, TX 75106-2769, 1-800-362-9180, http://www.scahomeschool.com
6-12 University of Kentucky, Independent Study Program (Middle School/High School Correspondence), Room 1 Frazee Hall, Lexington, KY 40506-0031, 1-800-432-0963, http://www.uky.edu/UExt/independent_study/ISPHS.html
STATE SUPPORT GROUPS
KHEA - Kentucky Home Education Association, P.O. Box 51591, Bowling Green, KY 42102-5891, 270-779-6574.
CHEK - Christian Home Educators of Kentucky, 691 Howardstown Rd., Hodgenville, KY 42748, 270-358-9270, http://www.chek.org
LEGAL PROTECTION
HSLDA - Home School Legal Defense Association, PO Box3000, Purcellville, VA 20134-9000, 1-540-338-5600, http://www.hslda.org
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Suggested Reading List - Reference and How-to Books
Note: These books can be checked out from your local public library through interlibrary loan. Ask your librarian about it. Most are listed under the call number 649.68
Armstrong, Thomas, In Their Own Way.
Explains learning styles. Chapters on attitude, imagination, attention, self-esteem and more.
Ballman, Ray, The How and Why of Home Schooling
Beechick, Ruth, You Can Teach Your Child Successfully. Grades 4-8
Bell, Debra, The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling
Bendt, Valerie, How to Create Your Own Unit Study
Boyer Rick, Home Educating with Confidence
Brady, Vicki A., The Basic Steps to Successful Homeschooling Vital Issues Press
Cannon, Inge P., How To Present Home Education In The Best Possible Light (Audio Cassette Tape) PO Box 1350, Taylors, SC 29687, info@edplus.com
Colfax, David and Micki, Home-Schooling for Excellence. Exciting account of the family that sent three home-schooled sons to Harvard.
Davis, Llewellyn, Going Home to School
Dobson, James, Parenting Isn’t For Cowards.
Encouragement for parents to know and appreciate their child’s Individual personality and temperament.
Dobson, Linda, The Homeschooling Book of Answers: The 88 Most Important Questions
Duffy, Cathy, The Christian Home Educator’s Curriculum Manual - Elementary Vol. & Jr/Sr High. Great resource for helping you choose a curriculum.
Dunn, Kenneth and Rita, Teaching: Students Through Their Individual Learning Styles. Explores the idea of learning styles through Environmental preferences and multi sensory approaches.
Elkind, David, The Hurried Child.
Elkind, David, Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk.
Discusses the real difference between the mind of a preschool child and that of a school-age child. Warns us of the risks of early miseducation.
Farris, Michael P, Homeschooling: Father. An ideal book for homeschooling fathers.
Fugate, Richard, Successful Home Schooling
Gaither, Gloria and Shirley Dobson, Let’s Make a Memory. Great ideas for building family traditions and togetherness.
Gelner College Admissions: A Guide for Homeschoolers
Gorder, Cheryl, Home Education Resource Guide
Gorder, Cheryl, Home Schools: An alternative: You Do Have a Choice!
Griffith, Mary, The Homeschooling Handbook: For Preschool to High School
Guterson, David, Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense
Harris, Greg, The Christian Home School.
Hendrickson, Borg, How to Write a Low Cost/ No Cost Curriculum for Your Home-school Child
Hensley, Sharon, Home Schooling Children with Special Needs
Herzog, Joyce, Learning In Spite Of Labels, Greenleaf Press
Holt, John, Teach Your Own. Holt confronts the common objections to homes schooling and discusses ways we can allow children to learn outside of schools.
Hubbs, Don, Home Education Resource Guide
Jeske, Patrick J., Bring Out the Best in Your Child. Covers methods of motivation and topics such as instilling self- confidence, controlling laziness and dealing with stubbornness.
Klicka, Christopher., The Right Choice: The Incredible Failure of Public Education and the Rising Hope of Home Schooling. This book will mentally and emotionally prepare parents to meet opposition from school officials, government agencies or uninformed outsiders.
Klicka, Christopher J., The Case for Home Schooling: A Constitutional & Academic Perspective on the Home Schooling Movement
Lewellyn, Grace, Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don’t Go to School
Lopez, Diane, Teaching Children. A guide to what children need to know at each level through 6th grade.
McAlister & Oneschack, Homeschooling the High Schooler - Vol. 1&2
McCullough, Bonnie, 401 Ways to Get Your Kids to Work at Home.
McEwan, Elaine, How To Raise Reader. Tips on helping your child read well with age-graded recommendations of best children’s books.
MacCauley, Susan Schaeffer, For the Children’s Sake.
Mason, Charlotte, The Original Home Schooling Series
Moore, D. and Raymond, Home Spun Kids: Teaching Children at Home
Moore, D. and Raymond, The Successful Homeschooling Family Handbook
Moore, Dr. Raymond and Dorothy, School Can Wait.
Documentation from many fields upholding the premise of the title. Ideal book for the teacher or professional.
Moore, Dr. Raymond and Dorothy, Home Grown Kids.
Guidelines for emotional and intellectual development from 0-9 years old.
Moore, Dr. Raymond and Dorothy, Home-Style Teaching. Insights on how to become a great teacher/mom.
Pride, Mary, The Big Book of Home Learning.
Another great book to help you choose a curriculum, reviews a wide variety of publishers and their products.
Pride, Mary, Schoolproof
Ray, Brian D. Ph.D., Strengths of Their Own, NHERI Publications, bray@nheri.org
Ray, Brian D., Ph.D., Worldwide Guide To Homeschooling, Broadman & Holman Publishers
Shackelford, Luanna and Susan White, A Survivor’s Guide to Homeschooling. Written with wisdom, candor and humor, the authors share situations, solutions, successes and yes, even the failures home teacher’s face.
Sheffer, Susannah, A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls
Sutton, Joe. P. & Connie J., Strategies for Struggling Learners, Exceptional Diagnostics, 220 Douglas Dr., Simpsonville, SC 29681, suttonjp@juno.com
Tobias, Cynthia, The Way They Learn. Explains how to discover and teach to your child’s strengths.
Trelease, Jim, The Read-Aloud Handbook. Answers the question how and why to read aloud to your child. Includes an extensive list of the best books.
Wade, Ted, The Home School Manual
Wheeler, Richard “Little Bear,” WARNING! Public Schools Aren’t For Christians,Mantle Ministries Press
mantle3377@aol.com
Wilson, Elizabeth, Books Children Love. Commentaries on hundreds of quality books in over two dozen subject areas.
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Homeschooling High Schoolers Resource List
And What About College by Cafi Cohen
Christian Home Educator’s Curriculum Manual, Jr./Sr. High School (vol.2) by Cathy Duffy. If you can only buy one book, then this is the one to buy!! This book will answer most of your questions and give you direction as far a curriculum choices, record keeping, etc.
College Admissions: A Guide for Homeschoolers by Gelner. This is a journal of how one home school family prepared for and gained admittance to college.
Homeschooling for Excellence by Colfax. This is the story of how and why the Colfax family raised and educated their three oldest sons at home. All three of these boys went on to attend either Yale or Harvard.
Homeschooling The Teen Years by Cafi Cohen. Cafi homeschooled her two children all the way through high school using a little bit of everything, so she speaks from experience about teaching teens at home.
Home School, High School, and Beyond by Beverly Adams-Gordon. Helps the student determine goals, and chart a course through high school, keeping good records as they go along.
Hot House Transplants by Matt Duffy. Interviews of fifteen home school graduates who have successfully gone on to college, careers, and marriages. They share the ups and downs of home schooling, the pros and cons, and how home schooling changed their lives forever.
Independent Study Catalog by Peterson. A guide to locating correspondence courses and schools. Available from Lifetime Books.
Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don’t Go to School by Grace Llewellyn. Real life stories written by these eleven teens about how and why they pursued a very non-traditional high school education at home. Available from Lowry House Publishers, P.O. Box 1014, Eugene, Oregon 97440-1014.
Senior High: A Home-Designed Form-U-La by Barbara Edtl Shelton is a 350-page guide to home schooling through the high school years for those seeking a real-life, non-traditional education. It gives step-by-step instructions for formulating your own, independent program of study. The book is written from a religious perspective.
The Home School Manual by Ted Wade, Answers general home schooling questions. It has several chapters exclusively pertaining to the high school years. This book has lots of “how to” information. If you have never home schooled before and would just be starting, this is the best book to buy for general home schooling information.
The Home Schooler’s High School Journal is a version of The Home Schooler’s Journal for high school aged students to use by themselves. It organizes record keeping pages to keep track of credit hours earned in each subject area.
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