• Authors - Homeschooling on a Shoestring
    Homeschooling,  Literature

    American Girl Books

    Activities for All American Girl Books Lapbook Templates chose from basic templates or character mini books. By Year List Kaya 1764 Felicity Merriman 1774 Josefina Montoya 1824 Marie-Grace Gardner 1853 Kirsten Larson 1854 Addy Walker 1864 Samantha Parkington 1904 Rebecca … [continue reading]

  • Corduroy by Don Freeman
    Homeschooling,  Literature

    Corduroy

    Corduroy by Don Freeman Activities & worksheets, links & additional suggested materials, links, prepared units, other online printables for this book. A Journal for Corduroy https://web.archive.org/web/20050308165257/http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=30 A Pocket for Corduroy Activity Guide A Pocket for Corduroy Bilingual Activity Guide Bear … [continue reading]

  • The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida
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    The Bracelet

    Yoshiko Uchida’s The Bracelet is an exceptional book about friendship. During World War II, Emi, a young Japanese American girl, and her family are made to leave the lives they know and are sent to an internment camp. Her father … [continue reading]

  • Homeschooling,  Literature

    If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

    If you Give a Mouse a Cookie A Kinder Concert 3 Blind Mice http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/Kiddie-Records/Week_19/The-Korn-Kobblers_A-Kiddie-Korncert_02.mp3 A to Z Teacher Stuff http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/483.shtml Book Breaks: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie http://www.dltk-teach.com/books/mousecookie.html FamilyEducation.com activities and printables http://school.familyeducation.com/literature/childrens-book/34679.html?detoured=1 Harpers Children Buy the … [continue reading]

  • Homeschooling,  Literature

    Bridge to Terabithia

    Bridge to Terabithia http://www.nt.net/~torino/bridge.html http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading20/bridge.htm Activities http://tiger.towson.edu/~gschro2/childrenslit/award/bridgetoterabithia.htm Friends and Friendships http://www.aboutourkids.org/aboutour/articles/friends.html Glencoe Literature Library http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/bridge_to_terebithia.pdf My Friends and I… Book A Printable Book for Early Readers What do you do with your friends? Use this book to write it down… [continue reading]

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    The Color Purple

    The Color Purple Literature Based Theme has free and low-cost activities, lesson plans, lapbooks, study guides, suggested additional materials, and more. Be sure to learn about the author, Alice Walker. Novel The Color Purple from the author’s site. Spark … [continue reading]

  • Homeschooling,  Literature

    Series of Unfortunate Events

    13 Shocking Secrets (there’s a pdf to download) This invaluable booklet is intended to prepare you for The End. It contains unsettling information about Lemony Snicket, the Baudelaire orphans, and a secret organization that is watching you right now. http://www.lemonysnicket.com/shockingsecrets.cfm… [continue reading]

  • Authors - Homeschooling on a Shoestring
    History,  Literature

    Women’s History

    Women’s History Literature Based Theme American Women’s History Month Word search puzzle https://wordmint.com/public_puzzles/72843 Womans History Teachers Pay Teachers freebies https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:Womans%20History/Price-Range/Free Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Word search (use as Vocabulary) https://wordmint.com/public_puzzles/25521 Word search http://www.whenwewordsearch.com/word_search/eleanor_roosevelt/44566/word_search.jsp Activity, graphic organizer, vocabulary and … [continue reading]

  • History,  Literature

    Slavery and the Civil War

    Slavery and the Civil War Literature Based Theme An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. SAD short Story https//www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/375 Reliving History Through Slave Narratives. After reading narratives from former slaves that were recorded in the 1930’s as part of the Federal … [continue reading]