Well Trained Mind Homeschool Supplies
Grammar, Writing Instruction, Story of the World, Audio Books
Kindergarten Math With Confidence
Carefully sequenced, confidence building lessons help children develop a strong understanding of math, step by step. Daily review ensures they fully master what they have learned. This blend of conceptual understanding and traditional Skill practice will prepare your children for first grade. Scripted lessons.
Comprehensive coverage of K math skills:
counting to 100
writing numbers
beginning addition and subtraction
shapes and patterns
coins, time, and measurement
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First Grade Math With Confidence by Kate Snow
Comprehensive coverage of all essential first grade math topics
With this scripted, open-and-go program, parents can help their children master all the concepts typically covered in first grade:
- counting, comparing, and writing numbers to 100
- addition and subtraction facts to 20
- addition and subtraction word problems
- beginning place value and mental math
- shapes, money, time, and measurements
Your student will develop both strong number sense and a positive attitude towards math with fun activities like Addition Bingo, Pretend Store, and Measurement Scavenger Hunt. All you’ll need are this Instructor Guide, the Student Workbook, and simple household or classroom items (like play money, pattern blocks, objects to count, and a ruler) to make math come alive for your student.
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First Language Lessons Level 1
For the Well-Trained Mind
Jessie Wise
Grade 1; scheduled on the WBC Grade 1 Manual
Level 1 uses copywork, narration, picture study, and grammar lessons to teach your child his First Language Lessons.
First Language Lessons Level 2
For the Well-Trained Mind
A complete grammar text for young students, First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind, Level 2 uses dictation, narration, picture study, and other classical techniques to develop language ability.
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The Complete Writer: Writing with Ease instructor text
Young students who learn to write well need one-on-one instruction—something which your child’s classroom may not offer.
In The Complete Writer series, Susan Wise Bauer turns every parent into a writing teacher. No experience is needed.
Drawing on her fifteen years of experience in teaching writing, Susan lays out a carefully-designed sequence of steps that will teach every student to put words on paper with ease and grace. This alternative plan for teaching writing combines the best elements of old-fashioned writing instruction with innovative new educational methods—and explains why so many writing programs fail.
Designed for elementary-aged writers and for older students who still struggle, Writing With Ease builds a sturdy foundation of basic skills for grades 1–4 (or levels 1–4 for the older student who needs more work) all in the same book. Diagnostic tests within the book will help the parent to determine where the child needs to start and which workbook the child will need.
You can use the text by itself as a guide, then choose your own copywork and dictation; or you can buy the workbooks, which do all the work for you. Each workbook covers one grade.
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The Complete Writer: Writing With Ease Workbook 1
Workbook 1 provides every copywork assignment, comprehension question, and reading passage that you’ll need for a full year of writing study.
Using passages and sentences from classic children’s literature, Workbook 1 allows young writers to practice their skills while absorbing the style and grace of great authors.
Charming illustrations by Jeff West add a visual element that will spark your child’s imagination.
Take the tears out of writing…use Writing With Ease!
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Grades 1 +
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The Complete Writer: Writing With Ease Workbook 2
Workbook 2 provides every copywork assignment, comprehension question, and reading passage that you’ll need for a full year of writing study.
Using passages and sentences from classic children’s literature, Workbook 2 allows young writers to practice their skills while absorbing the style and grace of great authors.
Charming illustrations by Jeff West add a visual element that will spark your child’s imagination.
Take the tears out of writing…use Writing With Ease!
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Grades 2+
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The Complete Writer: Writing With Ease Workbook 3
Take the guesswork out of teaching writing!
This workbook provides every dictation assignment, comprehension question, and reading passage that you’ll need for a full year of writing instruction. Using passages and sentences from classic children’s literature, Writing With Ease Workbook: Level 3 allows young writers to practice their skills while absorbing the style and grace of great authors.
Charming illustrations by Jeff West add a visual element that will spark your child’s imagination.
Grades 3 +
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The Complete Writer: Writing With Ease Workbook 4
Take the guesswork out of teaching writing!
This workbook provides every dictation assignment, comprehension question, and reading passage that you’ll need for a full year of study. Using passages and sentences from classic children’s literature, Workbook: Level 4 allows young writers to practice their skills while absorbing the style and grace of great authors.
Here’s a secret you might not know: If your student completed Level 3 without difficulty, you don’t necessarily have to do Level 4. You can go straight into Writing With Skill or take a year to do creative writing.
Grades 4 +
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Writing with Skill level 1 set
Writing With Skill level 1 Instructor Text and Student workbook
Middle Grades - High School
This groundbreaking new writing series combines time-tested classical techniques–the imitation and analysis of great writers–with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and literature.
Skills Taught:
~ One- and two-level outlining
~ Writing chronological narratives, biographical sketches, scientific descriptions, and sequences across the curriculum
~ Constructing basic literary essays on fiction and poetry
~ Researching and documenting source material
Features of the Program:
~ Writing assignments are modeled on examples from great literature and classic nonfiction
~ Instructor Text provides scripted dialogue to use when the student has difficulty, plus detailed guidance on how to evaluate the student’s work
~ Student workbook encourages independence by directing all assignments to the student
~ Prepares students for high-level rhetoric and composition.
Grades 7 - High school "Age 13 or 14 is usually a fine time to start this curriculum."
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Writing with Skill Level 2 set
Middle Grades- High School
This groundbreaking writing series combines time-tested classical techniques–the imitation and analysis of great writers–with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and literature.
It is designed as the perfect next step for students who have completed Writing With Skill, Level One.
Skills Taught:
~ One-, two- and three-level outlining
~ Writing chronological narratives, biographical sketches, scientific descriptions, and sequences across the curriculum
~ Constructing critical literary essays on fiction and poetry
~ Researching and documenting source material
Features of the Program:
~ Writing assignments are modeled on examples from great literature and classic nonfiction
~ Instructor Text provides scripted dialogue to use when the student has difficulty, plus detailed guidance on how to evaluate the student’s work
~ Student workbook encourages independence by directing all assignments to the student
~ Second volume of a series that will prepare students for high-level rhetoric and composition
Grades 7-High school
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Writing with Skill Level 3 set
8th Grade- High School
Writing With Skill combines time-tested classical techniques–the imitation and analysis of great writers–with innovative contemporary insights. Models from great literature provide the student with inspiration, while step-by-step instructions explicitly teach the skills that other writing programs merely assign without explanation. Original writing assignments in history, science, biography and literature expand the student’s intellectual horizons.
Designed to be used along with Writing With Skill, Level Three: Student Workbook, this book turns every parent or teacher into a skilled writing instructor. Clear, detailed teaching instructions help you guide even reluctant writers into mastery of essential writing skills.
* Full instructor support: explanations, scripted discussion questions, model compositions, rubrics
* Detailed guidance on how to evaluate student work
* Designed to help the student work with increasing confidence and independence
* Help in integrating writing skills into the student’s other academic subjects
* Direction in the skills of note-taking and documentation
* Instructions in avoiding plagiarism
* Step-by-step assistance in teaching students to write narratives, sequences, definitions, explanations, comparisons and contrasts, biographical sketches, and much more
Grades advanced 8th grade- High school
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Story of the World Volume 1 Tests
Tests and answer key for
Story of the World Volume 1
Ancient Times
(you can buy one per student, or you are allowed to photocopy the tests FOR YOUR FAMILY ONLY)
Story of the World Vol. 1 Activity Book
Revised Edition.
Supplement for Story of the World volume 1 text
A complete history curriculum in one book. Use this alongside the Story of the World text to flesh out the stories and history that your children are learning. Reading lists, activities, map exercises, and coloring pages give a more complete picture of life in ancient times.
(you can buy one per student or you are allowed to photocopy the student pages WITHIN YOUR OWN FAMILY ONLY)
Story of the World Volume 2 Tests
Story of the World Vol. 2 Activity Book
Revised Edition
Supplement for Story of the World volume 2 text
Designed to turn the accompanying book (The Story of the World, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages) into a complete history program, this Activity Book provides you with comprehension questions and answers, sample narrations, maps and geography activities, coloring pages, lists of additional readings in history and literature, and plenty of simple, hands-on activities.
Story of the World Vol. 3 Tests
Story of the World Vol. 4 Tests
Story of the World Vol. 4 Activity Book
Supplement for Story of the World volume 4 text
This comprehensive activity book and curriculum guide contains all you need to make history come alive for your child. Along with the accompanying book Story of the World volume 4 this Activity Book provides a complete history, geography, and literature program for one year.
The History of the Ancient World By Bauer
Using the narrative approach to history so popular in the Story of the World series, Susan Wise Bauer introduces readers to the people, places, and events of the ancient world.
This lively and engaging narrative history shows the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history.
Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. This narrative history employs the methods of “history from beneath”–literature, epic traditions, private letters and accounts–to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them.
This book is ideal for high schoolers or for adults who want the great history instruction their children are receiving. Use the History of the Ancient World Study Guide to transform it into a full year of high school history study!
History of the Ancient World Study and Teaching Guide Bauer
This Study and Teaching Guide, designed for use by both parents and teachers, provides a full curriculum with study questions and answers, critical thinking assignments, essay topics, instructor rubrics, and test forms. Explanations for answers and teaching tips are also included.
HIGH SCHOOL