Well Trained Mind Homeschool Supplies
Grammar, Writing Instruction, Story of the World, Audio Books
Multiplication Facts that Stick
The fun, engaging program that will help your child master the multiplication facts once and for all―without spending hours and hours drilling flash cards!
Multiplication Facts That Stick will guide you, step-by- step, as you teach your child to understand and memorize the multiplication facts, from 1 x 1 through 10 x 10. Hands-on activities, fun games your child will love, and simple practice pages help young students remember the multiplication facts for good.
In 15 minutes per day (perfect for after school, or as a supplement to a homeschool math curriculum) your child will master the multiplication facts, gain a greater understanding of how math works, and develop greater confidence, in just ten weeks!
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Division Facts That Stick
The fun, engaging program that will help your child master the division facts once and for all―without spending hours and hours drilling flash cards!
Division Facts That Stick will guide you, step-by- step, as you teach your child to understand and memorize the division facts, from 1/1 through 100/10. Hands-on activities, fun games your child will love, and simple practice pages help young students remember the division facts for good.
In 15 minutes per day (perfect for after school, or as a supplement to a homeschool math curriculum) your child will master the division facts, gain a greater understanding of how math works, and develop greater confidence, in just ten weeks!
First Language Lessons Level 2
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. See a sample.
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Level 3 has two parts: the instructor book and the student workbook. The instructor book has the same simple-to-use, scripted format as the previous levels. The accompanying student workbook makes it easier for busy parents to spend more time teaching, and less time preparing (you don’t have to hand-draw any diagram frames!). See a Sample
89 Lessons + 7 Writing Letters Lessons +7 Dictionary Skills Lessons + 7 Oral Usage Lessons
A fuller grammar program than GUM Drops
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First Language Lessons, Level 3 reinforces the grammar and writing concepts introduced in the previous levels. It also introduces new material, including sentence diagramming.
Level 3 has two parts: the instructor book and the student workbook. The instructor book has the same simple-to-use, scripted format as the previous levels. The accompanying student workbook makes it easier for busy parents to spend more time teaching, and less time preparing (you don’t have to hand-draw any diagram frames!).
First Language Lessons Level 3 is designed to follow Levels 1 and 2, but can be used as a first grammar text for older students. The optional end-units on writing letters, dictionary skills, and oral usage allow you to tailor the instruction to the needs of your child. See a Sample
It’s all right here. Inside this book, you’ll find poems for memorization, empty sentence diagram frames, and blank lines perfectly sized for young students’ copywork, dictation, and narration.
First Language Lessons, Level 4, uses classical techniques of memorization, dictation, and narration to develop your child’s language ability in the important, foundational years of language study. The text covers a full range of grammar topics, including parts of speech, punctuation, sentence diagrams, and skills in beginning writing and storytelling. Optional end units provide practice in dictionary use a letter writing.
Scripted exercises provide a flexible framework for each lesson. The innovative question-and-answer format makes grammar concepts perfectly clear, while the accompanying workbook makes it possible for busy parents and teachers to spend more time teaching and less time preparing.
The set includes the Instructor Guide and Student Workbook; click on view details for ordering options.
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by Susan Wise Bauer/ Sequel series to First Language Lessons. Can be started anytime after 5th Grade. A Four-Year Program that takes you through high school. The Comprehensive Handbook of Rules & Core Instructor Text Years 1-4 you will purchase only once and use for all four years. Each subsequent year you will purchase the next student workbook & key only.
Everything you need to teach grammar.
4-Book Bundle includes: Comprehensive Handbook of Rules, Core Instructor Text Years 1-4, Student Purple Workbook 1, Student Purple workbook 1 Key
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The Complete Writer: Writing with Ease instructor text
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.
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!
Not sure that this is the right level? Check out this diagnostic evaluation.
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!
Not sure that this is the right level? Check out this diagnostic evaluation.
Grades 2+
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The Complete Writer: Writing With Ease Workbook 3
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.
Not sure that this is the right level? Check out this diagnostic evaluation.
Grades 3 +
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The Complete Writer: Writing With Ease Workbook 4
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.
And if you’re working with a beginner, don’t start with Level 4. Do the diagnostic tests instead. Starting with Level 4 will frustrate your student.
Not sure that this is the right level? Check out this diagnostic evaluation.Grades 4 +
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Writing with Skill level 1 set
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 6 - High school
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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
Story of the World Vol. 1 Activity Book
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.
Story of the World Volume 2 Tests
Story of the World Vol. 2 Activity Book
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. 3 Activity Book
A wealth of activities, review worksheets, map work, and games to supplement The Story of the World, Volume 3.
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
Animal Tales (Audio CD)
Audio CD featuring stories from Aesop, the Brothers Grimm, and others, as told by Jim Weiss.
Fairytale Favorites Audio CD
as told and sung by Jim Weiss
Ages 5+
Jim Weiss will delight you and your children with these classics of imagination and wonder.
Stone Soup (includes song: Stone Soup)
Puss in Boots (includes song: The Pussycat Rag)
The Shoemaker & the Elves
Rapunzel
Uncle Wiggily's Storybook (audio CD)
Howard R. Garris's charming and endearing stories of Uncle Wiggly Longears, the kindhearted, resourceful rabbit gentleman who ingeniously helps his animal and human friends.
You'll hear the tales of Uncle Wiggly and the Elephant, Uncle Wiggly and the Rich Cat, and more!
Ten Thousand Stars Audio CD
Audio CD
selected and preformed by Jim Weiss
Well Trained Mind Press
The Reluctant Dragon Audio CD
Everyone is in a panic–a dragon has been discovered in a cave near the town! The people call for that famous dragon-slaying knight, Saint George, to defeat the monstrous beast. But when one smart little boy actually meets the dragon, he finds a harmless, friendly creature who would much rather write poems than burn villages. Can the boy find a way to make peace before the knight and the dragon have to fight?
Written by: Kenneth Grahame
Preformed by: Jim Weiss
I Said I Could, And I Did Audio CD
True stories of 20th-Century men and women whose gifts transformed the world. (Suggested for ages 7 and up.)
Audio CD
Women in Blue or Gray Audio CD
Thrilling true stories of brave women who freed slaves, helped the sick, and spoke up for the truth. These tales from the American Civil War are brought to life in this recording by master storyteller Jim Weiss.
Shakespeare for Children Audio CD
As told by Jim Weiss
The Count of Monte Cristo (audio CD)
Young sailor Edmond Dantes has it all--a loving fiancee, a bright future--but when jealous friends and political plots entangle him, he is thrown into a dreaded island prison for life. Who he meets and what he learns there will send him on a wild journey full of last-minute escapes, buried treasure, and the hardest question of all: will he seek revenge on those who tried to ruin him, or will he find a better path?
Jim Weiss has adapted Alexandre Dumas' massive book into an exciting audio recording that parents and children alike will enjoy, and brings to life a colorful cast of characters.
Julius Caesar and the Story of Rome Audio CD
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