Parent Helps and How-To Books

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  • 7 Sisters - curriculum counseling and coaching service

    Vicki Tillman, Sabrina Justison, Marilyn Groop, and Kym Smythe offer virtual coaching services by appointment.

  • A Guide for Homeschooling Through High School

    free, extensive information on high school planning and requirements is available online from HSLDA

  • Align by Design Homeschool Consulting Ministry

    Brook Legg offers consulting services. Use her contact form for details.

  • Ambleside Schools International

    Ambleside Schools International trains and mentors homeschooling parents who want to provide a Charlotte Mason education for their children.

  • Bloom Homeschool Consulting

    Bloom Homeschool Consulting offers consulting services for Catholic homeschoolers with a range of options from a 15-minute consultation to monthly or yearly membership that includes a variety of support services.

  • Dara Halydier Homeschool Mentor

    Through Abiding Truth Ministry, Dara Halydier offers homeschool mentoring services.

  • DonnaYoung.org

    Donna Young maintains a site with free forms and tools for handwriting instruction, record keeping, transcript creation, attendance, lesson planning, and more.

  • Easy Teacher Worksheets

    Easy Teacher Worksheets offers free worksheets for PreK through high school under tabs for math, English language arts, social studies, science, and foreign language. There are also tabs for graphic organizers, holidays, and teacher printables. The site is supported by ads, so there is no push to sign up for premium access.

  • Everyday Homeschooling with Vicki

    Vicki Bentley, a veteran homeschooler and professional educational consultant, offers mentoring and coaching services to homeschooling parents.

  • Great Books Homeschool High School Guide

    This free guide is brief, focusing primarily on credits, college entry requirements, and transcripts. It links to their free transcript creation tool. 

  • Great Books Homeschool Transcript Generator

    This website has a free high school transcript generator that doesn't require account creation or registration, but you can create a free account to save your data.

  • Hey Congrats!

    Source for diplomas plus folders and frames.

  • Homeschool Library of Links

    "Homeschool Library provides quick and easy access to thousands of educational websites, curriculum, lesson plans, online books and courses, web-based learning activities, videos and games!" You can also subscribe to their daily "link of the day" for free.

  • KinderTown

    website that reviews apps for iPads and iPhones, providing an easy interface for finding useful educational apps for ages 3 to 8 for math, language, social studies, science, and art. See my brief review of KinderTown here.

  • Lesson Plan Ladies

    The Lesson Plan Ladies have created lesson plans for many resources for art, Bible, math, music, history and geography,  literature, penmanship, phonics, spelling, reading, and science,to make them easier to use. Among resources for which there are lesson plans are Spell to Write and Read, Saxon Math K through 2, and Story of the World.

  • Mommy Maestra: Comprensive List of Spanish Curricula

    best site I've found with lists and links for resources for families who are homeschooling their children bilingually or in Spanish

  • The Ocean Farmer Homeschool Consulting

    Nikki Farmer offers homeschool consultations, including help with curriculum selection .

  • The Old Schoolhouse Magazine

    FREE digital editions of this quarterly magazine

  • Tools for the Home Educator

    Veteran homeschooler and support group leader Penny Ross offers curriculum counseling and other support for parents via webinars, phone, Zoom, and in person.

  • WatchKnowLearn Educational Videos

    WatchKnowLearn catalogs hundreds of free educational videos "wiki-style." Videos are linked in both broad and sub-categories so it's easy to search. No registration required.

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Featured Parent Helps PreK through Grade 8 Resource

The Three R's

I have been recommending The Three R's for years as required reading for anyone teaching children in grades K through 3. Dr. Ruth Beechick originally wrote a set of three small books on how to teach math, reading, and language arts to children in grade K through 3 that were sold either as a set or individually. Those three small books have now been combined into a single 128-page book. Dr. Beechick has a remarkable talent for demystifying the educational process. She explains what needs to be accomplished, then presents easy and practical ways to meet those goals. She stresses the importance of parent/child interaction, real-life experience, and the value of reading "real" books. (This is very compatible with Charlotte Mason methodology.)

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