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Over 300 irregular infinitive (root) verbs along with their simple past and past participle are included in this chart of words from A-Z.

Thanksgiving Its Origin, Celebration and Significance
as Related in Prose and Verse
By Robert Haven Schauffler
This free historical book, written in 1915, features over 200 pages of information (in the form of stories and poems) the American Thanksgiving Day.  It would be a great addition to any November curriculum!
Download this entire book for free here.

The following article was found in the 1908 public domain book, A History of the Middle Ages By Dana Carleton Munro.  You can download this entire book for free by clicking on the link above!
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DURING the early middle ages teaching was done wholly by the clergy. In some of the towns and villages there were elementary [...]

Poems of american history By Burton Egbert Stevenson
This amazing poetry anthology, written in 1908 , offers poems written about America from Colonial times up through the turn of the 1900’s.  With 700 pages of poetry, there are literally hundreds of poems about any historical American subject you can think of!  It offers a very valuable [...]

Games and Songs of American Children By William Wells Newell
This book, written in 1884 and available for free download here, is a gem of a find!  Don’t we all remember little games we played with our friends as children?  History buffs will especially love this book!
Sometimes the game is described in detail (with reference to [...]

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Help your child develop weather recognition with this 
FREE DAILY WEATHER POSTER
 from Homeschool Fever.
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(Instructions included in the PDF file)
 

Primary Education
Here is a semi-unit study on the Pied Piper of Hamlin for language arts. 
The Pied Piper is a fairy tale of sorts about the abduction of children in Hamelin, Germany.  This book contains background information, 2 8×10 posters, the full play, music score, and paper dolls.  Other books from the library can be [...]

Primary Education
This adorable (and very long!) public domain book, which can be downloaded and printed out for free here, offers a variety of games, songs, poems for children. Activities are broken up week by week and into subjects (hygeine, phonics, music, drawing, and even seatwork).
Children’s music score sheets, coloring pages, detailed articles about teaching [...]

Read, download, and print the following Beatrix Potter books. Beatrix Potter is recommended reading for all children, and is included in many homeschool curriculums such as Ambleside Online’s book list.

Roly Poly Pudding

The Pie and the Patty Pan

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Edward William Dolch, PhD, originally published this list of sightwords in his book Problems in Reading in 1948.
The list was based on children’s books of his era. It contains 220 words that must be easily recognized in order to achieve reading fluency. The compilation excludes nouns, which comprise a separate 95-word list.
Many of [...]

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Edward William Dolch, PhD, originally published this list of sightwords in his book Problems in Reading in 1948.
The list was based on children’s books of his era. It contains 220 words that must be easily recognized in order to achieve reading fluency. The compilation excludes nouns, which comprise a separate 95-word list.
Many of the 220 [...]

Are you looking for a quality publisher that has wonderful non-fiction living books that you can add to your home collection?
Usborne Publishing is the leading provider of colorful, children-friendly “teaching” picture books. While non-fiction learning is their main priority, they also provide many colorful fictional books, including classics, puzzles, games, and early reader books.
Popular “living [...]

This theory says that children construct meaning from books based not just on text or the specific genre, but by relying on their own background knowledge. The reader’s personal experience, preferences, and feelings construct the true meaning of the text. Therefore meaning is found in the transaction between reader and text.
Importance: This theory is important [...]