Ten years of Homeschooling - English

I’ve only been homeschooling for 10 years, but I have a pretty long list of English curriculums/resources I’ve used ;-).

Here goes:

Rod & Staff

Evan-Moor Grammar and Punctuation

Sonlight English

Easy Grammar

Learning Language Arts through Literature

Writing Strands

MFW 1^st grade

Editor and Chief

Total Language Plus

Wordsmith

English from the Roots UP

A Beka

Sandy Queen Language Lessons

And BJU Press

A few of these curriculums had pieces I really loved. I thought marking out prepositional phrases was a neat idea in Easy Grammar. I enjoyed the Orange Book in LLATL when we did poetry. I really enjoyed using the poetry selections from Sandi Queen’s Language Lessons and doubling them as speech work for my son who needed it. “Whose woods these are I think I know” is music to your ears when it is your own child reciting it. I loved Total Language Plus’s Amos Fortune Free Man study. It had such a neat correlation to our freedom in Christ. I liked the dictation part of that study, and I enjoyed reading things my kids wrote. I found Editor in Chief to be an excellent and challenging resource for proofreading. So there you know, I am aware of a world out there other than BJU Press.

I am now on my 3^rd year of using BJU Press English. It’s a record!

I’ll put a review of BJU Press English in another post soon.