Bob Jones Exploring Literature Grade 7 Homeschool kit, 3rd Edition

Revised to even higher standards, Explorations in Literature is filled with facts to simulate thoughtful discussions and help students develop broader applications. Develop a love of literature in your students as they spend the year reading through deeper selections that focus on the topics of courage, nature & man, generosity, our land, humility and family. Introductory essays relate primary themes to scripture, while each unit concludes with a Bible passage that supports that chapter's theme. 3rd Edition.

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Learning Language Arts Through Literature, Grade 7, Activity Green

This Student Activity Book makes teaching and record keeping a breeze. A reproduction of each literature passage simplifies the student's editing. This book holds your student's work in one easy to store volume -- no more loose papers. It also contains great enrichment activities not inlcuded in the Teacher's Edition. You get additional creative exercises that expand the student's knowledge and skills. These activities, which can be done independently, include: Word Puzzles that reinforce vocabulary training with crossword and other exciting puzzles. Analogy Study which gives step by step instruction on important concept relationships. Logic and Reasoning activities to challenge your student with engaging exercises requiring abstract reasoning.. (Answers found in Teacher Book listed below.)

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Learning Language Arts Through Literature, Grade 7, Teacher Green

Features you will find in this book:

• 36 weekly lessons divided into daily plans.
• 3 Book Studies (listed in the order they appear): The Star of Light by Patricia St. John; Adam and His Kin by Ruth Beechick; Much Ado About Nothing Play by Shakespeare.
• Everyday words taken from literature teach grammar, spelling, and writing through dictation, diagramming, and a variety of activities.
• Sentence diagramming takes your students step-by-step through this important skill, giving them a deeper understanding of grammar and writing.
• A poetry unit deepens the student's appreciation of poetry by writing, memorizing, and illustrating poems.
• A short story unit gives your students a systematic and creative system for creating stories on their own. All the essentials for effective writing are included.
• A research unit teaches the "hows" and "whys" of research and investigative writing.
• Teacher-friendly assessments provide everything you need to evaluate students for a letter grade. Also great for determining the areas of growth needed for each individual student.

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Drawn Into The Heart of Reading, Student 6-8

Drawn into the Heart of Reading is designed to help you guide students toward becoming better readers. This literature-based curriculum can be used for multiple age levels simultaneously, and can be used with any literature; it can be individualized to meet the needs of every reader. Nine units are included: each of which can be used in any order for students in varying grade levels; and each contains enough material to last the entire school year.

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Drawn into the Heart of Reading: Teacher's Guide

Drawn into the Heart of Reading is designed to help you guide students toward becoming better readers. This literature-based curriculum can be used for multiple age levels simultaneously, and can be used with any literature; it can be individualized to meet the needs of every reader. Nine units are included: each of which can be used in any order for students in varying grade levels; and each contains enough material to last the entire school year.

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McGuffey's Eclectic Readers Primer through the Sixth Reader 7 Volumes

This revision of McGuffey's Eclectic Readers features materials applicable to the various reading levels. Many of the stories, poems, and pictures appear as they did in the first edition, but with a more readable print and also a different layout. Each of the volumes is geared to a particular reading level, and provides vocabulary, phonics and cursive writing exercises. These are based on the original readers, with some minor revisions to make the language more understandable for the current times. Stories and poems have been added. There is a primer and six volumes of readers, each reader progressing to a higher grade level. Could be utilized for entire school experience.

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The Prairie Primer: A Literature Based Unit Study Utilizing the Little House Series

No other stories have captured the hearts of 8- to 12-year-olds quite like the Little House on the Prairie series. Now these time-honored tales serve as the basis for a comprehensive homeschool unit---including cross-curricular studies in Bible, literature, science, art, creative writing, cooking, and history! Features twelve 4-week lesson plans for use with grades 3 to 6. Additional materials required. 283 pages, softcover from Cadron Creek.

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The Laura Years, Little House on the Prairie Series 5-Volume Boxed Set (Softcover)

The stories of Laura Ingalls Wilder's adventures as a pioneer girl growing up on the frontier are cherished classics. Enjoy reading about Laura's early years in: Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, and The Long Winter. Recommended for ages 8 to 12.

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Reading Comprehension in Varied Subject Matter, Grade 7

Used successfully by classroom teachers, tutors, ESL teachers, and parents, these workbooks have just been revised and updated, with the addition of new reading selections, new vocabulary, and a new writing exercise. Each workbook has thirty-one selections in different subject areas. Within each workbook there are themes that relate the selections to one another, show different aspects of a topic, and give students a broad knowledge of the topic.

Selections follow a consistent format: About the Passage introduces the selection to the the reader; Reason for Reading explains the reading skill emphasized; The Selection; Thinking it Over lists two to three broad questions to be answered in writing; Studying the Passage asks questions about the main idea, facts, and sequence, and asks students to draw conclusions, make assumptions, and interpret. Using the Words encourages students to use new vocabulary words in a paragraph, and Writing About It has students answer questions about the contents of the selection and offer their interpretation or opinion. 92 pages, paperback.

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Reading Tutor: Sports Gr 4-8+

High-interest, age-appropriate stories and activities that improve reading skills for students of all reading abilities, especially for the reluctant student. The activities in the series focus on a variety of concepts and skills including:

• grammar basics
• using the Internet and other types of reference sources
• sequencing, comparing and contrasting
• finding the main idea
• differentiating between facts and opinion
• and using context clues to expand vocabulary

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Children's Books and Their Creators

Unique in its coverage of contemporary American children's literature, this is a timely single-volume reference covering the books our children are--or could be--reading now, from board books to young adult novels. Entries by nearly 200 experts inform and guide readers about every aspect of children's literature.

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The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy

Travel back to a mythical time when Achilles, aided by the gods, waged war against the Trojans. And join Odysseus on his journey through murky waters, facing obstacles like the terrifying Scylla and whirring Charybdis, the beautiful enchantress Circe, and the land of the raging Cyclopes. Using narrative threads from The Iliad and The Odyssey, Padraic Colum weaves a stunning adventure with all the drama and power that Homer intended. Recommended for ages 10 and up.

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Little Pilgrim's Progress

To most children the record of Christian's pilgrimage is attractive simply as a story of adventure. But now Helen L. Taylor has simplified the vocabulary and concepts for younger readers, while keeping the story line intact. The result is a classic for youth, a delightful book with a message they can understand. Recommended for ages 8 to 12.

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John Bunyan: The Tinker of Bedford

Do your 8- to 12-year-olds know who John Bunyan was? (He wasn't the lumberjack with the giant blue ox---that was Paul!) John Bunyan was a hero, too---a real-life hero. Your whole family will be fascinated by the story of how he was imprisoned for preaching the gospel and used his time in jail to write Pilgrim's Progress for his dying daughter. 151 pages, softcover from Christian Liberty Press.

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Books Children Love: A Guide to the Best Children's Literature

Goodnight, Moon; Frog and Toad; Charlotte's Web; The Hobbit . . . so many classics, so little time! This newly updated, topically arranged guide helps you choose the very best fiction and nonfiction titles by offering thumbnail sketches of hundreds of classic and recent books for kids---from preschool to high school. Foreword by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay. 320 pages, softcover from Crossway Books.

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The Book Tree: A Christian Reference for Children's Literature

Want to foster a lifelong love of reading in your children? Here's a wonderful place to start! McCallum and Scott offer a feast of enticing book "blurbs" highlighting top-quality fiction and biography classics that'll send your family running, not walking, straight to the nearest library! Titles are categorized by grade level, from preschool to high school. Includes a subject index. 222 pages, softcover from Canon.

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Movies as Literature

Good storytelling teaches---whether heard, read, or seen. Through cinema, your students can learn to critique narrative content and form, identify underlying messages, and analyze from a moral standpoint. The Stouts' guide includes plot summaries, discussion and composition questions, extended-study activities, and teacher's guide for 17 movies (chosen for literary merit and effective filmmaking). Use as a one-year high school course or supplement to grades 7 to 12 English. 335 pages, softcover from Design-A-Study.

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Movies As Literature Student Workbook

Movies As Literature Student Workbook includes all instructions to the student, all questions (with room for notes or answers), the glossary, and bits of movie trivia for added interest.

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