Language Arts

Grades K-1

The Kindergarten Package and the First Grade Package cover all needed language arts.

Grades 2-8

Many language arts skills are integrated into the history, science, and Bible activities in our curriculum:

  • Narration, copywork, dictation, and memorization
  • Informal handwriting practice
  • Read-aloud literature
  • Vocabulary
  • Book Basket™ — extensive library lists for read-alouds and readers
  • Letter writing
  • Composition in science and history

Add grade-specific resources to assure a well-rounded, complete language arts program. We recommend:

2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
High School

Our high school curriculum covers all needed language arts including writing instruction and assignments (composition), grammar, literature analysis, and reading lists.

NOTE: An incoming student weak in formal grammar should complete Easy Grammar Ultimate Series: Grade 8. Likewise, a student weak in composition skills should complete Writing with Skill Level 1 (at least half of the book).

Progeny Press

For 7th and 8th Graders

As part of a complete language arts program, My Father's World recommends literature guides developed by Progeny Press. Select two per year, based on the student's reading level and interests. The following titles are listed by the curriculum they most closely match. However, any of these books may be used with any of the programs.

Exploring Countries and Cultures

Creation to the Greeks

  • The Golden Goblet (Book | Study Guide)
  • Select a second book from any of the other listed books.

Rome to the Reformation

Exploration to 1850

1850 to Modern Times

  • No specific recommendation — select any two from the books listed above.

If these titles do not meet your needs, information about other literature guides is available on the Progeny Press website.

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A Charlotte Mason and classical approach with short, easy-to-teach lessons.

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Give your child individualized spelling instruction in just 15 minutes a day. This book includes helpful information for the parent, as well as extensive spelling lists for students. Spelling Power includes access to the Teacher's Online Resource Site with step-by-step instructions, helping to make this an easy and effective spelling program. You only need one book per family.

For Grades 3-6.

Beginning in Grade 4, we also recommend Spelling Power Activity Task Cards (available separately).

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365 cards with a variety of hands-on games and activities, used for the Spelling Power daily "activity time."

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Zaner-Bloser Handwriting Grade 3 Student Edition will help you grow in your writing skills. Begin by reviewing manuscript writing and learning cursive letters. Combine those letters into words and sentences with this color cursive writing workbook. Includes simple, complete instructions.

Zaner-Bloser Handwriting Grade 3 Student Edition is recommended for students who are ready to begin cursive, usually in third grade.

Complete 1-2 pages a day, 4 days a week. Sit with your child and teach/observe so that correct habits are formed.

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A superb dictionary for children in grades 3–6 (ages 8–12), with age-appropriate vocabulary, easy-to-understand definitions, lively example sentences, and delightful color images.

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Writing Skills for Today helps students develop a strong foundation in composition.

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Answer key for the Language Lessons for Today series covering grades 3 through 6. No answer key is required for grade 2.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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These lessons (30-45 minutes per day) provide a strong foundation in composition needed for high school. The Writing with Skill Instructor Text acts as a writing coach, leading you step by step through each lesson in the student workbook, explaining specific ways to assist students (parent involvement about 15 minutes per day). Complete two lessons per week, using the first half of the book in 7th grade and the second half in 8th grade. Includes Student Workbook and Instructor Text.

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To be used with the Writing With Skill/ Level One: Instructor Text.

Included with the Writing with Skill Level 1 Set.

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A thesaurus is needed for some of the lessons in Writing with Skill and is helpful for high school compositions. We recommend Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus because of its thorough, scholarly content and ease of use.

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Wanda C. Phillips

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In just 10 minutes per day, students review grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and composition skills. Excellent preparation for our high school English program.

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Elizabeth George Speare

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Kit has grown up on the island of Barbados, loved and pampered by her grandfather. But after his death, Kit must leave. It's not proper for a sixteen-year-old girl to live by herself. She's heard stories about her aunt and uncle who live in the colony of Connecticut. These are the only relatives Kit knows of. So, alone and desperate, she sets sail to live with them in New England.

When she arrives, Kit is shocked by the gray, damp landscape, but even more stunned by the Puritanical lifestyle of her uncle's household. Fitting in is not easy - until she meets Hannah Tupper, an older woman who lives alone and is the only person who lets Kit be herself.

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Rebecca Gilleland

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Esther Forbes

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Johnny Tremain, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in the danger and excitement of Boston in the 1770s, just before the Revolutionary War. Johnny can't help being swept along by the powerful currents that will lead to the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Lexington. But even more gripping than living through the drama of Revolutionary Boston is the important discovery Johnny makes about his own life.

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Gregory Power

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This study guide requires the version of The Swiss Family Robinson book we carry.

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L.M. Montgomery

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When Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew send for an orphan boy to help Matthew on the farm, Anne Shirley, a skinny, red-headed girl who never stops talking, arrives instead.

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As Anne grows, Marilla finds her a "genius for getting into trouble." Yet, as Anne says, "have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice." Despite her many predicaments, life at Green Gables is happy.

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Alisa Thomas

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Carole Pelttari

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Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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Ranofer dreams of following in his father's footsteps as a goldsmith, but when he is suddenly orphaned, he struggles under the abusive control of a half-brother. When he discovers tomb robbers, Ranofer is swept into danger, mystery, and intrigue, but he never loses sight of his dreams. This exciting coming-of-age tale brings Ancient Egypt to life.

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Carol Clark

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Rosemary Sutcliff

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In the early second-century A.D., Marcus, along with his best friend and former slave, Esca, begins a quest deep into the northern wilds of Britain and Scotland. Determined to recover the lost eagle standard of his father's Ninth Roman Legion and redeem his family's honor, Marcus also seeks to discover his father's fate and that of the men who mysteriously disappeared under his command. Along the journey, Marcus will discover the true meaning of freedom, friendship, and honor.

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Rebecca Gilleland

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