Maybe you're new to homeschooling. Or, maybe you've tried it, but you're still looking for "the right curriculum."
You'll be surprised and delighted by the incredible support you get in each Sonlight Instructor's Guide for Core, Language Arts, and Science courses (K-Junior High).
Imagine being a great teacher—with almost no effort!
Imagine not having to create your own schedules. Not having to design effective activities and lessons for your students. Not having to think of questions to test their comprehension.
Instead, imagine having a personal guide create them all for you, and leave you countless written notes to help you teach more effectively. A guide to tell you exactly what to do at what times during the year.
Imagine falling asleep tonight relaxed, with no worry about what you're going to teach in the morning. And finally, imagine waking up refreshed, eager to join your children in another school day!
You can experience all this from "Day One," with any Sonlight Instructor's Guide.
Spend your time teaching your kids... not planning their education.
Every Sonlight Instructor's Guide provides you with:
- A complete, 36-week, 180-day schedule with everything you need, including:
- Activities, experiments, teaching tips, comprehension questions, counter-balancing commentary and more
- Two schedule options to fit your needs. The 5-day schedule provides your family a robust, compelling, full academic calendar. The 4-day schedule gives you time each week to enjoy a full day of extra-curricular activities like piano and dance lessons, field trips, or homeschool support group.
Create great school days with your Sonlight Core Instructor's Guide
You'll know what to do each day of the week. Complete lesson plans included. Plus...
- You'll be amazed at how much you cover and learn in manageable daily portions.
- Your children will remember, understand and enjoy history. From Core 3 on, all Readers, Read-Alouds, and History are tightly "interlinked."
- Confidently help your students understand tough material. Teaching notes and tips help you clarify points, provide counter-arguments, or answer any sticky questions your children might ask.
A Sonlight Core Instrucor's Guide includes:
1) Your Reader Guide (Readers are included in Core 3 and up)
- Know how well your children understand the books they read on their own. It includes comprehension questions you can ask—no need to read every book (unless you want to).
- Link the books to reality with map locations and time line dates. Students learn to relate their own experience with the "where" and "when" in every book they read.
2) Read-Aloud Guide
- Vocabulary words drawn from the books you read. Your children hear the words in context. We draw attention to them, and give you definitions. You'll be amazed at how articulate your children become!
- Cultural literacy notes. Wherever a reading mentions something of interest (for example: hoopskirt, CCC, chamois, or potpie), we add helpful information about the topic. Readings gain depth; you and your children become "educated" naturally, and the world opens up to you all.
- Plenty of thorough comprehension questions designed to help maximize your children's understanding.
- Creative narration ideas. As students re-tell parts of a story, they strengthen verbal communication skills.
3) History Guide
- Easily compare what your children retain with key learning objectives.
- Develop your children's geography skills with maps showing locations from your book readings.
- Remind your children of key facts, and gain perspective using time line dates tied to your reading.
- Learn (together) to read discerningly, with notes to help you counter biased articles.
To help you teach multiple students with one Sonlight Core program, we have created separate Instructor's Guides for Science and Language Arts. Choose a Science program that will interest all your children, and match a Language Arts Guide to each set of Readers you purchase...
A Sonlight Science Instructor's Guide includes:
- A complete, ready-to-use plan, with a full schedule of all science books and experiments for the entire year. No need to create your own plans!
- A comprehensive list of materials you'll need for each experiment. You're forewarned well in advance of any special needs; you have plenty of time to acquire all the resources for every experiment.
- Detailed teaching notes to help you guide students through each lesson.
- Engaging activity sheets with hundreds of illustrations, charts, and pictures. Helps students remember more of what they've learned.
- Complete time-saving Parent Answer Key for the entire course. You won't be stumped by any awkward questions.
Our Language Arts Instructor's Guides feature:
- Manageable, relevant assignments. One weekly dictation often taken from the books your children are assigned to read.
- Daily, sequenced assignments to teach your children to communicate effectively in writing.
- Freedom for four-day users, and challenge for five-day students, with optional Friday activities.
- Complete guided schedules for handwriting, spelling, and optional workbooks.
- Built-in phonics training in Grades K to 2.
Bottom line: Each Sonlight Instructor's Guide saves you hundreds of hours of time—literally—plus loads of stress and frustration. You'll teach your children like a "pro," and you'll have time to enjoy the journey along with them.
