{"id":64260,"date":"2023-03-23T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/?p=64260"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:57:14","slug":"literature-guides-as-language-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/literature-guides-as-language-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Literature Guides as a Full Language Arts Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/literature-guides-as-language-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-64265\" src=\"https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/girl-g31c1dd652_1920-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"How to Use Literature Guides as a Full Language Arts Curriculum\" width=\"675\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/girl-g31c1dd652_1920-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/girl-g31c1dd652_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/girl-g31c1dd652_1920-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/girl-g31c1dd652_1920-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/girl-g31c1dd652_1920-1248x832.jpg 1248w, https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/girl-g31c1dd652_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>How to Use Literature Guides as a Complete Language Arts Curriculum ~<br \/>\nWritten by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.karipatterson.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kari Patterson<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a mama with very different kids, <a href=\"https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/homeschool-a-child-with-aspergers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including one on the spectrum<\/a>, we have tried a little bit of everything, curriculum-wise. Over the last 11 years we&#8217;ve done Saxon, Singapore, Life of Fred, Bob Jones, and HSLDA math. (Whew!) Each was helpful for the particular child and stage he or she was in at the time.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also dabbled in various history and science curriculums, but there has been one fairly common thread through the whole course of our homeschool journey:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching language arts through literature guides<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a certain curriculum (I use several) so much as an <em>approach.<\/em> If this interests you, follow along: I&#8217;d love to share how this has worked for us.<\/p>\n<h2>How to Use Literature Guides as a Complete Language Arts Curriculum<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Why Literature Guides?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Humans love stories.<\/strong> Doesn&#8217;t <em>everyone<\/em> love stories? Who doesn&#8217;t love getting swept up in a truly captivating tale, who isn&#8217;t moved or challenged or inspired by the heroism and humanity we meet, whether on the page or the screen?<\/p>\n<p>My mom always espoused the\u00a0<em>Delight Directed\u00a0<\/em>philosophy of learning.<strong> She believed that if we can discover what\u00a0<em>delights<\/em> our children, we&#8217;ll find the key to helping them learn.<\/strong> As far as I can tell, everyone delights in a well-told story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time together<\/strong>. While our kids do a lot of reading on their own, we&#8217;ve always done our literature guides <em>together<\/em>. In the youngest years, I read the books aloud, snuggled on the couch, and we did all the writing work together.<\/p>\n<p>Now at 16 and 14 years old, they do all that work on their own, but we read the books at the same time and discuss as we go.<\/p>\n<p>I have found that reading literature together has allowed my kids and I to enter into fascinating worlds <em>together<\/em>. <strong>While the rest of life is going on, we are\u00a0<em>also<\/em> elsewhere.<\/strong> We are in Narnia or Avonlea, Pemberley or the Shire.<\/p>\n<p>Just the other day I walked in to Dutch&#8217;s room and he was laughing to himself: &#8220;Marie St. Clare is the WORST!&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LKDMAr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I knew exactly where he was.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I love sharing a literary world with my kids.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-64266\" src=\"https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/karishcp-1024x758.jpg\" alt=\"How to Use Literature Guides as a Full Language Arts Curriculum\" width=\"608\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/karishcp-1024x758.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/karishcp-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/karishcp-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/karishcp-1536x1136.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/karishcp-2048x1515.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>How?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Of course there are any number of ways to do this, but I&#8217;ll share what it&#8217;s looked like for us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting Started: <\/strong>I&#8217;ve primarily used\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/totallanguageplus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Total Language Plus<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stores.progenypress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Progeny Press<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>study guides.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Side note: I now teach middle\/high school literature at a homeschool co-op and the\u00a0Progeny guides are nice because the pages are reproducible for use within one classroom. You can also buy them as e-guides and just print off what pages you need.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pace: As a general rule, you can usually cover 3-4 literature guides a year, depending upon the book<\/strong>. (We&#8217;ve done 4 each year.) My favorite way to plan is simply peruse grade-level book lists from sources I trust, and see which ones coincide with literature guides.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I start with ones I&#8217;ve read and love, and for those I&#8217;m not familiar with, I check them out from the library to read over the summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pick and choose: <\/strong>I don&#8217;t use every activity in each guide. I&#8217;m not a fan of word-scrambles or crossword puzzles for vocabulary study, though some of you might love those! <strong>I prefer students write creative sentences or paragraphs using vocabulary words.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion:\u00a0<\/strong>In my opinion, the <em>discussion<\/em> is the most valuable part. <strong>We go through every chapter together, discussing what struck us, what confused us, what we loved or didn&#8217;t love.<\/strong> We discuss the analysis questions, we discuss implications and underlying assumptions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This also helps students&#8217; comprehension, if the book is particularly challenging. <strong>Many weeks I&#8217;ll have students confess they were very confused by the narrative or dialogue, <\/strong><strong>but after a thorough discussion they understood more clearly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grammar\/Writing:\u00a0<\/strong>Just this year I began incorporating the <a href=\"https:\/\/iew.com\/sss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IEW Structure &amp; Style<\/strong><\/a> concepts into our literature studies. I wish I&#8217;d started years ago! We&#8217;ve always done the grammar and writing activities included in the literature guides, but this year I took Andrew Pudewa&#8217;s teaching practicum and purchased the teacher and student notebooks and incorporated the concepts and assignments each week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This has been a fabulous combination!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lastly, I can&#8217;t help but share some of our very favorite literature studies over the years:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Whipping Boy, Charlotte&#8217;s Web, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, My Side of the Mountain, The Wheel on the School, The Hiding Place, Anne of Green Gables, The Giver, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin, and Pride &amp; Prejudice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Whether you have or have not used literature guides for language arts, I hope this encourages you to try something new!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/literature-guides-as-language-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-64267\" src=\"https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/4-habits-that-help-our-homeschool-in-busy-seasons-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"How to Use Literature Guides as a Full Language Arts Curriculum\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/4-habits-that-help-our-homeschool-in-busy-seasons-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/4-habits-that-help-our-homeschool-in-busy-seasons-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/4-habits-that-help-our-homeschool-in-busy-seasons-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/4-habits-that-help-our-homeschool-in-busy-seasons-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simplehomeschool.net\/quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Are you a GOOD or BAD homeschool mom? 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