LITERATURE BASED CURRICULUM | Popular Homeschool Curriculum Picks for a Literature Based Approach

Great round up of solid literature-based curriculum options!

Thank you!

I love beautiful feet books, learning language arts through literature... have been using for over a decade!

Am I the only one who buys the manual and then buy second hand the literature?! 😂

I will have kiddos ages 9 to 13 next year and am looking at sonlight or bookshark for the first time. Which level did you use with kiddos that age range? Thanks!!

This was very helpful and informative. Thank you!

Really appreciate this video

We’ve thought of doing sonlight science but not taught of doing an hbl or full package!!! It depends on if we can do hands on, if we can do hands on we do!!! We like a gentle language arts!!! We do our own book based science at the moment and we are loving it I’m also enjoying making it our own.

I have an 8 1/2 year old boy who is still learning/struggling to read and really isn't THAT interested... just more frustrated (kinda like me - oh dear- because it's my fault) and a girl who will be 7 at the end of September. (I also have a newly 4, a 2 yr old and a newborn). I feel like I'd like a curriculum focused around reading stories, because it's the seat work for them and I that makes us frustrated. But I'm also worried about THE TIME and getting behind, because I have a lot of distractions.
I'm thinking Logic of English for reading/LA, Math-U-See and maybe Sonlight or My Father's World or Simply Charlotte Mason... I want history/geography and literature to come alive and be enjoyable. Oh and science too!
Any recommendations for my situation, especially considering the readers may be above my child's level, but having the content be at his age?
We did an all in one curriculum this year for 1st and 2nd grade which we didn't finish and felt overwhelming to me. It was Seton homeschool.

This was so helpful thank you for sharing this. I’m already thinking of what I want to do for next year which will only be year 2 for us. I really like the literature based programs. Do you happen to know if they ever do any sales on their curriculums?

Can the regular and advanced readers be purchased together with HBL D? I would be combining my boys and using slightly different readers would work out better, since one child is two years younger. Also, are the regular and advanced readers on the same topic as each other and also with the subjects in the history element on the HBL?

Well I could cry happy tears. I’ve been so intimidated by literature based curriculum while simultaneously wanting to incorporate more living books vs textbooks into our homeschool. This was SO informative and clear. Thank you so much!

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Do you use any of these curriculum? Do you have a favorite? Or, which of these are you interested in trying?