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Homeschool Writing Curriculum with Evan-Moor

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Choosing your homeschool writing curriculum can seem daunting, but plenty of homeschoolers have found it easy with Evan-Moor’s writing resources! Check out what veteran homeschoolers had to say about some of Evan-Moor’s Homeschool Writing resources.

Daily Writing Lessons

Use Daily 6-Trait Writing for 125 quick, easy, and straightforward lessons to teach your child how to improve her writing skills.

The teacher’s edition guides homeschoolers through the teaching process, provides main teaching points for each concept, and offers detailed scoring rubrics for assessment.

Check out Project Happy Home’s review of Daily 6-Trait Writing Grade 1 here.

Daily Paragraph Editing provides targeted practice in grammar, punctuation, spelling and grade level language skills in short, daily activities. These skills lay a foundation for self-editing that will prove useful for students throughout their academic careers.

Find Purposeful Homeschool’s review of Daily Paragraph Editing Grade 2 here.

Creative Writing

Write a Super Sentence
Does your child need support writing more interesting sentences? Write a Super Sentence guides you and your child through the writing process and provides fun and easy practice without overwhelming children.

Click here to check out Caffeine & Lesson Plans’ full review of Write a Super Sentence and YouTube Channel.

How to Write a Story

Is your child ready to write stories? How to Write a Story teaches children about different story patterns that they’ve likely seen in their favorite stories and provides activities to practice writing their own short sentences to match those patterns. The writing prompts encourage creativity and ease children into creative writing.

Check out Project Happy Home for more reviews and YouTube videos

Homeschool Writing Curriculum Bundle

Did you know that you can get Evan-Moor’s writing curriculum bundle for grades 1–6? Each grade level has a unique selection of Evan-Moor books that are developmentally appropriate for the writing skills of that grade level.

Simply a Steward reviews Homeschool Writing Curriculum Bundle Grade 6 here. Inside the grade 6 Homeschool Writing Curriculum Bundle, there are three writing books.

Giant Write Every Day
This book provides a full year (12 months) of writing practice and activities for different types of writing. With creative prompts for every season, holiday, or event in the year, this resource is exciting for homeschooled children.

 

Daily 6-Trait Writing
In just 25 weekly units, your child will have focused, daily practice with an end-of-the-week prompt. Both the teachers’ edition and student edition are included in Evan-Moors’ writing bundle. The student version of Daily 6-Trait Writing provides student pages for each day’s activity, while the teachers’ edition offers a brief lesson for the teacher to teach the child before the activity, as well as, an answer key.

 

Text-Based Writing
The engaging stories that preface each writing activity will motivate children to complete activities, even if they struggle or dislike writing. Each unit provides a text in different areas to engage different interests for children.

 

There are plenty of resources that can help you and your child have confidence choosing your homeschool writing curriculum! You can trust Evan-Moor’s resources to help you and your child have an enjoyable writing experience.


Christine Wooler has experience working with children as a youth soccer coach and summer camp counselor. She is currently studying English Literature and journalism in college. She enjoys exploring educational topics that help students have fun while learning.

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