Literature

Discover resources for teaching literature at home.

Homeschool Literature Curriculum

7Sisters Innovative Homeschool Helps

Each 7Sisters Literature Study Guide includes meaningful activities for teens who want to level up their work to Honors.

AmblesideOnline

AmblesideOnline is a free homeschool curriculum that uses Charlotte Mason’s classically-based principles to prepare children for a life of rich relationships with everything around them: God, humanity, and the natural world.

AmericanLiterature.com

Specifically for educators, this site offers free comprehensive teaching guides, lesson packs, and study guides designed to bring literature to life in the classroom.

An Old-Fashioned Education

Click on a category to go to that page.Each page has a list of links to books and/or websites in that subject.

August House & Story Cove Books

Lesson plans were carefully designed and field-tested to provide active exercises that engage children in learning.

Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature

Free online library created by the University of Florida, offers over 6,000 children’s books.

Bibliomania

Bibliomania has thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays all of which are absolutely free

Bookroo

Bookroo offers monthly books for kids ages 0-12.We help families raise readers.

Bryan Davis

Bryan Davis, a convention favorite, offers wholesome and faith-filled books for ages 6 to adult.

C.S. Lewis Foundation

This is your resource for a set of study guides for the works of C.S. Lewis.

Canon Press

All the books at Canon Press equip you to say “Thy Kingdom come” and to live like that is actually happening.

Children’s Literature Web Guide

The Children’s Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of internet resources related to books for children and young adults.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library

The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a digital library of hundreds of classic Christian books selected for edification and education.

Christian Novel Studies

Literature study guides.

Classical Academic Press

We named them “Walking to Wisdom” because acquiring wisdom happens at the pace of a walk and with a mentor. We have sought to guide students through these marvelous books as well as in the skill of reading these particular texts.

Classical Reader: Comprehensive Reading Guide for K-12 Students

The Classical Reading Guide will help you choose the best books for K-12 reading by level, genre, and more.

Confessions of a Homeschooler

Looking for fun hands-on literature unit studies for your elementary-level students? Look no further!

Everyday Education

Janice Campbell’s Everyday Education bookshop for homeschool, private schools, co-ops, and people who love to read.

For the Love of Literature

Features include: grade level recommendations, top five picks per subject, extensive resource lists and more!

Gateway to the Classics

We are delighted to welcome you to Gateway to the Classics where you can find one of the best online collections of classic literature for children and the young at heart.

Great Christian Classics

This high-school literature course covers five of the greatest life narratives of all time.

Heritage Mom

Heritage Mom book recommendations index.

Honey for a Child’s Heart

Wholesome literature is important for building good character—and this newly updated guide will help you choose the best of the classics for preschoolers through teens.

Honey for a Teen’s Heart

The book discusses the value of reading as an individual as well as together as a family.

Hero Biographies – YWAM Publishing

Hero biographies to educate and inspire!

I Can Read

Activities to go along with your I Can REad book series.

Illuminating Literature: Characters in Crisis

Teens feel at home with the welcoming tone of this course as they read fun facts, compelling background information, and author bios that draw them into the novels and stories.

International Association of School Librarianship

International Association of School Librarianship offers online resources for children’s literature.

Journeying Through the Classics

A complete Charlotte Mason high school literature curriculum designed for real families who want rigorous academics without the rigidity.

Memoria Press

Guides may be purchased individually or as grade level sets. Novels are also available.

Movies As Literature

This course will not only give students the tools to appreciate good books more fully, but will also equip them with the ability to discern underlying messages in movies rather than simply absorb them.

New Classics Study Guides

New Classics Study Guides offers looking for Outstanding Christian Literature for Your Homeschool?

Novel Units

One of the largest selections of instructional teacher guides spanning from classic to contemporary titles. There are more than 800 titles and products focus on an array of skill integration and high-level immersion in the literature.

One More Story

One More Story fosters the love of literature at an early age with its Interactive Online library.

Prestwick House

All literary teaching guides are available in print, as well as downloadable PDF files.

Project Gutenberg

You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.

Rambling Ruminations

Rambling Ruminations offers writing truth that reads like fiction: historical narratives, children’s books, and blogs.

Reading to Kids

Reading to Kids is a grassroots organization dedicated to inspiring underserved children with a love of reading.

ReadingVine

ReadingVine offers free Teacher-Trusted ELA Worksheets for K-8.

Rise to Reading

Each book has been read and supported with comprehension material for easy use and reference throughout the reading process.

Ruby Reads

Book Boxes are designed for you and your child to do together. You’ll read the picture book, then provide support as they do a set of activities inspired by the book.

Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online offers Shakespeare online, a teaching aid used in classrooms all over the world with approximately 1.3 million unique users per month.

ShaneScribe

Shane Eash is a historical fiction and children’s book author from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, whose work has earned praise from bestselling authors and historians alike.