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Through BookShark’s Reading with History program, students learn from multiple perspectives and engage in thought-provoking discussion. Choose BookShark, and your children will have an engaging and complete education through a variety of academic resources including fiction, nonfiction, biographies, and illustrated books.
What's Missing from the BookShark History Curriculum?
Well, you won’t find any dry textbooks or meaningless memorization. Instead each package includes 35 to 50 real books that your students will either read or have read aloud to them throughout the year.
Each History Instructor’s Guide includes discussion questions, vocabulary, mapping topics, and timeline suggestions to help you and your child interact with the reading and make lasting connections among the people, places, and events you study.
Each Reading with History program includes:
- A History Instructor’s Guide
- Read-Alouds
- Readers
- Required Resources, all fully outlined in your Instructor’s Guide
Our history programs are open-and-go! There is no need for advance preparation, research, or even lesson planning. Simply work down the day’s column, reading the assigned pages or chapters with your children, discussing what you read, and doing any map or timeline work.
For a comprehensive list of books included in each package, simply click on the "What's Included" tab of any linked history program.
Browse our History Programs
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U.S. History & Literature | High SchoolRetail $720.60 Special Price $612.51
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World History & Literature | High SchoolRetail $851.15 Special Price $723.48
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History of Science & Literature JRetail $652.56 Special Price $554.67
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American History & Literature I PackageRetail $768.68 Special Price $653.38
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Structured curriculum for flexible families. LIKE YOU!
✔ Literature-based
✔ Fully Planned
✔ Days a Week
✔ Faith-neutral
Easy to Use, Comprehensive, and So Much More
- Complete, ready-to-use lesson plans. All your books are fully scheduled for the entire year. No need to create your own plans! See Samples Here.
- Daily schedules. 36 weeks of material for history/geography, read-alouds, and readers are all outlined for you!
- Discussion questions. Discussion questions (with answers) help you track your children's comprehension.
- Timeline and map activities. Put your learning in chronological and geographical context!
- Vocabulary and cultural literacy notes. Find clear definitions for important vocabulary that appears in your reading. Does your child know what a hoop skirt is? They will with BookShark History!
- Extensive notes. Our notes provide counter-balancing arguments to lopsided readings. These notes help you "listen to the other side" in order to hone understanding.
- Teaching tips. Get help discussing tricky topics (such as poverty) with your kids. We've got you covered, so you can teach with confidence and without surprises.
- An easy record-keeping system. All your records are in one place for reporting requirements! We also have an online option available for record keeping, automatic-grading, and assessments. Learn more here.
BookShark Gives You the Gift of Flexibility!
- We schedule 4-day weeks, designed to save one day a week for co-ops, music lessons, sports or other extracurricular activities.
- You are in the driver’s seat. The IG is a guide, not a taskmaster. As you become comfortable teaching your children, you can skip or alter assignments to fit your family’s unique needs.
- You have options to work how you want. If you prefer to do a week’s worth of a single subject in one day, work horizontally across your schedule page. If you prefer doing a little bit from every subject each day, work vertically.
- The day-by-day schedule frees you from a traditional Monday through Friday school calendar. Take breaks when you want and pick up right where you left off.
Geography And Mapping Are Part Of Reading With History
With BookShark, geography isn’t an extra subject tacked onto everything else; it’s learned naturally in the context of your History studies. Quick mapping assignments in your Instructor’s Guide help you incorporate geography seamlessly into your school day.
Students plot on their Markable Map the countries, cities, landforms, and regions mentioned in the History books, Readers, and Read-Alouds. This painless method of learning geography is so easy! And it really works!
Parent notes provide place names and coordinates so you can easily find and check each map point. Plus parents have full color, hole-punched, laminated maps that fold into the IG binder for easy reference.
Note: We recommend purchasing an extra set of Activity Sheets if you plan to teach this course again with another student or if you are teaching more than one student. We do not sell older versions of Activity Sheets once new editions are released.
Starting in Level D, we bring the history content to life by integrating History, Geography, Read-Alouds, and Readers, all of which also coordinate with the same level Language Arts program (purchased separately or included in an All-Subject Package).
Levels, Not Grades
BookShark History programs span a range of ages so you can combine multiple children in a single program, stretching your homeschool budget while shortening your homeschool day.
Intro to the World: Cultures (Level A) | Ages 5-7
Intro to World History, Year 1 of 2 (Level B) | Ages 6-8
Intro to World History, Year 2 of 2 (Level C) | Ages 7-9
Intro to American History, Year 1 of 2 (Level D) | Ages 8-11
Intro to American History, Year 2 of 2 (Level E) | Ages 9-12
Eastern Hemisphere (Level F) | Ages 10-13
World History, Year 1 of 2 (Level G) | Ages 11-13
World History, Year 2 of 2 (Level H) | Ages 12-14
American History and Literature (Level I) | Ages 13-15
History of Science and Classical Literature (Level J) | Ages 14-18
Need Help Choosing?
Connect with us however is best for YOUR schedule:
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Schedule a one-on-one call with our experienced advisors
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