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Page loading...Enjoy the convenience of a Core curriculum package. Sonlight Curriculum offers a choice of 18 "Core" packages which integrate History, student Readers and Read-Aloud books for you and your children to enjoy together—along with Bible in Grades 6-12 (optional in K-5). You'll also get an Instructor's Guide to help you teach with confidence. Add in subjects of your choice to your Core for a complete school year made simple.
The Core program is the essential foundation for your children's education where they begin to develop a love to learn. Sonlight® uses real books as the foundation for your family's study. Fascinating titles, not dry textbooks, draw your whole family into the subject.
Sonlight uses the subject of History as the "spine" to which the other subjects connect. This history focus provides a framework for your family to better understand literature, scientific theory, philosophy, and a wide-range of other subjects and helps you see all the connections.
History is the centerpiece of Sonlight Curriculum.
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Our history programs give students an overview of key events and people of the past, as well as biographies of people who have made significant contributions to the development of human cultures and the advancement of God's Kingdom.
Sonlight Cores span the wealth of history from ancient to modern, Sonlight students cover more world history and learn more about other cultures than any other homeschool curriculum (ten years worth of world history options and five of American).
Engaging, "living" books—full of real heroes and memorable stories—intertwine with your history spine to make the people, events and ideas of history come alive for your family.
Readers are quality books your children read on their own.
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Sonlight offers books in each Core with a range of difficulty levels. This way, students don't get burnt out, but also occasionally tackle books that require them to stretch. The common denominator? The chosen books are excellent titles students will actually take pleasure in reading.
Before Core 3, students focus primarily on developing reading skills. Starting at Core 3, Sonlight includes Readers that coincide with and enhance the books and subject matter in each level's History program.
Sonlight Curriculum maximizes the benefits of reading aloud together as a family.
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Reading aloud together as a family sparks discussion about the ideas you encounter. Sonlight provides notes with discussion questions and interesting historical tidbits that tie into the time period you’re studying.
Because you read these books with your children, you're right there to explain or talk through important questions…with Sonlight's notes to guide you where you need help. You're sure to make memories as the great stories you read together spill into family discussions.
Before Core 3, students focus primarily on developing reading and listening skills. Starting at Core 3, Sonlight includes Read-Alouds that also coincide with and enhance the books and subject matter in each level's History program.
Your children learn the art of presentation and memorization.
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As your children encounter poetry and Bible memorization, narrate stories, and share orally about what they’re learning, they'll have the opportunity to learn at an early age how to communicate effectively and captivate an "audience."
Sonlight includes daily Bible readings and weekly Scripture memory assignments.
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Bible readings and weekly Scripture memory assignments are included in every Core Instructor's Guide, along with the Biblically-based comments you'll find throughout every Sonlight Core. If your family follows the Sonlight plan, you will cover almost the entire Bible once every five or six years.
In addition to Bible reading, we also assign a variety of books from apologetics to Bible study methods to spiritual classics. Our goal is to encourage students to grow in their faith and equip them to follow Christ in whatever He calls them to do.
You find everything you need to use Sonlight's books and materials within your Instructor's Guide, so you can open it up and teach confidently with minimal prep time.
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Sonlight's main resource, after all the incredible books, is the Instructor's Guide, or IG, as moms like to call it.
The Sonlight team strategically interweaves your collection of History, Readers and Read-Alouds into your IG. Your Instructor's Guide helps you decide how much is "enough but not too much" each day, and breaks those learning elements down into a daily schedule for you.
Thought-provoking notes in your IG spark discussion with your children and balance any biased statements you may find in the literature. Vocabulary words, extra historical tidbits, and map and timeline activities help solidify what your family is learning.
Sonlight offers Science and Language Arts programs you can add to your Core, as well as our collection of what we deem the best math, handwriting, and electives on the homeschool market. Explore additional subjects now, if you like, or browse the Core programs.
As you browse the many Core programs available for you and your student(s), you might wonder why a particular Core spans several age groups or grade levels. Why doesn't Sonlight just offer one Core per level or age and be done with it? Wouldn't that make things easier for everyone?