Choosing and planning curriculum for Homeschool
Choosing and planning curriculum for Homeschool: 52 free pages to print, play or teach from. No sign-in.
- Top 10 free math websites for kids (2026)List
Khan Academy is the best free math website for kids: it has math courses from kindergarten up, described as free, with teacher tools. Ranked, with price, a limit and how we chose.
Checked 2026-10-27
- Top 8 school year and unit planning tools for teachers (2026)List
For planning a whole year or a unit, rather than a single lesson, Common Planner is the easiest place to start: its teacher plan is advertised as free and it handles units, pacing and sharing.
Checked 2026-10-27
- Top 8 homeschool math curricula (2026)List
Math-U-See is our number one pick for a family that wants one mastery-based path from kindergarten through calculus, with videos and manipulatives. Ranked, with price, a limit and how we chose.
Checked 2026-10-27
- Top 8 secular homeschool curricula (2026)List
Time4Learning is our number one pick for most families: its own pages call it a complete, secular online homeschool curriculum, it covers preschool through 12th grade, and the monthly price is listed.
Checked 2026-10-27
- Top 9 free homeschool curricula (2026)List
Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool is our number one pick: a free online curriculum for preschool through 8th grade that spans the main subjects and tracks each child's day, though it is Christian.
Checked 2026-10-27
- Unit planning pagePrintable
A free printable unit planning page: the unit and grade, a big question, goals and vocabulary, a weekly table for focus, activities and checks, a final assessment and materials. Print and write.
- Back-to-school night slidesMaker
Free back-to-school night slides you edit in the browser, present on the projector and print as a handout.
- A free preschool curriculum: the year in 40 weeksPrintable
40 theme weeks from August to June, each with the skills it works on, box-free materials and open-ended ways in. Print a month at a time or the year.
- Project-based learning: what it is, how to plan a unit, and what the research saysGuide
Project-based learning for teachers: the evidence rating (two recent school trials positive, one null), what made the successful units work, how to plan one by grade, examples, mistakes and tools.
- How to teach phonics step by stepGuide
A step-by-step way to teach phonics: what the evidence supports, a typical sequence of patterns, a 30-minute daily lesson with scripts, blending, spelling, decodable text, tricky words and checking progress.
- Infant and toddler lesson plans by monthPrintable
A week of play for every month, for infants and for toddlers: a sensory or play idea, a song, a book and outside time each day, on one page to print. Free.
- Planning a school yearGuide
How to plan a school year: the district calendar, counting real teaching days, mapping units, pacing with buffer weeks, assessments before grading deadlines, and monthly check-ins.
- Australian CurriculumGuide
The Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 in plain words: Foundation to Year 10, eight learning areas, NAPLAN, Year 1 phonics checks, and how NSW's syllabuses and Victoria's curriculum fit.
Checked 2026-11-06
- Canada's provincial curriculaGuide
How Canada's provinces set their own curricula: Ontario's 2023 Language curriculum and EQAO, British Columbia's know–do–understand model, Alberta's new K–6, and how to follow one at home.
Checked 2026-11-06
- Core KnowledgeGuide
Core Knowledge in plain words: E. D. Hirsch's free PreK-8 Sequence, why knowledge matters for reading, a lesson, the Colorado lottery study and how to use it at home.
Checked 2026-11-06
- Curriculum for Excellence (Scotland)Guide
Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence in plain words: the five levels from Early to Fourth, P1 to S3, how they compare with England and the US, and how to support a child at home.
Checked 2026-11-06
- Curriculum for WalesGuide
The Curriculum for Wales in plain words: six areas of learning, progression steps at about ages 5, 8, 11, 14 and 16, Welsh and English, and the Years 2 to 9 online assessments.
Checked 2026-11-06
- EL Education K-8 Language ArtsGuide
EL Education K-8 Language Arts in plain words: its design ideas, how the materials are sold, what the pages do not say, and the free Peabody pages that go beside it.
Checked 2026-11-09
- HighScopeGuide
What the HighScope preschool curriculum is: plan-do-review, the eight content areas, a day in a HighScope room, and what Perry Preschool and the curriculum comparison study really found.
Checked 2026-11-06
- Ireland's Primary CurriculumGuide
Ireland's primary curriculum in plain words: Junior Infants to 6th Class, the 2023 Primary Curriculum Framework, the new maths curriculum, and the reading and maths tests in 2nd, 4th and 6th class.
Checked 2026-11-06
- Knowledge-building EnglishGuide
What knowledge-building ELA is: why background knowledge drives comprehension, how CKLA, EL Education and Wit & Wisdom work, and what reviewers found.
Checked 2026-11-06
- National curricula abroadGuide
England's key stages and SATs, Australia's F–10 and NAPLAN, Canada's provinces, Singapore's subject banding, Finland's core curriculum and Japan's Courses of Study, in plain words.
Checked 2026-11-06
- National Curriculum in EnglandGuide
England's key stages, year groups and national checks (phonics in Year 1, times tables in Year 4, SATs in Year 6), how they compare with US grades, and how to follow it at home.
Checked 2026-11-06
- New Zealand Curriculum (Te Mātaiaho)Guide
New Zealand's refreshed curriculum, Te Mātaiaho, in plain words: structured literacy from 2025, year-by-year English and maths, a new-entrant phonics check, and Years 0 to 13.
Checked 2026-11-06