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Welcome! I want to help you bring your children’s home education to life and help you have a happy, thriving home, through our curricula, teaching resources, and experienced mentoring. Bookmark this page because it’ll help you quickly get where you want to go on our website. 

I’m Dana Wilson, a homeschool mom “graduate” who home educated from kindergarten through high school. By God’s grace, our children graduated from college and graduate school, and are now grown with young families of their own.

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PRODUCT CATEGORIES

We offer literature-based curricula and teaching tools integrating history, science, language arts, and fine arts for kindergarten through high school.

Train Up a Child Publishing: Unit Study Tools
Unit Study Tools
Train Up a Child Publishing: Unit Study Tools
Daily Lesson Plans
Train Up a Child Publishing: Teacher Resources
Teacher Resources
Train Up a Child Publishing: High School Courses
High School Courses
Train Up a Child Publishing: High School Literature
Literature
Train Up a Child Publishing: High School English Electives
English Electives

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Train Up a Child Publishing: 60 Assignment Ideas for Using Real Books

60 Assignment Ideas (K-HS) Using Real Books

How to bring life to your kids’ education by teaching history, science, and language arts using excellent literature instead of dry textbooks!

We really like the cookie dough map idea!

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We really like the cookie dough map idea! This is one to use over and over. My kids were so excited about it! Thanks so much for the idea!
Kelly

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This is the BEST email I have gotten in a long time! Thank you for encouraging us to obey the Lord and look to Him to meet our needs!! 
Courtney

One of my favorite curriculums I’ve ever used.

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One of my favorite curriculums I’ve ever used is this one. We experimented with it when it was new on the market… and now there are moms using it all over the world. What began as the most impressive book list I’d ever seen (and I am a “book gal”) has now evolved into high school classes and full lesson plans with everything but math.
Kelly

Wow, what an incredible resource!

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Wow, what an incredible resource for others who are interested in homeschooling. You’ve done everyone a great service!
Lisa

This is the most thorough approach I have ever seen.

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It’s hard to find such an adaptable, usable, resourceful, specific, easy to follow curriculum such as this. In fact even though we have used many other resources over the years . . . this is the most thorough approach I have ever seen to integrating subject areas in common themes that make a lot of common sense.
Kelly

I can’t wait to use your daily lesson plans!

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I’m already excited about planning for next year. Thinking about starting new material is encouraging us to finish what we have this year more quickly! I can’t wait to start using your daily lesson plans!
Michelle

BLOG POST CATEGORIES

Have a burning question about homeschooling? You could find your answer on our blog. Below are some of the main categories I blog about.

Train Up a Child Publishing: Unit Study Tools
Lifegiving Homeschooling
Train Up a Child Publishing: Charlotte Mason Inspired Curriculum
Charlotte Mason Inspired
Train Up a Child Publishing: How-To's and Lesson Plans
How-To’s And Lesson Plans
Train Up a Child Publishing: Literature-Based Learning
Literature-Based Learning

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Featured Free Resources

We’d love to support you on your home education journey! Take advantage of our free resources, with more to come if you become part of our online community.

Train Up a Child Publishing: Unit Study Tools
Basic Habit Training Printable
Train Up a Child Publishing: Your Big Picture Plan for High School Workbook
Your Big Picture Plan for High School Workbook
Train Up a Child Publishing: 25 Terrific Tips to Transform Your Christian Homeschool
25 Terrific Tips to Transform Your Christian Homeschool

FAQS

If you’d love to create your own units but would prefer to have a framework to build on, you’ll prefer our Unit Study Tools. Alternatively, suppose you’re looking for an open-and-go solution that includes daily lessons in history, science, language arts (reading, writing, poetry, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, etc.), and fine arts. In that case, our Daily Lesson Plans will be the best choice for you.

Although the Bible isn’t a subject area we cover, we use it extensively during our study of the “Ancients” unit, discuss theology during the “Renaissance & Reformation” Unit, and include it in our high school curricula in various ways. All of our curriculum, including our high school classes, are written from a biblical worldview. Our high school public speaking course even has your student write an apologetic speech.

Our Essay Styles for High School will help your advanced 8th or high school student write the five most common high school essays. We include essays written by high school students and demonstrate how they were graded. We also include evaluation tips for the first and subsequent drafts of each essay type your student will write. (We’ve got you!)

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