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Coaching with Sarah
Currently available in RAR Premium:
- Teaching Literature Without a Curriculum
- Furnishing the Mind: A Simple, Low-Pressure Method for Memorizing Poetry & Scripture
- Read for What You Need (nurturing your own reading life)
- Scheduling Your Curriculum to Work for You
- Opening & Closing Ceremonies in Your Homeschool
- Water Your Bamboo: How to Focus on the Process, Not the Outcome
- Melting the Ice Cube: How to Make 1 Degree Shifts in Your Homeschool
- Making Time for Your Own Reading: Nurturing Your Reading Life
- Any Benefit Syndrome: Stemming General Overwhelm
- How to Assess the School Year That Didn’t Go as Planned
- Developing a Rule of Six to Teach from Rest
- Using Curriculum as a Tool to Teach from Rest
- Simplifying at the Start of a School Year
- Assigning Books to Preserve Your Child’s Love of Reading
- Almost Everything is Fixable (but not everything needs fixing)
- The Seashell Approach: An Invitation to Wonder
- Best Tips for Talking with Your Kids About Books
Master Classes
Currently available in RAR Premium:
- Setting Yourself Up to Teach from Rest, Sarah Mackenzie
- Loving Your Life as a Homeschooling Mom, Sarah Mackenzie
- Creating a Book Club Culture at Home, Sarah Mackenzie
- How to Talk with Your Kids About Books, Sarah Mackenzie
- Focus & Align 2.0 (the homeschooling course), Sarah Mackenzie
- Homeschooling the Early Years, Sarah Mackenzie
- Simple Reading Journals for Kids, Sarah Mackenzie
- What I Wish I Knew When I Was Homeschooling, Sally Clarkson
- Introduction to Nature Journaling, Kristin Rogers
- Voice Acting for Mamas, Mackenzie Koppa
- Teaching from Rest in the High School Years, Heather Woodie
- Find Your Personality’s Superpower 2.0, Mystie Winckler
- Getting Started with Shakespeare, Ken Ludwig
- How Not to Have School at Home, Carole Joy Seid
- How Fairy Tales Shape the Moral Imagination, Andrew Pudewa
- Teaching History & Science through Story, Pam Barnhill
Mama Book Clubs
Currently available in RAR Premium:
- The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie
- Teaching from Rest by Sarah Mackenzie
- The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin
- Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
- The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller
- Steeped in Stories by Mitali Perkins
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
- Better Together by Pam Barnhill
- A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle
- The World According to Narnia by Jonathan Rogers
- Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
- Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
- Caught Up in a Story by Sarah Clarkson
Drawing & Writing Workshops
Currently available in RAR Premium:
WOW: Writers on Writing
- Three Keys of Visual Storytelling, Ben Hatke
- How to Collage, Melissa Sweet
- How to Write Nonets, Irene Latham
- Show, Don’t Tell, Jonathan Rogers
- Equation Poems, Laura Purdie Salas
- Storytelling Made Simple, Jonathan Auxier
- Creative Ways to Research, Barb Rosenstock
- Getting Creative with Nonfiction, Miranda Paul
- Writing the Hero’s Journey, Maryrose Wood
- Noisy Writing: Using Details, Barb Rosenstock
- Noisy Details II (Figurative Language), Barb Rosenstock
- Poetry 101, Caroline Starr Rose
- Harvesting Stories from Your Own Life, Laura Martin
- Where the Magic Happens – Revision! Kate Messner
- Writing from Your Family’s History, Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Keeping a Hero’s Journal, Jonathan Auxier
- Punching Up Your Writing with Figurative Language, Barb Rosenstock
- Creating Compelling Characters, Caroline Starr Rose
- Rabbits with Words, SD Smith
- Playing with Words, Jennifer Trafton
- Playing with Poetry, Laura Purdie Salas
Drawing/Illustration:
- Drawing Lessons based on Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn
- Drawing Lessons based on Thank You, Omu!
- Drawing Lessons based on Before She Was Harriet
- Drawing Lessons based on The Book of Mistakes
- Drawing Lessons based on The NErviest Girl in the World
- Drawing Lessons based on A Race Around the World
- Chalk Pastels: Little House on the Prairie (Nana)
- Drawing: Fall/Autumn (Ralph Masiello)
- Drawing: Outer Space (Ralph Masiello)
- Drawing: St. Patrick’s Day (Ralph Masiello)
- Drawing: Christmas (Ralph Masiello)
- Drawing: Summer (Ralph Masiello)
- Illustration 101 (Jonathan Bean)
Family Book Clubs
Currently available in RAR Premium:
(Author/Illustrator Access guest is named in parentheses)
- Sarah, Plain and Tall (Patricia MacLachlan)
- Prairie Days (Micha Archer)
- The Hobbit (Tolkien)
- John Ronald’s Dragons: The Story of J.R.R. Tolkien (Wheeler)
- A Splash of Red (Jen Bryant & Melissa Sweet)
- A River of Words (Jen Bryant & Melissa Sweet)
- Mornings with Monet (Mary GrandPré)
- It Began with a Page (Kyo Maclear)
- The Year of Miss Agnes
- Nature’s Friend: The Gwen Frostic Story (Lindsey McDivitt)
- Adventures with Waffles (Maria Parr)
- Before She Was Harriet (James Ransome and Lesa Cline-Ransome)
- The Book of Mistakes (Corinna Luyken)
- Christmas School (Tomie dePaola)
- A Race Around the World (Caroline Starr Rose)
- Thank You, Omu! (Oge Mora)
- Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn (Kenard Pak)
- Tuesdays at the Castle (Jessica Day George)
- Prairie Boy (Christopher Paul Curtis)
- Nine Months (Jason Chin)
- Balderdash (Nancy Carpenter)
- Hello Lighthouse (Sophie Blackall)
- Home in the Woods (Eliza Wheeler)
- Little House on the Prairie (Renée Graef)
- Extra Yarn (Mac Barnett)
- The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (PJ Lynch)
- The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (Karina Yan Glaser)
- Apples to Oregon (Deborah Hopkinson)
- The Gardener (Sarah Stewart & David Small)
- Otis and Will Discover the Deep (Barb Rosenstock)
- Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt (Kate Messner)
- Goldfish on Vacation (Sally Lloyd-Jones)
- Raising a Hero (Laura Numeroff)
- Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland (Tomie dePaola)
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Jonathan Rogers)
- Snowflake Bentley (Jacqueline Briggs Martin)
- A Single Shard (Linda Sue Park)
- Tops and Bottoms (Janet Stevens)
- The Tale of Desperaux (Kate DiCamillo)
- Okay for Now (Gary D. Schmidt)
- Fablehaven (Brandon Mull)
- The Long-Lost Home (Maryrose Wood)
- 100 Cupboards (ND wilson)
- Strega Nona (Tomie dePaola)
- Locamotive (Brian Floca)
- American Tall Tales (Mary Pope Osborne)
- The Circus Ship (Chris Van Dusen)
- Owl Moon (Jane Yolen)
- The Mysterious Benedict Society (Trenton Lee Stewart)
- Number the Stars (Lois Lowry)
- Hattie Big Sky (Kirby Larson)
- The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place (Maryrose Wood)
- The Seven Silly Eaters (Marla Frazee)
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Grace Lin)
- The Wingfeather Saga (Andrew Peterson)
- Princess Academy (Shannon Hale)
- Growly Books (Philip & Erin Ulrich)
- A Poem for Peter ( Andrea Davis Pinkney)
- Thundercake (Patricia Polacco)
- Charlie Needs a Cloak (Tomie dePaola)
- The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic (Jennifer Trafton)
- I Want My Hat Back (Jon Klassen)
- The Way Things Work (David Macaulay)
- One-Dog Canoe (Mary Casanova)
- Our Only May Amelia (Jennifer Holm)
- Blue Birds (Caroline Starr Rose)
- The Green Ember (SD Smith)
- The Prairie Thief (Melissa Wiley)
- Hank the Cowdog (John Erickson)
- This is My Home, This is My School (Jonathan Bean)
- Water Can Be (Laura Purdie Salas)
- Boxes for Katje (Candace Fleming)
- Poppy (Avi)
- Frindle (Andrew Clements)
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