Age 7 to 9
Overview
Recognize differences in pitch and tone by creating your own instruments. Explore how technology has changed the world — from pyramids to skyscrapers. Write a creative story about a quadrilateral. Watch a caterpillar move through each stage of its lifecycle — becoming a beautiful butterfly. Write a story about two friends learning to celebrate their differences. Play fraction bingo with family and friends.
Children that are ready for the Age 7-9 level do not typically need an additional reading program as they have in younger levels. By the time children are reading at a 3rd grade level, they begin reading to learn insted of learning to read. From this point forward, children will develop their reading skills simply by reading broadly through different types of texts — including novels, biography, non-fiction, and poetry.
The Age 7-9 level uses these and many more activities to provide one year of academic instruction in science, social studies, language arts, and math.
Prerequisites
Language Arts
- Able to read and comprehend chapter books on a 3rd or early 4th grade reading level
- Can answer comprehension questions about a chapter in a journal
- Able to write three or four sentences on a topic
- Usually used by children in second or third grade
Math
- Can add and subtract three-digit numbers
- Able to interpret pictographs, bar graphs, and line plots
- Understands place value to 1000
- Usually used by children in the third grade
What's New and Different for Age 7-9
If you have used Moving Beyond the Page in the younger age levels, you will notice that we have changed the format of our curriculum at the Age 7-9 level and higher. In the lower age levels, the science, social studies, and language arts curricula were fully integrated into a single lesson. Now that children are able to read chapter books, the language arts, science, and social studies lessons are provided separately. In language arts, this takes the form of literature units. This enables your child to learn all of his language arts content in an engaging format that centers around interesting stories and characters. We continue to tie in science and social studies, but instead of doing this within each lesson, we do it thematically. When children study weather in science, they will be reading a book that shows the impact of weather on a family. When they are studying sound, they will read a biography of Helen Keller, learning what life is like without sound. As in the lower levels, the math content is not integrated thematically with the other units, but it is still presented in a project-based format that integrates interesting and creative books throughout the curriculum.
The outline for each concept is listed below and shows how each literature unit ties in with the primary concept of each unit.
Science and Social Studies
Language Arts
Concept 1: Environment
Unit 2. Sarah, Plain and Tall
Unit 3. Who Was Helen Keller?
Concept 2: Change
Unit 1. Environments Change
Unit 2. Communities Change Over Time
Unit 2. Communities and Culture
Unit 3. People Change the World
Concept 3: Cycles
Unit 3. The Family Under the Bridge
Concept 4: Relationships
Unit 1. One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest
Unit 2. Government and the People
Unit 3. Connected Cultures
Math Units
Math
Unit 1. Multiplication and Division I
Unit 4. Multiplication and Division II
Unit 5. Area and Perimeter
In the Age 7-9 curriculum, your child will explore all subject areas using a hands-on and investigative approach. Oftentimes, homeschoolers are only taught reading, writing, and math during the early years, but a truly comprehensive curriculum will expose them to science and social studies as well. These subjects can be the most engaging and exciting for a young child. The curriculum is also filled with quality literature to enjoy with your child.
Beyond Standards
Because all lessons are based on state and national standards, your child will learn all of the necessary skills for his age. Your child will continue to be challenged to read and write at a higher level.
Summary of Skills
The links below will take you to the Summary of Skills for each of the concepts that make up the Age 7-9 curriculum. The
Summary of Skills is a list of the state and national standards that are covered within Moving Beyond the Page. This list can be useful
for your own planning purposes, but it is also quite helpful when submitting required documentation to fulfill state and local reporting
requirements.
What Else Do I Need?
With Moving Beyond the Page you will have everything you need for a full year of homeschooling that will engage and challenge your child in science, social studies, language arts, and math.
Schedule Worksheets
Age 7-9 Curriculum Samples
Concept 1: Environment
Unit 1 - Tornado [LA]
Unit 2 - Sarah, Plain and Tall [LA]
Lesson 6 - Life on the Prairie
Unit 2 - The Land [S]
Lesson 8 - My Environment
Unit 3 - Who Was Helen Keller? [LA]
Lesson 3 - Helen's Challenges
Concept 2: Change
Unit 1 - Environments Change [SS]
Lesson 1 - Heat Causes Change
Unit 2 - Communities Change Over Time [SS]
Lesson 3 - What Is A Civilization?
Concept 3: Cycles
Unit 1 - Life Cycles [S]
Lesson 4 - Insect Life Cycles
Unit 3 - The Family Under the Bridge [LA]
Math
Unit 1 - Multiplication and Division I
Lesson 1 - Getting Ready to Multiply
Unit 4 - Multiplication and Division II
Lesson 6 - The Distributive Property of Multiplication
Unit 6 - Fractions
Lesson 2 - Naming Fractions
Unit 8 - Graphing Data
