Pack Includes:

• Springtime Conversations Discovery Guide

• Springtime Conversations Student Book

• Little Red Riding Hood

• Little Red and the Big Bad Wolf/Editor

• Who Hatches the Egg

• An Extraordinary Egg

• Hey, Little Ant

• Ants

Springtime Conversations uses beloved picture books and guided activities to enrich your child’s vocabulary, comprehension and writing skills, while fostering curiosity, confidence and joyful parent–child bonding. It turns storytime into a fun learning adventure that builds language and critical thinking.

Order your Springtime Conversations Discovery Guide today and watch your child’s love of learning bloom!

🌷 Springtime Conversations Discovery Guide

A Gentle, Faith-Filled Language Arts Journey for Early Learners

Bring your homeschool days to life this spring with the Springtime Conversations Discovery Guide—a thoughtfully designed, literature-based program that helps your child grow in reading, writing, and communication through meaningful stories and hands-on learning.

Created for early elementary learners, this guide invites you and your child to slow down, connect, and enjoy rich conversations centered around engaging, spring-themed books. Each lesson is designed to nurture not just academic skills, but also character, creativity, and confidence.

✨ What Makes This Guide Special?

📖 Literature-Rich Learning
Your child will explore beloved stories and nonfiction texts through guided read-alouds that build vocabulary, comprehension, and a love for books.

💬 Conversation-Based Approach
Through thoughtful questions and discussions, your child learns to express ideas, listen well, and engage deeply with what they read—an essential foundation for lifelong learning.

✏️ Integrated Language Arts
Reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar come together naturally. Your child will:

• Practice storytelling and retelling

• Build strong sentence-writing skills

• Learn phonics patterns and high-frequency words

• Grow in confidence as a writer

🖐️ Hands-On & Engaging Activities
From drawing and storytelling to outdoor exploration and creative projects, each lesson brings learning off the page and into real life—making it memorable and fun.

📖 Faith-Based Connections
Biblical truths are gently woven throughout the lessons, helping children connect what they learn with character, kindness, and God’s Word.

🗓️ Simple, Flexible Structure for Busy Homeschool Days

Each unit follows an easy 5-day rhythm:

• Day 1–4: New learning through reading, writing, and activities

• Day 5: Review and reinforce skills at your child’s pace

Whether you prefer a structured schedule or a more relaxed approach, this guide adapts to your family’s needs.

💛 Designed with Both Parent and Child in Mind

You’ll love the clear, step-by-step guidance that makes teaching simple—even if you don’t feel like a “teacher.” Your child will love the engaging stories, creative activities, and the joy of learning alongside you.

Make this spring a season of growth, connection, and joyful learning in your homeschool.

Pack Includes:

• Heart of Thanks Discovery Guide (step-by-step lessons, teaching strategies, extension ideas)

• Heart of Thanks Student Book (consumable activity pages and reference charts)

• God Gave Us Thankful Hearts

• The Story of the Pilgrims

• Wild Turkeys

This Discovery Guide focuses on Thanksgiving and its connection to gratitude. It introduces three books that have a Thanksgiving correlation, aiming to help students learn about the Bible's teachings and appreciate the joy of being together.

A joyful Thanksgiving-themed language arts adventure for early learners!

Help young learners grow thankful hearts and strong literacy skills with this engaging, literature-rich study from Total Language Plus! Centered around three delightful children’s books (God Gave Us Thankful Hearts, The Story of the Pilgrims, and Wild Turkeys), this four-week Discovery Guide blends reading, writing, vocabulary, Bible learning, and hands-on activities into meaningful seasonal lessons your family will love.

Through daily read-alouds, Gratitude Journal writing, poetry, word work, and creative extension activities, students deepen comprehension while exploring themes of gratitude, God’s provision, and the true history behind Thanksgiving. Each lesson is open-and-go, designed to make learning joyful — not overwhelming!

Students will:

• Build foundational reading and writing skills

• Learn high-frequency words, nouns, verbs, and sentence writing

• Explore nonfiction text features through engaging turkey facts

• Discover the Pilgrims’ journey and friendship with Native Americans

• Practice thankfulness through Scripture-based connections

Perfect for:
Homeschool families, co-ops, and early elementary learners who thrive with hands-on, literature-based instruction.

Celebrate God’s goodness this season — one thankful heart at a time!

Includes:

• Teacher’s Discovery Guide (step-by-step lessons, teaching strategies, extension ideas)

• Student Book (consumable activity pages and reference charts)

• Apples, Apples, Apples Book

• The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree

• Sophie’s Squash

• From Seed to Pumpkin

• The Scarecrow

• The Not-So-Scary Scarecrow

Bring autumn learning to life with Seasons, Squash and Scarecrows from Total Language Plus! This engaging, literature-based unit pairs beloved fall-themed picture books with interactive lessons that build reading, writing, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills—all while nurturing biblical values. Each fall book pair provides 6 days of instruction, for a total of about 18 days or about 1 month worth of instruction. 

Your student will enjoy rich read-aloud experiences, explore the “Fruit of the Spirit” through stories, and connect with God’s creation by learning about apples, pumpkins, squash, and scarecrows. Field trip ideas are included. Each 6-day book pairing includes:

• Guided Comprehension Plans with before, during, and after reading questions

• Bible Connections that link story themes to Scripture

• Hands-On Extensions like apple printing, retelling puppets, and scarecrow games

• Word Work & Writing Activities to build phonics, handwriting, and creative expression

• Poetry Exploration to grow a love of language

• Student Reference Charts for vowels, high-frequency words, and handwriting

Perfect for early elementary learners, this guide fosters joy-filled literacy while encouraging kindness, gratitude, and care for God’s world. This guide is set up for family style learning for students in Grades K-2.