Bring Learning to Life
A hands-on curriculum teachers love, Horizons consists of colorful workbooks that ground students in math and reading fundamentals. Fast-paced and spiral-based, this teacher-led curriculum introduces children to new concepts with engaging lessons that are easy to teach and fun to learn.
Effective Spiral Learning
Horizons Language Arts and Math use a spiral learning method that helps students master concepts through a natural process of introduction, review, and reinforcement. As students are introduced to new concepts and review material from previous lessons, they stay excited about learning while growing academically.
In-Depth Teacher's Guides
Step-by-step lesson plans in Horizons teacher's guides minimize preparation time and provide more than just answer keys. Fool-proof teaching tips, defined lesson goals, activity suggestions, recommended material lists, and additional review sheets allow teachers to easily plan and provide structure to each lesson.
Higher Reasoning Abilities
Analytical reasoning skills are used in making daily decisions. Beginning with the introduction of each concept, Horizons teaches these thinking skills to help students gain a complete understanding of the concept. Students begin to reason from the principles taught in Horizons lessons and apply them to real-life situations.
Christian Worldview
Horizons courses support a Christian worldview that complements teachers in their biblical teaching. Several of the courses integrate scripture verses directly into the lessons. For example, Horizons Preschool uniquely uses the Bible to present a Christian worldview through all academic studies.
Increased Student Engagement
Engaging lessons and a variety of activities make learning fun, while complete teacher materials make it easy to ensure student progress. Since teacher/student interaction is an integral part of this program, both the teacher and student materials are necessary for a comprehensive exposure to concepts.
Clearly-Defined Objectives
Expectations for student performance and progress are given for each lesson. Should a student fall behind, diagnosis and remedy are easy accomplished.
Helpful Teaching Tips
Each teacher's guide includes tips to enhance the teaching process and provide teachers with useful information that helps students master concepts.
Extra Practice
Extra worksheets can be reproduced for students who demonstrate strong aptitude or who could use additional work to provide a boost in confidence.
PreK
Filled with colorful lessons, Horizons gives children ages 3-5 a solid foundation for educational success while offering comprehensive, Bible-based lessons that easily can be adapted to fit the needs and schedule of a variety of preschool programs.
Horizons Preschool for Three's is a 40-week program for three-year-olds that addresses cognitive development, pre-reading and numeracy skills, language acquisition, and school readiness.
Sample Pages (3's)Horizons Preschool prepares four-year-olds for kindergarten with 180 lessons in social studies, language arts, math, phonics, and science.
Sample Pages (4's)Health
Horizons Health is a Christian-based health curriculum with practical, informative lessons filled with tips on how to live a healthy life. Hands-on and activity-based courses teach students Christian health themes in easy-to-follow, step-by-step formats.
See Sample PagesMath
Horizons Math, for grades K-8, uses a well-balanced, organized approach for teaching math skills. Using memorization and drill, Horizons Math follows a deliberate pattern of introduction and gradual development to ensure student success.
See Sample PagesMath Readiness Evaluations
Penmanship
Horizons Penmanship is a Bible-based, writing curriculum designed to teach students the importance of good handwriting skills. Starting with proper letter formations, students will learn both cursive and manuscript writing.
See Sample PagesPhonics & Reading
For grades K-3, Horizons Phonics & Reading is a phonetic-based word-recognition and early reading program. Horizons Phonics & Reading covers spelling, alphabetizing, and rhyming, as well as vocabulary development, sentence structure, phrases, and the parts of speech.
See Sample PagesP.E.
Horizons Physical Education is an activity-filled curriculum packed with learning exercise techniques, important fitness skills, and healthy living habits taught from a Christian perspective. Divided into four complete teacher's guides covering PreK-12th grade.
See Sample PagesSpelling & Vocabulary
Exciting and motivating, phonics-based Horizons Spelling & Vocabulary gives a comprehensive presentation of spelling concepts. Built-in flexibility allows teachers to add words to the weekly lists and to tailor writing assignments to meet individual student needs.
See Sample Pages“In my opinion, Horizons is head and shoulders above other curriculums in both math and phonics.”
- Jeffrey M., School AdministratorAdditional Features
With Horizons' spiral learning method, students are introduced to new concepts and review material from previous lessons, keeping them excited about learning while growing academically.
Engaging Lessons
Much of the student material is filled with hands-on lessons and illustrations that complement the activities to help students understand concepts.
Colorful Curriculum
Eye-catching graphics and illustrations make the student material appealing and keep students focused on lessons.
Learning Manipulatives
A handy list of suggested activities and inexpensive materials helps students better visualize the application of principles with hands-on learning.
Rapid Progress
Horizons stresses knowledge of basic facts and computational skills with the belief that students can excel when they can quickly recall facts.
Readiness Evaluations
Determining a student's readiness is the first step to successful teaching. That's why each teacher's guide for math begins with an assessment of prior knowledge.
Daily Lesson Guides
Each activities section in the teacher's guide provides detailed instructions that take the guesswork out of teaching.
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