Conventional studying materials such as textbooks are commonly easy to find. If you're concerned in the type of texts used in the schools, you can check with your local school district or county office of instruction to see if they have a curriculum library. Sometimes passage to such libraries is minuscule to collective school teachers, but often the collective is also allowed to examine school materials there. Media and technology centers, from which laboratory equipment, films, video and audio equipment and tapes, or computer hardware and software can be borrowed. Availability to homeschoolers will depend on state and district regulations.
Your area may also have a used book depository, where textbooks, library books, and equipment no longer used by area schools can be purchased for thrift-store prices or are free for the taking. Old encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference books are fairly coarse but are far outnumbered by the literature: historical novels, literary classics, just plain good reading. Some educational publishers will ask for a school buy order or for an order on your school letter head. Others are happy to sell textbooks to home-schoolers but draw the line at teachers' guides and reply keys. Some refuse to deal with homeschoolers at all, but a few educational publishers, such as Follett, have set up divisions specifically to serve the homeschool market.
College Textbooks
Also worth checking out are local trainer supply stores. Most homeschoolers will not be concerned in the endless racks of seasonal bulletin board decorations and "Great Job!" stickers, but many such market also carry lots of additional materials for science, math, and literature. Usually, you'll also find an assortment of paper and other consumables: colored construction paper, newsprint both blank and ruled for discrete grade levels, poster and finger paints, pens, and pencils. Dozens of catalog businesses are aimed at the home instruction market - with more popping up every day. Some in general carry books about homeschooling; others carry in general curricular materials.
Recently, as homeschooling has come to be more favorite and well-known, larger fellowships have entered the market, some carrying materials previously unavailable directly to homeschoolers and others carrying the more favorite products of smaller fellowships but undercutting their prices. If you tend to enjoy the more obscure resources, you might want to make a point of patronizing the smaller companies, even for those items available elsewhere, just to help keep those provocative but obscure items available.
A relatively new dement in the homeschooling market in up-to-date years are the independent dealers. Dorling Kindersley and Usborne Books are especially active in the homeschooling market, fueled largely by homeschooling parents who sell the books to afford to buy all the volumes they want for themselves.
Homeschooling Resources - Using Textbooks And Other Educational Materials
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