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Free Teaching Resources for EC-8th Grade
From reading lists to chalkboard ideas to lesson plans, explore all our resource bank has to offer.
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Welcome to Waldorf Inspirations

Featured Workshops and Symposiums

  • On Demand Trainings
  • Teaching Literacy In Grades 1-3
  • Learn at your own pace
    Presented by the Waldorf Inspirations Team

    New for You: Our workshops give you one-year full access…plan over the summer and review throughout the year.

  • Enhance your literacy instruction with a developmentally appropriate, phonics-based curriculum.
  • Get a step-by-step guide to teaching reading, writing, spelling, & more.
  • Engage in fun, effective practice activities to use with your class.
  • Go to On Demand Workshops
  • Live Online or Onsite Symposium
  • Creative Classroom Management
  • A Three-Hour Live Online or Onsite Symposium
    Presented by Patti Connolly, Waldorf teacher & mentor

    “Strike a chord with which the souls of our children happily vibrate.”
    - Rudolf Steiner

  • Brainstorm how to work with children's tendencies at each age
  • Understand and learning how to become the Wise Elder
  • Move to the next level in creating and following supportive classroom rhythms
  • Go to Classroom Management
  • Live Online Symposium
  • Teaching the Elegance of Writing
  • Language Arts in 4th through 8th Grade
    Presented by Anna Rainville; author, teacher, mentor

    True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance.
    - Alexander Pope.

  • Leading your students' journey from novice to accomplished writer.
  • Session 1: The Elegance of the Complete Sentence
  • Session 2: Reading for Information, Note Taking, and Composing a Paragraph
  • Go to Creative Writing Blocks

Coming Soon - Our New Bookshop

Roadmap
The Roadmap To Literacy
One of the most important tasks teachers and homeschool parents face in the early grades is teaching students the fundamental language skills that underlie all future learning. Fortunately, there is a guide to traversing this territory: The Roadmap to Literacy. This book presents the key phases students must master to become literate.
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More Coming Soon
Coming Soon
Stay tuned for exciting updates as Waldorf Inspirations is getting ready to offer a wealth of premium resources for purchase to save you time when preparing your lessons.
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Singing Games for Families, Schools, and Communities
Singing Games for Families, Schools, and Communities
Singing games are a part of every culture and generation. These gems provide healthy opportunities for sensory integration while lifting spirits and building community. Singing and moving together in simple or complicated forms appeals to all ages whether at home, in a classroom, or in a faculty meeting.
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Our Mission

We are committed to supporting you, our fellow Waldorf educators, with creative teaching gems and ideas that we hope will inspire and support your work. The heart of our website consists of over a thousand free teaching resources that others have gifted us or that we have created ourselves. We are also dedicated to helping teachers create an effective, creative, and, comprehensive language arts curriculum for the early grades, through our live and on-demand literacy courses and teaching aids.

We feel that much of the content of these free resources is the gift of our students’ angels who, as you will see when you explore our offerings, provided us with a lot of guidance during our combined 130 years of teaching! Since these ideas were gifts to us, we offer them to you in the same vein. You can adapt these resources to your unique group of students or homeschooler- or they can inspire you to create something brand new just for them!

Blessings on your teaching journey, the Waldorf Inspirations Team:
- Janet Langley, Patti Connolly, Anna Rainville, and Tim Connolly