Family Life Magazine
July 13, 2010 by editor · Leave a Comment
The Amish publishing house, Pathway Publishers, publishes three magazines: Family Life, Young Companion, and Blackboard Bulletin. The most popular of these three is Family Life, designed for adults and families. It contains articles on Christian living, parenting, and homemaking. It also contains editorials, letters from readers, medical advice, poems, recipes, and children’s stories. As of 2010, Family Life magazine has over 31,000 monthly subscribers. It is published 11 times per year.
Pathway also publishes two other magazines. Young Companion is targeted to teens and children. It contains stories with Christian messages-including lesson stories, adventure stories, and Amish romance. Blackboard Bulletin is designed for Amish school teachers, but is also helpful for homeschool parents.
Pathway Publishers offers a discounted subscription price when a person subscribes to all three magazines. As a result, over 85% of Family Life subscribers get all three magazines.
Unlike the other Pathway publications, subscriptions to their magazines can only be obtained by mailing in a request, along with a check, to the Pathway Canadian office:
Pathway Publishers
10380 Carter Rd.
Route 4, Aylmer
Ontario N5H 2R3
Canada
The 2015 price for a 1st class stamp to Canada is $1.15
Subscription costs for one year:
Blackboard Bulletin $7.00
Family Life $11.00
Young Companion $8.00
Combined subscription for all three magazines: $21.00
VERY IMPORTANT:
When you mail in your own subscription, it will take 6 to 8 weeks to receive your first monthly issue. The reason for this is that Pathway will not send you your first issue as soon as they receive your subscription order. Rather, they will add your name to their subscription list. Your first issue will then go out on their next mailing. Please do not order if you are not willing to wait up to 8 weeks to receive your first issue..
Pathway Readers
April 30, 2010 by editor · Leave a Comment
Pathway Publishers has issued thirteen readers in the Pathway Readers series. These readers are designed to take a student from kindergarten through eighth grade. There are also optional workbooks and teachers manual for all of these readers.
The thirteen sets of titles in this series are as follows:
Pathway Readers Series Grade 1: “Learning How to Read” Series
$60.70
This package contains the following 14 items:
• Before We Read
• Learning Through Sounds: Books 1 and 2
• Helping Yourself
• First Steps (pre-primer)
• First Steps workbook
• Days Go By: reader and workbook
• More Days Go By: reader and workbook
• Flash cards for these Pathway readers
• Three teachers’ manuals
14 books, workbooks, manuals, & flash cards: $60.70 total
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Pathway Readers Series Grade 2: “Busy Times” Series
$38.00
This package contains the following 9 items:
• Busy Times
• More Busy Times
• Climbing Higher
• Three workbooks for these three readers
• Three Teacher’s manuals
9 books, workbooks, & manuals: $38.00 total
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Pathway Readers Series Grade 3: “New Friends” Series
$28.50
This package contains the following 6 items:
• New Friends reader
• More New Friends reader
• Two workbooks for these three readers
• Two Teacher’s manuals
6 books, workbooks, & manuals: $28.50 total
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Pathway Readers Series Grade 4: “Building Our Lives” Series
$15.25
This package contains the following 3 items:
• Building Our Lives reader
• Building Our Lives workbook
• Teacher’s manual
1 book, 1 workbook, & 1 manual: $15.25 total
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Pathway Readers Series Grade 5: “Living Together” Series
$15.25
This package contains the following 3 items:
• Living Together reader
• Living Together workbook
• Teacher’s manual
1 book, 1 workbook, & 1 manual: $15.25 total
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Pathway Readers Series Grade 6: “Step by Step” Series
$15.25
This package contains the following 3 items:
• Step by Step reader
• Step by Step workbook
• Teacher’s manual
1 book, 1 workbook, & 1 manual: $15.25 total
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Pathway Readers Series Grade 7: “Seeking True Value” Series
$15.25
This package contains the following 3 items:
• Seeking True Values reader
• Seeking True Values workbook
• Teacher’s manual
1 book, 1 workbook, & 1 manual: $15.25 total
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Pathway Readers Series Grade 8: “Our Heritage” Series
$15.25
This package contains the following 3 items:
• Our Heritage reader
• Our Heritage workbook
• Teacher’s manual
1 book, 1 workbook, & 1 manual: $15.25 total
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Note:
Each of the Pathway readers, workbooks, and teacher’s manuals can also be purchased separately. To purchase them separately, simply click here on Pathway individual readers.
Supplemental Educational Material
April 30, 2010 by editor · Leave a Comment
Tips for Teachers
$3.49
This workbook contains the insights of 86 different teachers gleaned from the years of teaching Amish schools. The workbook is specifically written for Amish schoolteachers, but many of the tips will apply equally to other church schools and to homeschools.
96 pp. Workbook. Paper.
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Learning to Drive Safely with a Horse and Buggy Workbook
$2.45
Have you ever wondered what’s involved in driving a horse and buggy? This workbook is written for Amish young people and adults to teach them how to safely drive a horse and buggy on roads with cars. Makes interesting reading for those of us who are not Amish. 54 pp. Workbook.
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Let’s Learn German Workbook for Beginners
$2.25
This workbook is designed to teach children how to read the old Gothic typeface used in old (and some modern) Anabaptist German works.
80 pp. Workbook.
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Let’s Read German
$7.49
This is a textbook designed to be used once a student has mastered the old Gothic typeface (taught in Let’s Learn German ). It contains interesting farm stories in the German language, written on a child’s level.
207 pp. Hardback.
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Working with Words-Grade 4
$2.25
This workbook is designed to be used alongside the Pathway Readers fourth grade curriculum to enrich the student’s vocabulary and to enhance the student’s reading comprehension. This workbook is independent of the Building Our Lives readers and curriculum.
96 pp. Workbook. $2.25
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Working with Words-Grade 5
$2.25
This workbook is designed to be used alongside the Pathway Readers fifth grade curriculum to enrich the student’s vocabulary and to enhance the student’s reading comprehension. This workbook is independent of the Living Together readers and curriculum.
96 pp. Workbook. $2.25
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Working with Words-Grade 6
$2.25
This workbook is designed to be used alongside the Pathway Readers sixth grade Step by Step curriculum to enrich the student’s vocabulary and to enhance the student’s reading comprehension. Although this workbook can be used independently with any curriculum, it is specifically designed to supplement the Step by Step readers and curriculum.
96 pp. Workbook. $2.25
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Working with Words-Grade 7
$2.25
This workbook is designed to be used alongside the Pathway Readers seventh grade Seeking True Values curriculum to enrich the student’s vocabulary and to enhance the student’s reading comprehension. Although this workbook can be used independently with any curriculum, it is specifically designed to supplement the Seeking True Values reader and curriculum.
96 pp. Workbook. $2.25
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Working with Words-Grade 8
$2.25
This workbook is designed to be used alongside the Pathway Readers eighth grade Our Heritage curriculum to enrich the student’s vocabulary and to enhance the student’s reading comprehension. Although this workbook can be used independently with any curriculum, it is specifically designed to supplement the Our Heritage reader and curriculum.
96 pp. Workbook. $2.25
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Working with Words Teacher’s Edition-Grade 4
$4.75
This workbook is designed to be used alongside the Pathway Readers fourth grade curriculum to enrich the student’s vocabulary and to enhance the student’s reading comprehension. This workbook is independent of the Building Our Lives readers and curriculum.
96 pp. Teachers Edition. $4.75
Teacher’s Edition of Grade 5 Vocabulary
$4.75
Teacher’s workbook for 5th grade vocabulary builder, Working with Words.
96 pp. Teachers Edition. $4.75
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Teacher’s Edition of Grade 6 Vocabulary
$4.75
Teacher’s workbook for 6th grade vocabulary builder, Working with Words.
96 pp. Teachers Edition. $4.75
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Teacher’s Edition of Grade 7 Vocabulary
$4.75
Teacher’s workbook for 7th grade vocabulary builder, Working with Words.
96 pp. Teachers Edition. $4.75
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Teacher’s Edition of Grade 8 Vocabulary
$4.75
Teacher’s workbook for 8th grade vocabulary builder, Working with Words.
96 pp. Teachers Edition. $4.75
Pathway Fiction: Ages 6 – 12
April 29, 2010 by editor · Leave a Comment
Amish Books: Fiction for Boys and Girls, Ages 6 to 12
The best way for your children to learn about the Amish is to read true-to-life stories written by Amish mothers and fathers.
Between Heaven and Earth
$8.00
Ages 8-12. by Joseph Stoll. Levi Byler had grand dreams of going to college to be a doctor. However, his widowed mother and other Amish relatives tried to convince him not to go. Based on real-life events, but with many details changed. This book also includes eleven additional shorter stories.
211 pp. Hardback. $8.00
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Fiction: Teens and Young Adults
April 29, 2010 by editor · Leave a Comment
Amish Books for Teens and Young Adults
Footprints in the Sand
$8.00
Rebecca Martin. This is the 2nd book in the “Nancy Martin” series. In this sequel to The Pineapple Quilt, Nancy Martin accompanies her brother to a new farm in a different Amish community. It has 27 chapters with such titles as “Haunted Blue Castle” and “From Cloud Nine to Number Six.”
288 pp. Hardback. $8.00
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