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The Word Slinging Wench creates imaginative learning resources for curious students, homeschool families, co-ops, tutors, and creative educators. From weird history, folklore, inventions, and local legends to Gothic horror, haunted houses, monsters, story starters, and guided creative writing, these mini units are designed to help learners explore big ideas through unusual topics, thoughtful questions, vivid details, and meaningful final projects. Created by Judith Riggs, The Word Slinging Wench blends storytelling, research, creativity, and practical printable lessons for students who learn best when curiosity leads the way. Whether students are investigating strange places, building a project, designing an original monster, or crafting an atmospheric story, each resource encourages imagination, critical thinking, and confident creative expression.
Free resource alert! The third and final installment of the America 250 Freebies! My Curious Inventions & American Ingenuity Mini Unit is now available! Created as part of my free America 250 mini unit set, this project-based resource helps students explore inventions, accidental discoveries, clever ideas, design thinking, source evaluation, and the problem-solvers who helped shape American history. Perfect for homeschool history, STEM, co-ops, middle/high school social studies, research projects, and curious learners who love gadgets, strange inventions, and big questions. Every invention begins with a problem. What problem was this supposed to solve? image
Free resource alert! My Mysterious Maps & Strange Places of the United States Mini Unit is now available! Created as part of my free America 250 mini unit set, this project-based resource helps students explore ghost towns, strange landmarks, historic routes, boundary questions, local mysteries, and the hidden stories maps can reveal. Perfect for homeschool geography, U.S. history, co-ops, middle/high school social studies, research projects, and curious learners who love unusual places. Every map tells a story. What happened here? image
Free resource alert! My Odd Jobs & Forgotten Trades of Early America Mini Unit is now available! Created as part of my free America 250 mini unit set, this project-based resource helps students explore the workers, tools, trades, apprenticeships, and everyday skills that helped early American communities function. Perfect for homeschool history, co-ops, middle/high school social studies, research projects, and curious learners who like unusual history. How did people actually work and live? Let’s find out. image
New bundle alert! 🕯️ The Spooky Creative Writing Mini Unit Bundle is now available! This bundle includes three printable creative writing resources: • Gothic Horror • Haunted House • Monster Stories Each mini unit helps students build atmosphere, suspense, setting, character conflict, story ideas, and opening scenes or short stories. Perfect for homeschool language arts, middle/high school ELA, creative writing, co-ops, writing clubs, and spooky-season lessons. Write something strange. Open the door. Meet the monster. image