About Tall Oaks Press
Tall Oaks Press makes short weekly worksheets for families who want their children to know the American story and the virtues that held it together.
Each week takes one true story and builds a few pages around it: a reading a child can manage alone, a person to meet, a quote that teaches something worth keeping, a real primary source, and a poem or passage to learn by heart. A parent key closes the week with the answers, some background, and a question for the dinner table.
Our name
Our name comes from an old schoolbook line: "Tall oaks from little acorns grow." It is the second half of a couplet by David Everett, printed in Caleb Bingham's The Columbian Orator (1797), a collection of speeches and verses for American children to learn and recite. Small lessons, learned a week at a time, put down deep roots.
How we build every week
Every quote, date, and number is checked against a primary or authoritative source, such as the National Archives, the Library of Congress, Founders Online, and the Avalon Project. Poems and documents appear in their original words. Reading passages are written and scored for the age they serve.
How families use it
Print the week at your child's level, hand it over, and let them read and work. Younger children read along with a parent. Then use the parent key to talk it through. The memory work grows a little each week, so by the end of the unit your child can recite the whole piece.