Language Arts

This new series by Mary Ellen Tedrow, is just wonderful! Patriotic Penmanship features a traditional D'Nealian script, elegant and classic.  These consumable workbooks teach penmanship in such a logical manner.  Using famous quotes and Bible verses, your student is first introduced to an entire quote.  A portion of the quote is presented as copywork. Your student then copies words and phrases from the quote several times, and finally the entire sentence.

This new series by Mary Ellen Tedrow, is just wonderful! Patriotic Penmanship features a traditional D'Nealian script, elegant and classic.  These consumable workbooks teach penmanship in such a logical manner.  Using famous quotes and Bible verses, your student is first introduced to an entire quote.  A portion of the quote is presented as copywork. Your student then copies words and phrases from the quote several times, and finally the entire sentence. 

This is the third of a seven book series (K-6th grade) providing instruction in basic italic handwriting. Book C is designed for students in the second grade. 

This is one of the most logical, well-written, user-friendly high school level writing courses I have yet found. It is designed to gently and thoroughly develop your student's writing skills. Two things you need to know about Sharon Watson: she herself is an amazing writer, so her course is fun and interesting rather than textbookish; and she's incredibly encouraging. In fact her objectives for the course are two-fold: to gain in competence/skill AND to impact the student's attitude toward writing through encouragement and success.

This teacher's guide provides much more than just answers; it also includes an assignment checklist; objectives for the course; evaluation forms/rubrics; advice on grading, including extensive information on how to earn an "A, B, C," etc.; how to help students self-edit; guidelines; methods; monthly 14-minute "power surge" exercises; and other helpful teaching information. Answers are provided, and arranged by lesson and practice number. They're line-listed with the questions provided, and the answers in italics.

Write On: The Kid Friendly, Mother Pleasing, Gentle Way to Learn to Write - A writing manual that takes the drudgery out of learning to write.

Easy to use format. Contains book studies, spelling word lists and instructions, reviews and assessments.  Integrates all the language arts skills: Reading, spelling, grammar, higher-order reasoning skills and creative writing. Teacher notes are right in the margin. Based upon the teaching ideas of Dr. Ruth Beechick.  

All four levels of Writing With Ease workbook contain a complete teacher's guide...but perhaps you want additional help. You can get additional teacher's help in this book, Writing With Ease, Strong Fundamentals. This book contains teacher helps for all 4 levels of Writing With Ease. There are guidelines for approximately what a child should know at each level, how to individualize the program to your child, and additional script for you (the teacher) to help teach writing. There is also a troubleshooting section if your student is struggling. This one book will get you through all 4 years of Writing With Ease. 

Step-by-Step Grammar Volume II: Basic Usage was written to go along with Volume I: Basic Grammar. This second book teaches punctuation usage, subject-verb agreement, plurals, possessive forms and other sentence necessities. Help your child understand the rules for written English. Learn how to put a sentence together properly and punctuate it correctly.

Fifty classics are addressed with a short description of each title, objective and discussion questions (like a mini-quiz) for each book, a list of vocabulary words in their context (quoted right from the book your child is reading), important quotations, and more.  

First Language Lessons 4 uses classical techniques of memorization, dictation, and narration to develop your child's language ability in the important, foundational years of language study. The text covers a full range of grammar topics, including parts of speech, punctuation, sentence diagrams, and skills in beginning writing and storytelling. Optional end units provide practice in dictionary use a letter writing.

Beyond the Code Book 3 uses engagingly illustrated stories such as: Kids Need Pets, What’s the Fuss?, Day Care for Dogs, A Fish That Can Fly!, and Kate and the Ten-Speed Bike. Introductory exercises teach word families and vocabulary, while follow-up questions develop students’ understanding of the stories and encourage their reasoning abilities. Drawings accompany many of the new words to help students understand the vocabulary. After each story, students can complete illustrations by adding their own drawings.