Language Lessons for a Living Education
Featuring:
- A Charlotte Mason flavored approach to elementary language arts
- Convenient daily schedule — saving you lesson prep time
- Short, engaging 20-30 minute lessons
- Story-based approach with character-building themes
- Slowly build handwriting stamina for younger students
- Instructional blend of stories, copywork, oral narration and hands-on experience to bring concepts to life
- 6 levels targeted for 1st - 6th grade
WHAT LEVEL SHOULD MY CHILD START WITH?
- Move beyond simple phonics to a gentle course that introduces important basics in grammar
- Make vital connections between endearing images they see and the words they learn
- Begin to learn how to communicate with age-appropriate vocabulary words and simple sentences
- Independent reading books and learning to master writing letters and small words are core to the course
- Start forming basic sentences
- Develop early reading and narration skills
- Work towards the mastery of reading and grammar, as well as the mechanics of communication and writing
- Start creating stories through pictures and sentences, poems, psalms and letters
- Review and refine lessons from Level 2
- Add to their reading, communication and observation skills
- Practice reading and narration, increase their vocabulary and apply grammatical skills
- Learn paragraph structure, compound words, contractions, sentence combining, helping verbs, prepositions and more!
- Review and refine lessons from Level 3
- Build on and reinforce essential communication skills as they achieve proficiency in grammar, vocabulary, spelling and reading comprehension
- Learn about noun types, verb tenses, mechanics and compositions
- Work towards independent reading and mastery of effective sentences and paragraphs
- Review and refine lessons from Level 4
- Take the rules and best practices, and make them their own through skilled use
- Start to learn the nuances of communication, organization and techniques to be more effective in sharing their thoughts through the written word
- Develop skills in using the dictionary and a thesaurus for independent spelling and vocabulary building
- Review and refine lessons from Level 5
- Focus on the essentials of written communication
- Master and apply their skills to grammar, spelling, reading comprehension, and vocabulary
- Review and integrate the eight parts of speech
