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Description
A long-time favorite for refining and overviewing skills, this language-focused workbook series includes several visual-appealing updates: easy-to-read text, a clean layout with just-enough graphics, and kaleidoscope-colored borders. Chapters explain each skill taught, provide a checklist, definitions, tips, and enrichment ideas. Check your student’s skills using periodic learning checkpoints, chapter reviews, and a final test. Sentences and short reading passages are child-friendly, with content (particularly from Grade 4 up) pulled from multiple subjects that represent our multi-cultural history and population, holidays, etc., but is religiously neutral. See individual descriptions for content highlights.
Each grade level divides skills into 6 chapters, each one beginning with a teacher’s overview of skills, a checklist of key skills, and helpful definitions. Each lesson starts with a brief instruction/overview and finishes with a short student exercise. Levels progress systematically, starting with introductory skills in K and finishing with more nuanced skills such as verb moods, stylistic devices like voice, figures of speech, and word roots by Grade 8. Grade K begins with letter recognition, capitalization, and punctuation. Then it progresses to parts of speech and usage/vocabulary (skills which continue in grades 1-3). Grade 1 begins parts of speech studies. Starting with Grade 4, students annually work on parts of speech, sentence structure, language/vocabulary, and capitalization/punctuation. For books in grades 3-5, a handful of short videos supplement instruction via QR codes. These are 2–3-minute video explanations of grammatical concepts on YouTube®. Answers to lessons, reviews, and tests included. Not reproducible. Includes 192 perforated pages, pb. ~ Ruth
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Teaching Method
Traditional
Teacher-centered curriculum commonly used in classrooms that may include a text, teacher manual, tests, etc.
Charlotte Mason
A methodology based on the work of a 19th century educator who maintained that children learn best from literature (Living Books), not textbooks.
Classical
A methodology based on the Latin Trivium (three stages of learning), including the grammar stage (memorization and facts), logic stage (critical thinking), and rhetoric stage (developing/defending ideas).
Unit Study
A thematic or topical approach centered around one topic that integrates multiple subject areas.
Montessori (Discovery)
A methodology based on the work of a 20th century educator that emphasizes student and sensory-driven discovery learning and real-life applications.
Other
Other methodologies
Religious Content
Secular
Contains content contrary to common Christian beliefs (i.e. evolution).
Neutral
Avoids religious or theoretical topics or presents multiple viewpoints without preference.
Christian/Religious
Faith-based or including instructional religious content.
Learning Modality
Auditory
Learns through listening, talking out loud or reading out loud.
Visual
Learns through seeing, prefers written instructions and visual materials.
Kinesthetic/Tactile (Hands-On)
Learns through moving, doing and touching.
Multi-Sensory
Curriculum that employ a variety of activities/components.
Presentation
Sequential
Curriculum progresses through well-defined learning objectives. Emphasizes mastery before moving to the next topic.
Spiral
Topics and concepts are repeated from level to level, adding more depth at each pass and connecting with review.
Conceptual/Topical
Focus is on the “why,” often with a unifying concept as well as specific skills; coverage may be broader.
Teacher Involvement
Low Teacher Involvement
Student-led materials; parent acts as a facilitator.
Medium Teacher Involvement
A mix of teacher-led time and independent student work.
High Teacher Involvement
Teacher-led lessons; may utilize discussions, hands-on activities and working together.
Additional Materials Required
No other materials needed
Everything you need is included.
Other Materials Required
There are additional required resources that are a separate purchase.
Other Materials Optional
There are additional resources mentioned or recommended but are not absolutely necessary.
Consumable
Consumable
Designed to be written in; not reusable.
Non-Consumable
Not designed to be written in; reusable.