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Help your student grow in language arts skills through great literature!
Using Language Well, Book 1, is designed to be a companion to Spelling Wisdom, Book 1, which contains wonderful excerpts from great literature, worthy poetry, beautiful Scripture, and powerful quotations. Now you can use those same great literary passages to teach English usage, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and composition! Pair Using Language Well, Book 1, with Spelling Wisdom, Book 1, to- Give your student a rich literary approach to language arts in grades 3 and 4.
- Help your student discover for himself key points of English usage, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and elements of good writing.
- Keep interest and attention high through short lessons just twice a week.
- Confidently guide and evaluate your student’s progress in composition with the helpful tips and practical tools in the Teacher Guide & Answer Key.
Book 1
Book 1 is designed to last for two years. When your student completes Using Language Well, Book 1 (with Spelling Wisdom, Book 1), he will be able to- identify each mark of punctuation in a sentence and explain why it is used there;
- alphabetize the months of the year;
- identify and define homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms;
- correctly spell irregular plural words;
- use a and an correctly;
- analyze contractions and compound words;
- detail prefixes, suffixes, and root words;
- identify types of sentences, syllables, and stanzas in a poem;
- and more! (See a complete list in the Placement Guide below.)
2 GradesSku: 9781616342746Using Language Well, Book 1, Student Guide
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Help your student grow in language arts skills through great literature!
The Using Language Well, Book 1, Teacher Guide & Answer Key provides clear answers to every question in the Using Language Well, Book 1, Student Book, but it also gives you so much more! You will find helpful and thorough explanations sprinkled throughout the lessons to encourage you in the Charlotte Mason way of doing language arts, plus a step-by-step plan to help your student grow in composition through his narrations. All the practical tools you need to evaluate his writing are included. The Teacher Guide & Answer Key will help you- Quickly confirm what your student learned in the Student Book through guided discovery and great literature.
- Keep on track with helpful teaching tips and practical reminders based on Charlotte Mason’s methods.
- Encourage your student to improve naturally in composition skills step by step.
- Evaluate your student’s narrations with confidence using the included rubrics and detailed instructions.
- Be assured your student is growing in language arts skills with Charlotte’s simple yet effective methods!
- Provides all of the answers to the lessons.
- Gives helpful and practical teaching tips to keep you on track.
- Walks you through the transition from transcription to prepared dictation as your student moves from third grade into fourth grade.
- Reminds you to have your fourth-grade student write one narration each week from his history, geography, Bible, or science reading.
- Supplies a set of 5 rubrics and detailed instructions to help you evaluate written narrations and track your student’s progress in capturing his thoughts on paper.
- Presents a complete list of English usage, capitalization, and punctuation points that are covered in Book 1.
2 GradesSku: 9781616342760Using Language Well, Book 1, Teacher Guide
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Help your student grow in language arts skills through great literature!
Using Language Well, Book 2, is designed to be a companion to Spelling Wisdom, Book 2, which contains wonderful excerpts from great literature, worthy poetry, beautiful Scripture, and powerful quotations. Now you can use those same great literary passages to teach English usage, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and composition! Pair Using Language Well, Book 2, with Spelling Wisdom, Book 2, to- Give your student a rich literary approach to language arts in grades 5 and 6.
- Help your student discover for himself the parts of speech, plus more key points of English usage, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and elements of good writing.
- Keep interest and attention high through short lessons just twice a week.
- Confidently guide and evaluate your student’s progress in composition with the helpful tips and practical tools in the Teacher Guide & Answer Key.
Book 2
Book 2 is designed to last for two years. When your student completes Using Language Well, Book 2 (with Spelling Wisdom, Book 2), he will be able to- define all of the parts of speech;
- parse a sentence, marking each word with its correct part of speech;
- identify verb tenses, personal pronouns, and antecedents;
- find simple subjects and predicates;
- use a dictionary effectively;
- continue to practice concepts from Book 1 on capitalization, punctuation, synonyms, homonyms, antonyms, alphabetizing; etc.
- and more! (See a complete list in the Placement Guide.)
2 GradesSku: 9781616343149Using Language Well, Book 2, Student Guide
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Help your student grow in language arts skills through great literature!
The Using Language Well, Book 2, Teacher Guide & Answer Key provides clear answers to every question in the Using Language Well, Book 2, Student Book, but it also gives you so much more! You will find helpful and thorough explanations sprinkled throughout the lessons to encourage you in the Charlotte Mason way of doing language arts, plus a step-by-step plan to help your student grow in composition through his narrations. All the practical tools you need to evaluate his writing are included. The Teacher Guide & Answer Key will help you- Quickly confirm what your student learned in the Student Book through guided discovery and great literature.
- Keep on track with helpful teaching tips and practical reminders based on Charlotte Mason’s methods.
- Encourage your student to improve naturally in composition skills step by step.
- Evaluate your student’s narrations with confidence using the included rubrics and detailed instructions.
- Be assured your student is growing in language arts skills with Charlotte’s simple yet effective methods!
- Provides all of the answers to the lessons.
- Gives helpful and practical teaching tips to keep you on track.
- Includes a Teacher Refresher Course in case it’s been a while since you reviewed the parts of speech.
- Details how to use prepared dictation for spelling lessons.
- Reminds you to have your student write one or two narrations each week from his history, geography, Bible, or science reading.
- Supplies a set of 5 rubrics and detailed instructions to help you evaluate written narrations and track your student’s progress in composition.
- Presents a complete list of English grammar points that are covered in Book 2, as well as the English grammar, usage, capitalization, and punctuation points that are reviewed from Book 1.
2 GradesSku: 9781616343163Using Language Well, Book 2, Teacher Guide
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Help your student grow in language arts skills through great literature!
Using Language Well, Book 3, is designed to be a companion to Spelling Wisdom, Book 3, which contains wonderful excerpts from great literature, worthy poetry, beautiful Scripture, and powerful quotations. Now you can use those same great literary passages to teach English grammar and sentence analysis, plus review English usage, punctuation, and capitalization! Pair Using Language Well, Book 3, with Spelling Wisdom, Book 3, to- Give your student a rich literary approach to language arts in grades 7 and 8.
- Teach your student how to analyze sentences with a simplified marking system, less complicated than diagramming.
- Guide your student to discover for himself key points of English usage, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and elements of good writing.
- Keep interest and attention high through short lessons just twice a week.
- Confidently guide and evaluate your student’s progress in composition with the helpful tips and practical tools in the Teacher Guide & Answer Key.
Book 3
Book 3 is designed to last for two years. When your student completes Using Language Well, Book 3 (with Spelling Wisdom, Book 3), he will be able to- parse a sentence, marking each word with its correct part of speech;
- analyze a sentence, marking subjects, predicates, direct objects, indirect objects, subject complements, and clauses;
- use commas correctly in a sentence as they relate to phrases and clauses;
- explain how prefixes and suffixes can change a word’s part of speech and meaning;
- identify and define metaphors, similes, and personifications;
- use a dictionary and a thesaurus;
- do more complex alphabetizing with book titles and people’s names
- analyze a poem’s end rhymes and eye rhymes, meter and rhyme schemes, plus identify a sonnet and iambic foot;
- and more! (See a complete list in the Placement Guide.)
2 GradesSku: 9781616344290Using Language Well, Book 3, Student Guide
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Help your student grow in language arts skills through great literature!
The Using Language Well Teacher Guide & Answer Key provides clear answers to every question in the Using Language Well Student Book, but it also gives you so much more! You will find helpful and thorough explanations sprinkled throughout the lessons to encourage you in the Charlotte Mason way of doing language arts, plus a step-by-step plan to help your student grow in composition through his narrations. All the practical tools you need to evaluate his writing are included. The Teacher Guide & Answer Key will help you- Quickly confirm what your student learned in the Student Book through guided discovery and great literature.
- Keep on track with helpful teaching tips and practical reminders based on Charlotte Mason’s methods.
- Encourage your student to improve naturally in composition skills step by step.
- Evaluate your student’s narrations with confidence using the included rubrics and detailed instructions.
- Be assured your student is growing in language arts skills with Charlotte’s simple yet effective methods!
- Provides all of the answers to the lessons, including the simplified marking for each sentence being analyzed.
- Gives helpful and practical teaching tips to keep you on track.
- Details how to use prepared dictation for spelling lessons.
- Reminds you to have your student write two or three narrations each week from his history, geography, Bible, or science reading.
- Supplies a set of 11 rubrics and detailed instructions to help you evaluate written narrations and track your student’s progress in composition.
- Presents a complete list of English grammar points that are covered in Book 3, as well as the English grammar, usage, capitalization, and punctuation points that are reviewed from previous books.
2 GradesSku: 9781616344313Using Language Well, Book 3, Teacher Guide
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Make geography come alive through the delightful combination of maps and living books! With Visits to Africa, you will explore geography through captivating photography, a traveler’s firsthand accounts, and step-by-step work with maps.Sku: 9781616342272
Visits to Africa
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Make geography come alive through the delightful combination of maps and living books!
With Visits to Asia, you will explore geography through captivating photography, a traveler’s firsthand accounts, and step-by-step work with maps. This Visits to Asia notebook serves as your guide to- see the big picture as you explore Asia.
- become familiar with the countries of the world and where they are located.
- get to know real families who live in those countries and see what their lives are like.
- look closely and carefully at the details of those families’ countries.
- create a personal map book.
Sku: 9781616342371Visits to Asia
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Make geography come alive through the delightful combination of maps and living books!
With Visits to Europe, you will explore geography through captivating photography, a traveler’s firsthand accounts, and step-by-step work with maps. This Visits to Europe notebook serves as your guide to- see the big picture as you explore Europe.
- become familiar with the countries of the world and where they are located.
- get to know real families who live in those countries and see what their lives are like.
- look closely and carefully at the details of those families’ countries.
- create a personal map book.
6 GradesSku: 9781616342319Visits to Europe
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Make geography come alive through the delightful combination of maps and living books!
With Visits to North America, you will explore geography through captivating photography, a traveler’s firsthand accounts, and step-by-step work with maps. This Visits to North America notebook serves as your guide to- see the big picture as you explore North America.
- become familiar with the countries of the world and where they are located.
- get to know real families who live in those countries and see what their lives are like.
- look closely and carefully at the details of those families’ countries.
- create a personal map book.
Sku: 9781616342357Visits to North America
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Make geography come alive through the delightful combination of maps and living books!
With Visits to South and Central America, Australia, you will explore geography through captivating photography, a traveler’s firsthand accounts, and step-by-step work with maps. This Visits to South and Central America, Australia notebook serves as your guide to- see the big picture as you explore South and Central America and Australia.
- become familiar with the countries of the world and where they are located.
- get to know real families who live in those countries and see what their lives are like.
- look closely and carefully at the details of those families’ countries.
- create a personal map book.
Sku: 9781616342333Visits to South & Central America, Australia
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Make geography come alive through the delightful combination of maps and living books!
With Visits to the Middle East, you will explore geography through captivating photography, a traveler’s firsthand accounts, and step-by-step work with maps. This Visits to the Middle East notebook serves as your guide to- see the big picture as you explore the Middle East.
- become familiar with the countries of the world and where they are located.
- get to know real families who live in those countries and see what their lives are like.
- look closely and carefully at the details of those families’ countries.
- create a personal map book.
Sku: 9781616342296Visits to the Middle East
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You own a store. You want a profit. You do the math!
Your Business Math Series is a fun and “living math” kit that reinforces math skills for ages 8–12! Your student uses math knowledge to keep his or her very own store running and, hopefully, make a profit. But there are also some surprises along the way!- Fun—Your child will run a book store that carries classic living books.
- “Living” Math—Learn to write checks, figure sales tax, pay bills, and keep a bank account ledger current, all while practicing basic skills like addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
- Easy to Use—Conversational step-by-step instructions that lead the student through various tasks for each business “month.” Additional Teaching Tips and answers in the FREE 56-page teacher book.
- Exciting—Unexpected surprises from Chance cards that students select at random!
- Flexible—Complete the kit in just a few weeks or use it all school year. You choose your own pace.
- Effective—Students don’t mind doing the math when they’re working on their very own store’s success in a fun game-like approach.
- Comprehensive—An additional practice section in case your student needs more help on any skill used in Your Business Math Series.
- Recommended—Listed as a suggested resource in the SCM Curriculum Guide.
4 GradesSku: 9781616340339Your Business Math: Book Store
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You own a store. You want a profit. You do the math!
Your Business Math Series is a fun and “living math” kit that reinforces math skills for ages 8–12! Your student uses math knowledge to keep his or her very own store running and, hopefully, make a profit. But there are also some surprises along the way!- Fun—Your child will run a book store that carries classic living books.
- “Living” Math—Learn to write checks, figure sales tax, pay bills, and keep a bank account ledger current, all while practicing basic skills like addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
- Easy to Use—Conversational step-by-step instructions that lead the student through various tasks for each business “month.” Additional Teaching Tips and answers in the FREE 56-page teacher book.
- Exciting—Unexpected surprises from Chance cards that students select at random!
- Flexible—Complete the kit in just a few weeks or use it all school year. You choose your own pace.
- Effective—Students don’t mind doing the math when they’re working on their very own store’s success in a fun game-like approach.
- Comprehensive—An additional practice section in case your student needs more help on any skill used in Your Business Math Series.
- Recommended—Listed as a suggested resource in the SCM Curriculum Guide.
4 GradesSku: 9781616340360Your Business Math: Pet Store
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You own a store. You want a profit. You do the math!
Your Business Math Series is a fun and “living math” kit that reinforces math skills for ages 8–12! Your student uses math knowledge to keep his or her very own store running and, hopefully, make a profit. But there are also some surprises along the way!- Fun—Your child will run a book store that carries classic living books.
- “Living” Math—Learn to write checks, figure sales tax, pay bills, and keep a bank account ledger current, all while practicing basic skills like addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
- Easy to Use—Conversational step-by-step instructions that lead the student through various tasks for each business “month.” Additional Teaching Tips and answers in the FREE 56-page teacher book.
- Exciting—Unexpected surprises from Chance cards that students select at random!
- Flexible—Complete the kit in just a few weeks or use it all school year. You choose your own pace.
- Effective—Students don’t mind doing the math when they’re working on their very own store’s success in a fun game-like approach.
- Comprehensive—An additional practice section in case your student needs more help on any skill used in Your Business Math Series.
- Recommended—Listed as a suggested resource in the SCM Curriculum Guide.
4 GradesSku: 9781616340384Your Business Math: Sports Store
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You can homeschool the Charlotte Mason way through high school!
Your Questions Answered: High School gives the practical help that you need to walk through the high school years with confidence. It offers you valuable wisdom from veteran Charlotte Mason home educators, detailed answers to more than 60 reader-submitted questions, and personal interviews with CM homeschool graduates.Sku: 9781616344658Your Questions Answered: High School
By: Sonya Shafer$38.95