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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!

Using Language Well Teacher Guide & Answer Key, Book 2

• 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.

The Using Language Well Teacher Guide is nonconsumable and reusable.

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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.)