Using Language Well, Book 2, Student 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.)