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 First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind :: 0971412928
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| Parents can assure their child's success in language arts with this simple-to-use, scripted guide. First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind uses picture study and other classical techniques to develop the child's language study in those first two all-important years of school. Each lesson leads the parent, step-by-step, through the simple oral and written projects that build reading, writing, spelling, storytelling, and comprehension skills. Use this book to supplement school learning, or as the center of a home-school language arts course. Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
I haven't even read the whole book and I'm already amazed at how a book that teaches language arts can have so many typos!!! I was browsing this book online, using the "surprise me" feature and on the first page I looked at (Lesson 90, pg 155) it says "After spring come summer". Ok, omitting an s could happen to anyone. But just a couple sentences later it says "The summer months are June, July, and September". Umm, what happened to August? I don't think I will purchase a book like this to teach language.
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Author: Guest
My 6 & 4 year old homeschooled children barely even know we have started school time each morning. They enjoy our grammer lesson over breakfast - 1 lesson per day from the book. I guess we could do more as they do not take long, but I like to give my kids the chance to think about the things we have discussed. I also think the repitition another day is benificial too. If my children have memorized the definition or poem well, we tend not to repeat it 3 times that day. I read a previous reviwers comments about how boring it was to study nouns for so many lessons, but that comment was made before this parent had actually completed these lessons. In actual fact within these lessons your child will learn many other things: Family relationships, days of the week, months, seasons, which months are in each season, several poems will be memorized, some oral usage, rules for capitalization, they will be encouraged to speak in proper sentences, they will learn to write their address, you will read stories, narrate pictures, and if your child is like mine he/she will retain it all. We are currently at lesson 123 and I wish Jessie Wise had a follow up volume for when we reach 200. I would buy it.
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Author: Guest
This is a very simple text for 1st/2nd graders! Wish I had purchased it last yr! My daughter is in 2nd grade and we do a lesson a day! I think the repetitive text is excellent for 1st graders and keeping it to 1-2 lessons a day depending on the repetitiveness has not been adverse for her as a 2nd grader! The focus on the rules is what is necessary and obvious!
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Author: Guest
This book is such a delight to use because it prompts you in what to say and what you want from your child as well as covering the subjects in a systematic manner. It doesn't jump around and it is easy to use and understand. My child enjoys it and is really learning. I wholeheartedly give it a thumbs up.
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Author: Guest
My 5-year-old daughter took to _First Language Lessons_, a grammar book for 1st-2nd grade, right away and with great enthusiasm. The format is one that has worked for us in other subjects (similar to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons and Saxon Math), and she enjoyed learning about nouns. By the fourth or fifth lesson, she could easily recite the definition of a noun. So when I opened the book for lesson 11, I figured we'd be about due for something new. I said as I opened the book, "Let's see what we'll learn today."
Nouns.
"MORE nouns?" my daughter opined.
"More nouns," I said, disbelieving. "Let me look and see when we'll start working on something new."
So I flipped ahead . . . to lesson 50, where pronouns are introduced.
There are FORTY-NINE consecutive lessons on NOUNS?
The author of this book seems to have mastered the idea of =review=, but failed miserably at the idea of regularly introducing something new to keep the student's interest, while still reviewing prior material (as is done in Teach Your Child to Read and Saxon Math). FORTY-NINE consecutive lessons on nouns? My daughter will HATE grammar well before we make it that far, if I don't give her something new to work on!
As an author myself, I know how critical it is that a book not only cover the requisite material, but =organize= it effectively, and that is where First Language Lessons fails. The material is covered, and it is presented in an appropriate manner -- one that could be very effective -- but it is not organized in a way that will maintain the child's interest while reinforcing learned concepts. This is a shame. I would love to see a new edition of this book, reorganized in a more effective way.
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