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| A REASON FOR WRITING! GOD MADE MY WORLD. A Beginner's Book for Manuscript Handwriting. A proven K-6 handwriting curriculum based entirely upon Scripture! Student worktexts for each grade including a comprehensive K-6 Teacher's Guidebook. The daily format is fun, flexible, and easy to use for both teacher & student. This curriculum zeroes in on daily practice - 10 to 15 minutes each day! Every weekly lesson is built around one carefully selected Scripture passage. Children discover the fun of sharing God's Word with others, when at the end of the week they write out their verse on a witnessing Border sheet and pass it along. Simple strokes used later in manuscript writing are taught. After mastering the strokes, students are introduced to the alphabet. |
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| A REASON FOR WRITING SERIES. A K-6 handwriting curriculum using Scripture and traditional manuscript and cursive approach. Scripture poster practice sheets. Concerned Communications. | |
| ANY CHILD CAN WRITE. Written by: Harvey S. Weiner. Written in a warm and engaging style by a renowned educational authority, this program shows parents how to set up an atmosphere that encourages creative written expression--preschool through high school (and beyond)--by building attitudes of aptitude that, coupled with a parent's guidance, create confidence in linguistic ability. Wiener's philosophy of writing and many suggested activities will give you the framework you need to nurture the creative process in your children. |
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| CHRISTIAN JOURNAL WRITING PRIMARY. Writing on a daily basis is an important way for children to process their thoughts, analyze their actions, and record their wishes. This title helps primary grade students get started on writing their own personal journal. | |
| COMPLETE WRITING LESSONS FOR THE PRIMARY GRADES. Written by: Marjorie Frank. A resource full of motivating writing lessons perfect for the homeschooler. Young writers will learn to collect and organize ideas, write rough drafts, criticize and revise written material, and share finished products. Designed with the busy teacher in mind, these lessons are ready for use. Reproducible. |
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| ENGLISH FOR THE THOUGHTFUL CHILD. By: Mary Hyde. This book was originally published in the early 1900's and revised by Cyndy Shearer (Greenleaf Press). Mrs. Shearer recommends it as a 2nd grade text, however, it seems appropriate for 1st and 3rd grade as well. |
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| FIRST GRADE ENGLISH SKILLS AND READING. Develops readers who can get meaning from print and writers who can communicate effectively. Exciting theme lessons combine phonics, reading, listening, comprehension, composition, grammar, spelling, and handwriting. Master Teacher's Manual Volume 1 (two books) contains 165 daily lesson plans correlating all English skills, except those involving the stories that are taught in the reading teacher's edition. Volume 2 includes correlated resource materials for art activities, motor skills, independent activities, and reproducible seatwork. Phonics and Vocabulary Worktext uses word families and clever vowel characters to teach clearly all the regular patterns of English phonics. Phonics and Vocabulary Worktext: 336 pages; softbound; colorful illustrations. Handwriting Worktext provides models and interesting handwriting activities using the Pre-Cursive handwriting style. Bob Jones University Press. |
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| GRAMMAR BOOKS; GRADE 1. First graders will get their first introduction to grammar as they study Biblical excerpts. Activities in this book will both strengthen grammar skills and teach children important lessons. Written by Frank Schaffer. |
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| IF YOU'RE TRYING TO TEACH YOUR KIDS HOW TO WRITE, YOU'VE GOTTA HAVE THIS BOOK (FOR ALL GRADES). Written by: Marjorie Frank. This all-time favorite is a how-to book for understanding and working with the whole writing process, an at-your-fingertips source of ideas for starting specific activities, and a manual for solving writing problems. |
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| INSTRUCTION GUIDEBOOK FOR K-6. Revised edition. Begins with general principles of handwriting. Special sections give specific information for teaching pre-manuscript, manuscript, transition, & cursive handwriting. Offers dozens of supplementary exercises, games, & ideas for sharing the Scripture Border sheets, complete vocabulary lists for the cursive worktexts, plus more. |
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| LANGUAGE 1. Designed for use during seatwork time, this write-in text provides one page per day to help your child increase thinking skills, improve their reading comprehension, and develop creative writing ability. By the end of the year, your first grader will be able to write in complete sentences; capitalize the first word of a sentence and of the days and months; place a period at the end of a sentence; know and use suffixes and prefixes; and alphabetize words. Lively reading comprehension and creative writing exercises appear throughout the book. A Beka Book. |
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| LANGUAGE ARTS FROM A TO Z. Written by Kay Milow. Language Arts from A to Z is a 35 week program which incorporates spelling, grammar, handwriting, reading and vocabulary with an explicit phonics approach. This means the children are taught the sounds of letters in isolation without any picture clues, word clues, or letter names. The program includes daily lesson plans and are tested each Friday. The program is arranged very economically and practically for homeschool moms. |
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| LEARNING LANGUAGE ARTS THROUGH LITERATURE SERIES. The Blue Book - First Grade Skills - The Common Sense Reading Program (Reading is More Than Phonics) Learning Language Arts through Literature presents a developmental, integrated approach to language arts learning from First Grade through High School. Based on Ruth Beechick's educational philosophies, Common Sense Press believes LLAL to be the most effective language arts instruction method on the market. |
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| MY FIRST DICTIONARY. Written by: Betty Root. A beginner's dictionary gives simple definitions of more than one thousand commonly used words and helps young readers develop vocabulary, spelling, and alphabetizing skills. Reading level: Ages 4-8. |
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| SPELLING AND POETRY 1. Contains 30 word lists. Activities for each list allow students to see the words in context, practice dictionary and syllabication skills, use the words in compositions and increase vocabulary by working with rhyming words, synonyms, homonyms and other word groups. Most of the words are arranged phonetically so students can recognize basic spelling patterns. Also includes 8 poems selected for variety from light and humorous to the touching and serious. Soft cover. A Beka Book. |
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| THE ITALIC HANDWRITING SERIES. Written by: Barbara Getty. A comprehensive, self-directed handwriting program for children and adults. Provides a clear, concise, step-by-step approach with opportunity for lots of practice. Plus, all materials are handwritten, providing constant modeling. Legible, logical, easy to write, and easy to teach. Even if you've never taught handwriting, you'll find this series easy to follow and full of guidance, tips and creative practice material Based on learning classic italic manuscript and then adding joins to make cursive (no new letters to learn for cursive). Getty/Dubay Continuing Education Press. |
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| WORDS OF PROMISE. Adventures in Handwriting From Psalms & Proverbs Introduces manuscript handwriting. Students master all lower case & capital letters, then move into lessons featuring simple Bible verses. 1st Grade. |
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| WRITING WITH PHONICS 1 (CURSIVE). Teaches proper formation, slant, and spacing of cursive letters. Daily practice in writing also reviews what the child is learning in phonics, beginning with single letters and progressing to blends, special sounds, and words. Creative writing is introduced second semester. A Beka Book. |
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| UNDERSTANDING WRITING. Written by Susan Bradrick. This Bible-based, Christ-centered English language and composition curriculum is for grades 1-12. Adaptable to single or multi-level tutoring. Teaches the mastery of the following basic elements of language & writing: Content, Style, and Mechanics. A fifty page "PET" tablet (P-lanning, E-valuation, and T-eaching) and a plastic line-guide template accompany each book. In addition, Understanding Writing also begins after a child has mastered reading and spelling vocabulary of fifty words or more; replaces yearly English texts; is non- disposable; contains daily lessons which are ready-to-use; consists of teaching units alternating with writing units; plus lots more. |
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