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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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| CURSIVE CONNECTIONS. By: Kathryn Libby. This cursive workbook uniquely emphasizes letter connections, rather than the letters in isolation. This workbook briefly introduces the letter, and then pairs it with previously learned letters, beginning with the vowels. Practice becomes increasingly complex, progressing into the usage of the letter in words, phrases, and finally sentences. The result is fluent, quality cursive. |
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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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| GRAMMER BOOKS; GRADE 2. The activities in this book will both strengthen grammar skills and teach children important lessons through Biblical stories. Written by Frank Schaffer. |
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| HANDWRITING, GRADE 2. Reviews the PreCursive letters and then makes an easy transition to cursive writing by adding a cursive stroke to the letters the student has been writing since kindergarten. Teacher's Edition contains daily lesson plans centered on the theme "Time." Introduces the puppet character Timothy Time who helps present letter formation and various activities. Teacher's Edition: 168 pages; spiral binder. Student Worktext provides a variety of activities that follow the theme introduced in the teacher's edition. Presents good cursive models that include Scripture, poetry, recipes, and thank-you notes. Student Worktext: 96 pages; softbound; color and black-and-white illustrations. Bob Jones University Press. |
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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 2. Mr. Floppy Fish guides second graders through this colorful write-in text. Concepts learned in first grade are reinforced as students go on to master the following areas: recognizing and correctly punctuating three kinds of sentences; working with compound words, rhyming words, antonyms, synonyms, contractions, and singular possessive words; forming plurals; and using words correctly. By the end of the year, your child’s reading comprehension skills will be sharpened, and he will write more clearly, correctly, and concisely. 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 2. Contains 32 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. Introduces vocabulary study. Also includes 7 poems selected for variety from light and humorous to the touching and serious. Soft cover. A Beka Book. |
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| SPELLING, GRADE 2. Reinforces the most reliable spelling patterns and introduces the most common structural generalizations. Teaches fundamental dictionary skills and provides systematic composition experience and a Bible word study. Teacher's Edition provides inductive questions for teaching spelling patterns. Divided into units taught in a five-day sequence. Includes instructions for dictionary skills, guided journal writing, and good study methods. Teacher's Edition: 400 pages; loose-leaf in ring binder; answer overprints. Student Worktext presents words arranged in same-sound, same-spelling groups for auditory memory. Provides enjoyable activities that enable the student to write each word at least once. Student Worktext: 216 pages; softbound. Bob Jones University Press. |
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| SPELLING; GRADE 2. This series teaches virtues such as honesty, obeying God, being a good neighbor, and showing kindness, while helping children connect spelling and handwriting skills to their own life. Written by Frank Schaffer. |
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| SPENCERIAN PENMANSHIP. Written by: P. R. Spencer. This 6 volume set was developed in the 1860's. These little books teach children how to write neatly and clearly. Each of the 5 copybooks has sheets with guidelines and examples. Students repeat the examples within the lines. Book on theory is for the teacher/parent. Covers grades 2 through 8. |
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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 JESUS. Adventures in Handwriting From Matthew, Mark Luke & John Begins the transition from manuscript to cursive at the beginning of the second semester. The timing is entirely up to the teacher and the readiness of the student. 2nd Grade (Paperback). |
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| WRITING AND GRAMMAR 2. Teaches nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Introduces the steps of the writing process. Includes lessons in specific types of writing such as giving instructions and describing an object, a character, and a place. Teacher's Edition contains 141 lesson plans that provide ideas for the preparation and presentation of subject matter. Includes lessons in usage and composition. Teacher's Edition: 400 pages; loose-leaf in ring binder. Student Worktext uses the theme of missionary service to emphasize the value of speaking and writing. Includes activities to develop skills learned in each lesson. Student Worktext: 232 pages; softbound; color and black and white illustrations. Bob Jones University Press. |
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| WRITING WITH PHONICS 2 (CURSIVE). Includes review of letter formation for three-space and one-space cursive writing. Children learn to reduce letters to 3 /4 -space cursive writing. Second semester they keep a journal, learn to make daily entries, and complete several creative writings. 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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