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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 MIDDLE GRADES. Written by: Marjorie Frank. Homeschoolers will make writing exciting with this collection of high-interest writing challenges. From producing advertisements and news articles to creating stories and poetry, this book will encourage students to develop their communication skills and discover their creativity by tackling a diverse array of writing assignments. |
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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 3. Grammar skills taught in this volume include nouns, verbs, adjectives, sentence structure, pronouns, and more. Students will strengthen grammar skills as they learn lessons from the Bible. Written by Frank Schaffer. |
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| HANDWRITING, GRADE 3. Provides practice and motivation for continued excellence in handwriting. Teaches details about punctuation, margins, and spacing. Teacher's Edition contains daily lesson plans that carry out the theme "Journeys." Emphasizes paper position, pencil hold, and posture, which help the student build natural, fluent handwriting. Teacher's Edition: 168 pages; spiral binder. Student Worktext includes activities that help maintain good handwriting skills. Provides cursive models and a variety of practice activities including time lines, diaries, logs, and maps. 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 3. This write-in text provides an excellent and abundant variety of practice exercises for your third grader as he begins the formal study of English as an academic subject. Students will benefit from solid skills instruction that will develop their ability to think and to express their thoughts correctly in both spoken and written English. Capitalization; punctuation; correct sentences; proper word usage; using synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms; and recognizing nouns and verbs are emphasized. Dictionary skills, journal entries, and creative writing skills are also developed. 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, GRADE 3. Applies more generalizations to word families and provides extensive practice in adding suffixes. Expands dictionary skills with weekly practice and continues a guided journal entry and a Bible-word study. Teacher's Edition provides inductive questions to ask when introducing the spelling patterns. Divided into units taught in a five-day sequence. Includes helpful instruction in presenting common syllable divisions and guiding student journal writing. Teacher's Edition: 410 pages; loose-leaf in ring binder; answer overprints. Student Worktext presents words arranged in same-sound, different-spelling groups for visual 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 AND POETRY 3. Contains 34 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. Uses both phonetic and content words. Vocabulary study increases as students mature. Also includes 9 poems selected for variety from light and humorous to the touching and serious. Teacher edition available. Soft cover. A Beka Book. |
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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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| 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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| WORDS TO LIVE BY. Adventures in Handwriting From the New Testament Epistles Transition review & practice pages at the beginning of the workbook. When cursive letters are mastered, student moves into a full year of weekly cursive lessons. 3rd Grade. (Paperback). |
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| WRITING AND GRAMMAR 3. Strengthens understanding of nouns, verbs, and adjectives and introduces pronouns. Presents antonyms and reviews synonyms, homonyms, and commonly misused verbs. Introduces paragraph development. Teacher's Edition contains 135 lesson plans that provide ideas for the preparation and presentation of subject matter. Includes lessons in usage and composition. Teacher's Edition: 376 pages; loose-leaf in ring binder. Student Worktext provides activities centered on a farm theme. Develops skills learned in each lesson. Student Worktext: 238 pages; softbound; color and black-and-white illustrations. Bob Jones University Press. |
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| WRITING WITH PHONICS 3. CURSIVE WRITING SKILLBOOK. Cursive Writing Skillbook offers a variety of fascinating exercises for instruction in and practice of the penmanship skills. Includes a review of letter formation with emphasis on correct slant, spacing, and proportion. Activities include phonics review, dictionary skills, and creative writing. An exciting feature is the nature study. Students use the Animal Dictionary in the book to answer questions and write brief reports about selected animals. A Beka Book. |
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