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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; INTERMEDIATE. This book divides journal writing into 12 themes--faith, loyalty, kindness, fairness, trust, and more--helping children integrate Christian values and journal writing into their everyday lives. A calendar for each month includes daily writing activities. | |
| 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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| CRITICAL THINKING ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE WRITING SKILLS ARGUMENTS A-1. Written by: Michael Baker. Four activity books helps teachers supplement their writing programs with easy-to-use critical thinking activities that emphasize real life communication skills. Students analyze a critical-thinking problem, produce a solution, and communicate their solution in writing to other students. Ideal for grades 4-12 and works well with younger gifted students and as a remediation tool for older ones. Students practice skills by analyzing short complex problems and writing solutions to them. |
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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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| GOD'S GIFT OF LANGUAGE A. God’s Gift of Language for grade 4 emphasizes usage and the writing process. Students are given extensive instruction in writing book reports, letters, and an encyclopedia report. There are also a number of creative writing exercises and an excellent section on using the dictionary and the encyclopedia. Traditional grammar training continues as students learn to recognize all eight parts of speech; identify simple and compound subjects and verbs; diagram subjects, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs; and learn simple rules for correct word usage and subject / verb agreement. A Beka Books. |
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| HANDWRITING, GRADE 4. Emphasizes refining of handwriting skills. Also guides students into maintaining good handwriting skills using ink pens. Teacher's Edition presents lessons centered on the theme "Sites of America." Teaches interesting and pertinent facts about the states while providing writing activities designed to motivate the young writer. Teacher's Edition: 160 pages; spiral binder. Student Worktext provides two pages of state flags designed to be cut and pasted to the unit page for each region of the U.S. Includes cursive models corresponding to the theme such as journals, descriptive paragraphs, outlines, and hymns. Student Worktext: 104 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 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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| PENMANSHIP MASTERY I. Worktext format give daily instruction and practice for penmanship excellence. Students practice correct formation, spacing, letter size, slant, and proportion, as well as overall neatness and good appearance. Text offers ideas for practicing difficult connections, creative writing activities, and weekly testing. Pages for journal writing are included. Soft cover. A Beka Book. |
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| SPELLING, GRADE 4. Features the difficult spelling patterns of the "schwa" sound. Includes word histories, a Bible word study, and more advanced dictionary skills. Includes the names of books of the Bible as nongeneralization words. Divided into units taught in a five-day sequence. Gives instruction in abbreviations of syllable rules. Includes information about all the books of the Bible. Teacher's Edition: 418 pages; loose-leaf in ring binder; answer overprints. Student Worktext presents lists of words that contain the "schwa" sound in a variety of positions. Provides enjoyable activities to write the words. Includes a themed dictionary section, a humorous word study, and a guided journal entry. Student Worktext: 216 pages; softbound. Bob Jones University Press. |
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| SPELLING, VOCABULARY, POETRY 4. Contains 35 word lists. Words relate to spelling rules, phonics keys, challenge words, and vocabulary words. Each list has several activities that reinforce spelling and vocabulary skills in an enjoyable way. Other features are "A Word to Live By" emphasizing a character trait with a Bible verse, dictionary tips, 6 poems for memorization, and a glossary. 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 OF LOVE. Adventures in Handwriting From Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Each of the following three worktexts (Words of Love, Words of Praise, & Words of Wisdom) have been listed with grade levels, but are completely interchangeable. Further practice of cursive handwriting skills. 4th Grade. (Paperback). |
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| WRITE SOURCE 2000. A school-wide handbook for Middle School students. The handbook stresses the fundamental principles of writing. Also includes the following: Basic Elements of Writing, Composing Paragraphs and Essays, Writing Reports, Speaking and Listening, Reading and Thinking Strategies, Improving Study and Test Skills, Working In Groups and more. Includes a glossary of computer terms, a copy of the Constitution, and a full-color map section. For grades 4-9. |
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| WRITERS EXPRESS: A WRITING AND LEARNING HANDBOOK FOR GRADES 4 AND 5. Written by: Dave Kemper, Ruth Nathan and Patrick Sebranek. Covers everything from the writing process to historical documents, from study skills to writing riddles, from speaking & listening to solving word problems. Covers 5 basic areas: The Writing Process, The Forms of Writing, Preparing To Learn, Proofreader's Guide, & Student Almanac. Gives you the very best information, is easy to use, comprehensive, helpful, colorful and compact. |
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| WRITING AND GRAMMAR 4. Reviews nouns, adjectives, verbs, and pronouns and teaches recognition of noun and adjective functions in sentences. Gives practice in expanding and combining sentences. Presents supporting a topic sentence and writing full paragraphs. Teacher's Edition contains 165 lesson plans that provide ideas for the preparation and presentation of subject matter. Includes lessons in usage and composition. Teacher's Edition: 454 pages; loose-leaf in ring binder. Student Worktext provides activities centered on the theme "Forests and Forest Products." Develops skills learned in each lesson. Student Worktext: 320 pages; softbound; color and black-and-white illustrations. Bob Jones University Press. |
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