A few questions about Primary Language Lessons

First of all, I would like to say that you should not feel pressured to do every lesson in the book.  When I used it, I picked the lessons I wanted and left the ones I didn’t.  I also did majority of the book orally (even when it says to have the students write sentences – I had them just do it out loud).  Make it your own – you know what lessons are most valuable for your kids.

For “Reproduction-Oral” – they want the student to give an oral narration after the passage has been read. 

“For Copying and Dictation” – they want the student to copy the passage, study it, and then you give it to them as a dictation exercise where you read it out loud slowly while they write down what you say.  They have to remember spelling and punctuation this way.

I usually did the oral narrations (book closed, tell me the story).  I usually did not do the copy and dictation.  We usually read the passage and the kids would do an oral narration, or maybe I would let them copy a portion of it (especially if it was a poem – maybe they would use one stanza for copywork).  When we used the book, we were not at the dictation stage yet and I had no desire to jump in and do it.

Hope that is somewhat helpful.

cristine-

We used PLL for a few years before my oldest kids were able to do dictation so we skipped that part.   We ejoyed the books a lot.

I did not have the teacher’s guide until later and I agree with Kalle in that I wish I had it at the start.  It was very helpful.   There is also a website that has some additional activities (as does the guide from what I remember).  http://www.primarylanguagelessons.com  For extra resources, just click on the “Resource List” button on the top bar  HTH!