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A few questions about Primary Language Lessons
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I just picked up Emma Serl’s Primary Language Lessons for my children. I am excited to get started using it, even now, late in our school year. I do have a few questions about how to implement certain concepts. If you will indulge me. Lesson 10 is REPRODUCTION-ORAL. There is a small descriptive paragraph. What do I have the students do for that lesson? Lesson 15 states FOR COPYING AND DICTATION Again, what do I have the students do? So as not to burden this group, is there anyone in this group who would be willing to help me off and on, as I work through this sweet book with my children.
Thank you and blessings.
TanyaParticipantFirst 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.
KalleParticipantThere is a teachers guide that I found helpful. Both rainbow resources and amazon sell them.
Alicia HartParticipantcristine-
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!
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