A few questions about Primary Language Lessons

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  • cristine
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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.

    Tanya
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    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.

    Kalle
    Participant

    There is a teachers guide that I found helpful. Both rainbow resources and amazon sell them.

    Alicia Hart
    Participant

    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!

     

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