Curriculum for Language Arts

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  • February 2, 2013 at 4:29 am
    missceegee
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    Yes, I think it CAN be covered without curriculum. However, I have discovered that I WANT something to guide us a bit. I do not trust that I won’t leave a ridiculous hole with one of my four kids. I am looking to use a curriculum for my dd12 and maybe even somewhat with ds9 in the coming year. I have discovered that I will do better at tweaking something to work for us rather than trusting that I will catch all of those various skills and teach them on my own. I know from experience that I will not.

    Do what works for you. If you would like more guidance, even having a list of skills to refer to might help.

    February 2, 2013 at 1:42 pm
    erin.kate
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    You can continue with CM’m beloved methods of copywork, dictation, oral and written narrration, living and excellent literature, poetry, Shakespeare, Plutarch, etc … all of that goes without saying.

    A grammar program that might interest you is KISS. Every child starts at Level 1, but you choose their grade workbook. So level 1, grade 3 or level 1, grade 6. The grade determines not the grammar content but the literature in which the grammar is taught. So, a young student may be learning prepositions from Old Mother West Wind while your 5th grader is learning them from Tennyson. There are 4 (ish) levels (I think level three has more than one part).

    KISS can be done in just a few minutes a day, maybe 10, and it’s a nice complement to the lovelies of CM’s approach.

    I’m planning on KISS 3rd-6th and OMT as a review in high school. Thankfully, grammar is a finite subject so it does not need to be “taught” every year K-12.

    This might help another poster here, I can’t remember her name, who wanted something to use with multiple children so everyone is using similar material, but at their respective levels.

    Grammarland is another option for learning the parts of speech in a story form in maybe 4th, 5th, or 6th grade.

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