I think I am clueless about LA

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  • July 5, 2015 at 5:04 pm
    HSMom03
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    I think we are doing Early American History for Primary Grades (Beautiful Feet Books)… finally… Anyway, I have no idea what I need for Language Arts for my 2nd grader.  I know the SCM guide says (1) oral narration (2) reading practice, and then I see (3) A Child’s Copybook Reader, Books 1-3 listed.  Is that resource mostly a variety of copywork?  It seems that BF history has a fair amount of copywork already (as well as poems, plus we will read additional poetry & do picture study), should I really ask him to do more copywork?  What exactly do I need for 2nd grade LA?  Is oral narration, reading practice, and BF history copywork enough?  We are doing an Apologia course for science, I don’t know if that includes any LA skills or not. Thanks, I really appreciate it.

    July 5, 2015 at 5:55 pm
    HollyS
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    All you need is reading practice, copywork and narration for 2nd grade.  I’d do at least 3 days of copywork each week (about 5-10 minutes each time).  If BF has that much, I wouldn’t add more.  The amount of copywork that can be completed in that amount of time can vary with each child.  Quality copywork is preferred over a large quantity of poor handwriting.

    Apologia includes narration prompts in the readings.  You can also have him narrate other readings like Bible, history, or literature.  Some moms choose to keep their literature readings for enjoyment only and skip narrations with those books.  I like to spend a minute before our readings to talk about what happened last time, which helps us remember where we left off in the story.  This is especially helpful when we’ve had several days between readings.

    July 5, 2015 at 6:02 pm
    andream
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    We are doing beautiful feet early American history also. We started last week. I have a newly turned seven year old doing this. He is doing oral narration of the BF reading, Copywork from BF history, reading aloud to me from pathway reader. The only other thing for L.A. I am doing for him is spelling you see, which isn’t necessary, but I felt he needed something to work on phonics, I have been noticing he is lacking in word attack skills. We will  ocassionally play games from happy phonics also.

    hope this helps.

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