Primary Language Lessons

I used it for 2nd and 3rd w/my son.  Loved it!!! Very CM and didn’t take a lot of time…got to the point.  Blessings, Gina

We are on lesson 4. My son (gr 3) is feeling very positive so far. Particularly loves that the program has a few picture narrations! A good amount of variety from lesson to lesson and most are short. Some are oral and very short. Others involve more writing and take more time. One thing I found interesting is that the book is recommended for grade 2 and up and yet does ask for dictation — right from Lesson 2. Granted the dictation is short, but I was surprised to see it so early. I knew my son wasn’t ready for it yet, so we skipped it and just treated that lesson as copywork.

Good luck!

Andi

We love it. We’re on our fourth go-round now, and it’s worked well for students with very different learning styles. I’ve adjusted the lessons, particularly at first, where it seems like a ton of writing for a young boy. Sometimes we’ve used the lengthy early dictation lessons as copywork; some of the lengthy copywork exercises, we’ve used only part of, or broken into several days’ work. Littlest, almost 9, has been using it for two years now and still looks forward to pulling it out each day.

Here’s another one for love it!  We started it in 1st grade, and we moved pretty slowly through it (on purpose) but we really loved it.  For dictation, I had him do it as copywork instead.  And if I didn’t really care for a poem for whatever reason ( I think there were two I replaced – don’t remember why), I picked a Psalm of about equal size for him to memorize instead.  Never used the teacher’s guide with it.  Wasn’t really a need for it.

I used the Teacher’s Guide more for ILL than PLL, but it still came in useful; I’d buy it again. Many of the lessons in both pre-suppose knowledge that I didn’t have, esp. since it was an older book.

I didn’t know certain names of certain art pieces and the info. was helpful with those; the art observation lessons I didn’t skip, they are important for oral narration and organizing thoughts.

I also did not have them memorize the poems, but they did read them aloud, answer any questions and I read the info. about them from the TG.

I used the hardback version of PLL, not the Living Books Curriculum version.

Btw where can I go to see samples of both teacher guides?

I did happen to find a sample of teacher guide on the lost classics site for PLL, it does give quite a bit of detail on certain works of art in the book.  The free versions I found don’t have that.