In this audio lesson you’ll learn what copywork is, why it’s so effective, and how to conduct a lesson. Copywork Lesson Steps
Before children can begin copywork they need to know how to write their letters. Over the years I’ve figured out a good method and resources for teaching handwriting. In this ...
Dictation lessons are the next level of copywork, and is like an all-in-one language arts curriculum. But in this case its a method, not a curriculum. It teaches spelling and ...
Narration is the act of telling back what you learned, or what you remember. And in the act of verbalizing what you learned you solidify that knowledge in your mind. ...
In this video lesson I show you what a family-style writing lesson looks like. Specifically, we are doing a sentence imitation exercise based on the method by Jeff Anderson. Charlotte ...
“Naturally; for though many of our English words are each a law unto itself, others offer a key to a whole group, as arrow gives us sp-arrow, m-arrow, h-arrow; but ...
“The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading. Knowledge is conveyed to them by lessons ...
“Lessons in word making help him to take intelligent interest in words; but his progress in the art of reading depends chiefly on the reading at sight lessons.” (pg 204) ...
“The first exercises in the making of words will be just as pleasant to the child. Exercises treated as a game, which yet teach the powers of the letters, will ...
“… if the alphabet be taught to the little student, his appreciation of both form and sound will be cultivated. When should he begin? Whenever his box of letters begins ...