Activities for summarizing can be engaging and fun for your kiddos, while still making sure they can apply the skill confidently!
These memories will be your treasure and your pain. So incredibly priceless and beyond value because of their rarity... because they are gone forever.
Judy Cox answers a few questions about her book My Family Plays Music, the November 2020 book selection for the music and reading subscription box for kids, Music Library.
The words we use to talk about writing and revision matter. Some things to consider from Heinemann Authors, Chris Hall and Mike Anderson.
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure statement for more information. It never fails to amaze me how effective simple things can be when it comes to homeschooling. Copywork--probably the most basic of concepts you could possible conceive of--can cover everything from spelling to handwriting to grammar to punctuation and composition. Dictation and French dictation--also very simple as in concept--reinforce all of these. Put them together, throw in some beautiful children's literature instead of random and disconnected workbook passages, add in opportunities for narrations and big juicy conversations, sprinkle in investigations of different literary elements, and maybe a movie night or themed party to cap it off, and you've got a recipe for language arts success in your homeschool. The best part is that it's so easy. You don't have to wade through five different workbooks, trying to coordinate handwriting lessons with spelling lists with different grammar programs. You don't have to coax and urge your children through endless drills or worksheets. You don't have to diagram sentences (unless you want to...) It's all there in a simple collection of passages from books you read together. Brave Writer's Quiver of Arrows (recommended for grades 1 and
