Your child will record the daily homework assignments and write about what happened during the school day. I require one complete sentence per activity and encourage the students to tell me if they thought something was difficult or easy for them. As the year progresses I hope to see more thought put into their writing as well as improvement on their penmanship. The program integrates literature, grammar, spelling and writing. We spend a week reading and discussing the story.
Students learn new vocabulary in addition to their weekly spelling words.
The Practice Book provides experiences that build skills in comprehension, vocabulary, contextual clues, point of view, study skills, inferences, etc. Please help students with this by asking them to read the directions for you and then asking them what the directions say. The Grammar Book provides practice in parts of speech, types of sentences, compound subjects and predicates, etc. When you are helping with this, ask the students to read the directions to you, break it down by steps, and have them tell you what they are to do. The Spelling Book clusters words with similar phonetic sounds and helps the students look for patterns, meanings, and utilize these with writing.