Spelling - 15 minutes
Grammar - 20 minutes
Reading - 30m 4th grade and above reading level books; 40-60m books below reading level
Writing - 10 minutes
We will keep a binder for LA with a section for each of the four components. I've outlined some things I wanted to remember for this year with each subject:
Spelling - test spelling lists weekly and keep a list of trouble words and trouble rules; Katie copies rules she has trouble with and reads them out loud; two times a week review trouble words and trouble rules.
Grammar - write down Katie's narrations and read it back to her; towards the middle of the school year she should be writing the first sentence down by herself; Memorize 12 pieces.
Reading - oral reading for fluency once a week with McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader; two times per week Katie is to give me two to four sentences about the plot of the book she is reading for her challenging reading; no narrations on fun books; only filing her imaginative reading in this notebook - stories, myths, fairy tales, poems and novels; factual books and biography reading goes in history notebook.
We still review phonics from the OPGTR to make sure Katie grasped all the phonics rules and we will continue to review them occasionally.
Writing - practices cursive daily for 5 minutes; dictation daily using WWE 2; once a month writes penpals
With writing, it is not only a skill but a content area. We are laying the foundation that makes a good writer, that is why I don't have my daughter doing creative writing until the logic stage. I like how Susan Wise Bauer puts it "The creative writing is a natural gift; the ability to think through information, organize it, and put it down on paper needs to be taught." Our writing program consists of:
- Narration - in literature, history and science
- Copywork
- Dictation
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