Description
Placement Guide
Teacher Sample
This teacher guide provides answers and guidance as you lead your fourth-grade level student through the lessons in Using Language Well, Book 2. Inside you’ll find the complete passage used for each lesson, answers to the lesson questions, helpful teaching tips, and options for customizing spelling lessons to your student’s level.
A student should begin Using Language Well, Book 2 when he is comfortable with reading and handwriting at about a fourth-grade level.
Gentle Introduction to Grammar
Complex Alphabetizing • Antonyms • Synonyms • Homonyms • Compound Words • Dialogue Punctuation • Nouns • Verbs • Plural Possessives • Prefixes • Suffixes • Root Words
English
Your student will look closely for patterns and discover English usage and mechanics guidelines for himself, recording his findings in the English Points Journal in the back of the student book.
Topics covered include synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, dialogue punctuation, complex alphabetizing, suffixes, and more.
Writing
The writing component in Book 2 is conjoined with the narrations that are required in other school subjects, such as history, geography, Bible, and science.
As your fourth-grade level student begins to write some narrations, Book 2 will provide guidance to walk you and your student through that process. As your student learns English and grammar concepts in Using Language Well, he will be expected to apply that knowledge to his written narrations. Rubrics are included to help you hold your student accountable for what he has learned.
Grammar
Your student will be guided in a gentle introduction to subject and predicate, as well as to the concepts of verb and noun, setting the stage for the study of the parts of speech in Using Language Well, Book 3.
Spelling
Spelling words are drawn naturally from the literary passages featured in each lesson. Your student will be assigned a portion of each passage to study and then write as you dictate it to him.
About Using Language Well
Using Language Well gives your student Charlotte Mason language arts lessons in English, grammar, and spelling. Your student will grow in language arts skills as he studies passages from classic literature, Scripture, and great quotations.
About the 2nd Edition
Using Language Well, 2nd Edition builds on the award-winning first edition series. It also includes the spelling lessons with Spelling Wisdom directly in the student books.
The second edition provides additional teacher guidance for customizing the spelling portion of the lesson for each student. The English usage and grammar lessons now offer more review and a more even distribution of new concepts throughout the grade levels.
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