Description
Placement Guide
Student Sample
In this Charlotte Mason language arts course, your eighth-grade level student will be guided to discover English usage and practice spelling through dictation exercises. Short lessons take about 15–20 minutes, with your student completing the questions independently and the parent guiding the spelling component.
A student should begin Using Language Well, Book 6 when he is comfortable with reading and handwriting at about an eighth-grade level.
Sentence Analysis, Part 2
Appositives • Infinitives • Gerunds • Participles • Dependent and Independent Clauses • Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences • Comma Guidelines • Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses and Phrases • Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions
Grammar
Your student will use what he has learned about the parts of speech in Book 5 as he analyzes sentences and explores more deeply how the parts of a sentence work together. He will learn about participles, gerunds, and infinitives as part of the process and continue simple poetry analysis.
English
Many English points from previous Using Language Well books are reviewed in Book 6. New English points are introduced using a guided-discovery approach, encouraging your student to look closely for patterns and discover English usage and punctuation guidelines for himself. Special emphasis is given to comma usage.
Writing
The writing component in Book 6 is conjoined with the narrations that are required in other school subjects, such as history, geography, Bible, and science. 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.
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.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.