Language Lessons for a Living Education 5
Students will build on and reinforce essential communication skills as they achieve proficiency in grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension, spelling, and written communication. Independent reading and mastery of effective sentences and paragraphs are at the heart of this course.
Students will enjoy poem, hymn, and picture studies as well as faith-growing stories to inspire detailed and descriptive paragraphs while making real-world connections that enhance this fun and engaging story-based approach. Written with a Charlotte Mason influence but designed for modern homeschoolers, activities include book reports, Scripture, creating a dictionary, narration, and critical thinking games to hone and apply their writing and reading skills creatively.
Scope and sequence, daily course calendar, assessment charts, recommended reading list, spelling practice ideas, and grammar sheets also included!
Required Reading:
Teaching Aids
- Language Arts - Where Should my Child Start?
- Language Lessons 5 - Dictionary
- Language Lessons 5 - Word Shapes
A Look Inside
Language Lessons for a Living Education 5 is a Charlotte Mason–flavored approach to elementary language arts. Enjoy a fun and effective language arts program for your elementary student. Students move beyond pages of text and memorization to make real-world connections. This exciting new series will help guide your young learner toward mastery of reading, grammar, and vocabulary, as well as the mechanics of communication and writing. Utilizing observation and reading comprehension through poems, stories, and real books as the foundation, your student will continue to build paragraph writing skills.
The course is a story-based approach, using Charlotte Mason ideas for the modern homeschool student with character-building themes. Each quarter has five stories, two picture studies (one of which is biblically-based), and two poems (one of which is a proverb). Using the spelling words and the Dictionary Worksheets, the student will create their very own dictionary as they move week by week through the material. This course incorporates picture study, memorization, grammar and punctuation, spelling and vocabulary, observation, and application through creating their own stories through pictures, sentences, paragraphs, poems, proverbs, and letters. This course also develops reading and narration skills. Writing stamina is built up gradually. By the end of the course, students should be able to comfortably write various types of paragraphs.
- Using This Course
- Daily Schedule
- Lesson 1: Story, Analogy, Nouns, Sentences, Reading, Easy Rules Words
- Lesson 2: Picture Study, Descriptive Writing, Possessive Nouns, Sentences: Subject and Predicate, Reading, Easy Rules Words
- Lesson 3: Story, Map Study, Pronouns, Interjections and Conjunctions, Reading, Easy Rules Words
- Lesson 4: Poem, ABAB Poem Pattern, Verbs, Compound Subjects and Predicates, Reading, Syllable Words
- Lesson 5: Story, Sequencing, Verbs, Sentence Clauses and Conjunctions, Reading, Syllable Words
- Lesson 6: Picture Study, Descriptive Writing, Linking Verbs, Compound Sentences, Reading, Syllable Words
- Lesson 7: Story, Picture Observation, Verb Phrases, Commas, Reading, Syllable Words
- Lesson 8: Proverbs, Couplets, Verb Tense, Quotation Marks, Titles, Reading, Stressed Syllable Words
- Lesson 9: Story, Rhyming-ABAB, 1st Quarter Review, Parts of a Story, 1st Quarter Spelling Review
- Lesson 10: Story, Map Study, Verb Agreement; Collective Nouns, Dictionary Skills, Book Report, Silent-e Words
- Lesson 11: Picture Study, Descriptive Writing, Linking Verb Agreement, Contractions, Reading, Silent-e Words
- Lesson 12: Story, Acronyms, Verb Usage, Abbreviations, Reading, Vowel Words
- Lesson 13: Poem, ABAB Pattern Poems, Verb Usage, Abbreviations, Reading, i Before e Words
- Lesson 14: Story, Story Writing, Verb Usage, Synonyms, Antonyms, Thesaurus, Reading, i Before e Words
- Lesson 15: Picture Study, Descriptive Writing, Adjectives, Articles, Figures of Speech, Reading, R-Controlled Words
- Lesson 16: Story, Fact or Opinion, Adverbs, Comparison, Reading, More R-Controlled Words
- Lesson 17: Proverbs, Couplets, Word Usage, Comparison, Reading, Schwa Words
- Lesson 18: Story, Truth or Fiction, 2nd Quarter Review, Parts of a Story, 2nd Quarter Spelling Review
- Lesson 19: Story, Write a Story, Word Usage, Better Sentences, Book Report, oi, oy, ou, ow Words
- Lesson 20: Picture Study, Descriptive Writing, Prepositions, Better Sentences, Reading, Letter y Words
- Lesson 21: Story, Map Study, Eight Parts of Speech, Complex Sentences, Reading, Never, Rarely, and FSZL Words
- Lesson 22: Poem, ABABCCDD Pattern Poem, Eight Parts of Speech, Better Sentences, Reading, Double Letter Words
- Lesson 23: Story, Word Categories, Eight Parts of Speech, Better Sentences, Reading, Plural Words
- Lesson 24: Picture Study, Descriptive Writing, Direct Object, Writing Paragraphs, Reading, Plural Words
- Lesson 25: Story, Non-fiction, Fiction, Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Writing Paragraphs, Reading, Plural Words
- Lesson 26: Proverbs, Couplets, Personification, Homophones, Writing Paragraphs, Reading, Suffix Words
- Lesson 27: Story, Writing a Story, 3rd Quarter Review, Parts of a Story, 3rd Quarter Spelling Review
- Lesson 28: Story, Character Descriptions, Review-Nouns, Review: Sentences, Book Reports, Suffix Words
- Lesson 29: Picture Study, Descriptive Writing, Review-Verbs, Review-Sentences, Reading, Suffix Words
- Lesson 30: Story, Setting Description, Review-Verb, Review-Punctuation, Reading, Suffix Words
- Lesson 31: Poem, No Pattern Rhyming Poems, Review-Verbs, Review-Contractions, Abbreviations, Reading, Suffix Words
- Lesson 32: Story, Map Study, Review-Adjectives, Adverbs, Review-Synonyms, Antonyms, Figures of Speech, Comparing, Reading, Prefix Words
- Lesson 33: Picture Study, Descriptive Writing, Review-Tricky Words!, Prepositions, Review: Comparison, Better Sentences, Reading, Prefix Words
- Lesson 34: Story, Plot Description, Review-Eight Part of Speech, Review-Sentences, Comma Splice, Conjunctions, Reading, Root Words
- Lesson 35: Proverbs, Couplets, Review: Direct Object, Homophones, Homonyms, Homographs, Friendly Letter, Reading, Root Words
- Lesson 36: Story, Story Writing, 4th Quarter Review, Book Report, 4th Quarter Spelling Review
- Teacher Aids
- Answer Key
