Well-Ordered Language Level 1A: The Curious Child's Guide to Grammar (Revised Edition)

Whats new in the revised edition? The revised edition intended to align Level 1 more closely with the rest of the series preserves all of the best features of the award-winning 1st edition while incorporating more comprehensive instruction about sentence analysis Pause for Punctuation and Moment for Mechanics elements and a Sentence Bank as an extra resource. The revised edition includes new grammar activities and wordplay puzzles plus several new literary examples. Most important the lessons are streamlined and their order realigned in the teachers edition to make them more easily accessible during class time. The result is a richer fuller more naturally flowing curriculum that fosters wonder and delight in learning to analyze English grammar. Children are naturally curious and will find and collect such things as sticks rocks flowers leaves and fruit arranging them naming them and making things out of them. They will even gather creatures such as butterflies and bugs with interest and delight. What if the study of grammar could harness a childs natural curiosity? What if it could be a source of delight to children? The Well-Ordered Language curriculum presents the study of language in a way that appeals to a childs inborn curiosity and desire to collect gather and order. The curriculum presents grammar in a clear orderly way while simultaneously seeking to cultivate a childs wonder of language by presenting instruction in the context of narrative and language attractive illustrations and samples taken from classic children s literature and poetry. Students will not merely be able to identify the parts of a sentence but will understand how words behave in a sentence. As students see the components of language (the parts of speech) unfold before them throughout the Well-Ordered Language series they will be able to apply their knowledge gathering and arranging words to express their thoughts clearly and accurately. The curriculum is designed so that teachers and students actively engage with each other and with the grammatical concepts in each lesson using language skills reading writing speaking and listening along with physical movement songs and chants. Through Well-Ordered Languages unique creative and orderly method of analyzing the grammatical functions of the parts of speech students will find the mastery of grammar achievable meaningful and delightful. Well-Ordered Language Level 1A (WOL 1A) will introduce students to: -Four kinds of sentences (declarative interrogatory imperative exclamatory) -Subject and predicate -Verbs -Adverbs -Adjectives -Direct Objects -Subject Pronouns -Helping Verbs