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A complete language arts program covering writing, grammar, and much more in one easy to use curriculum.	List Price: $79.00 Our Price: $78.00 You Save $1.00! Ages: 9-10 Grade Levels: 4th-5th Availability: Usually Ships in 24 Hours Product Code: 333-A Click to view another CQLA Sets First, Select CQLA Sets

Timberdoodle's review Learn more   Character Quality Language Arts for 4th and 5th graders These 700 to 900 page worktexts contain all of your 4th-5th graders' language arts for one year. Continued emphasis on writing with longer original essays including step-by-step instructions, adding more revisions to their essays, and applying their grammar learning to writing. Specify Red Series, Blue Series, or Green Series, according to whether you have done any colors prior to this and what character qualities you desire to study. Choose from the following sets: Red: Peacemaking, Boldness, Endurance, Joyfulness, Initiative, Thoroughness, Truthfulness and Compassion. Blue: Creativity, Obedience, Orderliness, Virtue, Love, Responsibility, Wisdom and Decisiveness. Green: Alertness, Self-control, Gratefulness, Humility, Meekness, Diligence, Gentleness and Sincerity. About Character Quality Language Arts Language Lessons sounds wonderful, and it is. But it may not be for every family. If God has blessed you with a quiverful of children, thank Him and then consider Character Quality Language Arts. Uniquely designed for the parent who is teaching a roomful of multi-grade levels, CQLA is suitable for second- through twelfthgrade students and teaches vocabulary, spelling, grammar, composition, creative writing, poetry, and dictation. As you can imagine, multilevel, all-in-one programs are easier to implement and tend to be more cost-effective. Written by home educators for home educators, CQLA has teacher helps, lesson plans and answer keys-all the grunt work has been done for you. But it is not a program that will overpower you with its beauty, nor is it replete with four-color photos. This very vanilla-looking program is merely a stack of three-hole punched paper, shrink-wrapped for shipping. But if you've never learned not to judge a book by its cover, then now is the time, for this is truly a jewel in disguise. In CQLA, a specific character quality is focused on each month, with all the language arts exercises taken from the Bible, character resources, and biographies. Each weekly lesson at all levels begins in the same manner with a passage of material about the character quality. All lessons for the week come from this passage: copy work, spelling words, grammar concepts, writing assignments, etc. Additionally, all of the editing paragraphs and grammar sentences are about the monthly character quality. So your children are learning more about Godly character while doing language arts. Within each color/volume are four levels, covering two grade levels. What this means is that the entire family can be studying similar topics at each child's own appropriate level. This makes a teaching parent's job much easier. Each CQLA book is broken down into monthly units, weekly lessons, and even an optional week at the end of each month for those families who must keep strict records of a 180-school-day year. Skills and concepts are introduced, practiced, reviewed, and built upon with higher levels of difficulty from year to year. Some families may decide to skip portions of CQLA; I personally feel the Sequential Spelling program makes more sense than the spelling portion of CQLA, but you may feel otherwise. You do not have to do everything that is outlined. Some children are already spewing out volumes of essays, so requiring even more can put a damper on creativity. But an occasional assignment will give direction and help brush up on essential skills. CQLA does not teach phonics, literature, or how to write a research paper. If you have more than one child working at the same level, this program will be even more of a blessing as you save precious time with the dictation quiz, spelling test, and so forth. In fact, we suggest saving even more time by investing in an inexpensive voice recorder that you, or your child, can prerecord dictation and spelling tests on. Each student worktext is between 700 and 900 pages in length. The extensive pages are for a couple of reasons: (1) the books are work-texts; most of the students' work (except for report writing and dictation quizzes) are done in the books; (2) the lesson plans and user-friendly answer keys are included in the back of each student's worktext. Besides the essential dictionary and thesaurus, if you choose to take advantage of the spelling program, you will want to invest in a copy of The Spelling Notebook for each child. This worktext includes spelling rules and serves as the student's workbook for each week's spelling lesson. One Spelling Notebook per child is used for the entire second through twelfth grades. The CQLA Teacher's Guide, a 300-page book with accompanying CD walking you through a CQLA lesson, explains how the program works and provides a sample lesson, scope, and sequence for CQLA, how to write the various types of reports and essays including timed essays like those required for the SAT, and much more. Most parents will find the Teacher's Guide indispensable. At first glance, CQLA is not a cheap program, but when you consider that you do not need a separate writing, spelling, or grammar text, it works out to be cost-effective. Then, when you factor in the time you save in preparation, CQLA becomes a real bargain. Pre A is for students working at second- and third-grade levels. A for those working at fourth- and fifth-grade levels. B is for those working at sixth- through eighth-grade levels. C is for those working at high-school level.   Features View a sample of CQLA: One Month Sample Perfect for families with many children Teaches writing, grammar, and spelling (with the use of The Spelling Notebook, not included) Author: Donna Reish Binding: None Publisher: Training For Triumph Average Customer Review: Based on 8 Reviews. Write a review.

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My children would say it is worth the time August 29, 2009 Reviewer: Cheri S. from Vancouver, WA   We love this program. Both my 5th grade son and 7th grade daughter have made huge strides in their writing. Writing instruction is specific and effective, grammar is taught understandably, vocabulary is challenging but applicable, and spelling practice is reasonable. All passages teach and reinforce godly character. My daughter appreciates the challenge that it brings her, and my son is pleased with the progress in his writing. Both would say it is worth the time that they spend working in it daily. I heartily agree. The program does take some time to learn but it is definitely worth staying with. Excellent tips are given in the teacher's manual to help with the process. Highly recommended. Was this review helpful to you?

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Very user friendly! August 29, 2009 Reviewer: Sheila K. from Fredericksburg, TX   CQLA is more work for my kids than other programs they have used, but that was due to my lack of thoroughness in putting together a program for them.  This program covers all the bases and is very user friendly.  It is designed for multi-grade families and fills that need nicely.  One of my favorite things about it is that it addresses character.  It is very similar in some respects to Learning Language Arts Through Literature, but I don't have to worry about potentially objectionable literature selections.  My kids like it as well as other programs we have used--no better, no worse.  It doesn't require tons of parental oversight, but I do have to keep up with them and sometimes explain grammar in more detail than the text does.  Overall, I love the all-inclusive format and the character emphasis. Worth the price! Was this review helpful to you?

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overwhelming August 29, 2009 Reviewer: Linda Hensz from Narrowsburg, NY United States   I purchased this from Timberdoodle when I was at my wits end trying to find a program for my middle-high schooler. I have been homeschooling for 15 years, and I really did TRY to figure this program out, but after awhile just resold it. With 5 children to homeschool, I found this quite time consuming besides. Was this review helpful to you?

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CQLA is a tedious program to use August 29, 2009 Reviewer: Laurie T. from NY   CQLA is a tedious program to use.  While I don't doubt it's effectiveness it took a long time to get the hang of it and is not teacher friendly.  Too much is assumed to be known by the teacher and it takes 3 times as long to complete the lessons than what is stated.  I like it's thoroughness but needs to be put in a more user friendly format.  The challenge checklists are difficult to understand and not for the timid or simple minded teacher such as I am. The teacher manual is huge and hard to locate things. Etc! Was this review helpful to you?

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Too much of the same thing for the older kid. August 29, 2009 Reviewer: Kim H. from Seminary, MS   Although my child did not adapt to or enjoy the CQLA product, I did like the character focus and had this been for a younger age, I think we would have used and enjoyed it more.   It was too much of the same thing for the older kid. Was this review helpful to you?

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