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More effective than you might think... |
February 23, 2010 |
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Gina Craven
from Burbank, CA United States
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My daughter was having trouble with the book we were using (Primary Language Lessons by Emma Serl) and I felt I needed something a bit more contemporary, but in the same vein. This is it. High quality art, excellent character building copywork and easy grammer lessons have been very beneficial for my daughter(8 years old). The lessons can seem too easy to actually be enough for one day, but don't underestimate what your child is learning, and don't be afraid to do more than one per day. I am very happy with how she has improved this year using it. I may have given this book four and a half stars, if that had been an option, because I feel it is a bit over priced, especially since it is a consumable product and we went through it in less than a year. That is the only drawback in my opinion.
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Whole-heartedly endorse these books! |
October 23, 2008 |
| Reviewer:
Karen B.
from Cardington, OH
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We love the Language Lessons series by Sandi Queen! She's done a very nice job of picking out interesting quotes, stories, etc. for children to copy. The pictures are absolutely fantastic!! We use these for all of our children who are school age and will continue to use them for our younger ones. I used to have the kids copy different things I picked out, but a I got busier I wanted to find something that would do the same thing I was doing, but I didn't find anything I liked. I was thrilled to find these and was so happy to see Timberdoodle start to offer these. I whole-heartedly endorse these books by Sandi Queen, You won't be disappointed.
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Not what I was expecting, |
October 17, 2008 |
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Wendy B.
from Texas City, Texas
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I have been trying to implement a Charlotte Mason style language arts program with my youngest children. Specifically, I was wanting age appropriate copywork and helping my son improve his narrations. I decided to trial LLVY. The copywork, poetry, and picture selections were excellent and we enjoyed them. The layout was horrible and the over program was incoherent. There was no weekly copywork assignments.....there were creative writing assignments....there were silly exercises like circle the nouns and place a v by the verbs. This was not what I was expecting with a Charlotte Mason Language Arts program! We have switched to Writing with Ease by Susan Bauer. It helps me pick age-appropriate copywork selections and narrations exercises. It also helps me choose those selections based on a weekly focus. There is a workbook option available for folks who do not want to have to pick these selections which we are currently exploring. Writing with Ease focus is just writing in the form of copywork, narrations and dictation and if a far better fit for a Charlotte Mason style language arts program. Overall, I felt that LLVY tried to incorporate far too many aspects of a traditional language arts program and disguise it with too many Charlotte Mason components.
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