MCT LEVEL 1 Complete Homeschool Package - Package by Royal Fireworks Press

Building Language provides an introduction to Latin stems as the bases for much of the English and Spanish languages. Using the analogy of the arch in architecture, the book explores the Roman roots of our buildings and of our language. Ten lessons introduce important Latin stems, providing an intellectual key for young students to understand that big words aren't necessarily hard. It rejects the specious confines of teaching age-graded vocabulary.

This is the vocabulary precursor to Caesar's English I and II.

Building Language Sample Pages pdf file

Grammar Island introduces, in very simple fashion, the full four-level grammar of (1) parts of speech, (2) parts of sentences, (3) phrases, and (4) clauses.

Using color to reinforce the lessons, the book offers grammar in child-friendly ways, with an array of strategies to make sophisticated material alive and fun.

Each page focuses on a single concept, and the teaching approach is to read together with kids, talk about the concepts, ask questions, refer back, and respond to questions before venturing further.

A book to delight students just beginning grammar.

This introduction to poetry emphasizes that poetry demands a whole-brain appreciation.

Among featured topics in this volume are:

Sound in language

Rhyme, end rhyme, rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, eye rhyme.

Alliteration

Meter: the foot, iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl.

Stanza: sonnet, quatrain, couplet, ballad.

Poetic techniques: simile and metaphor.

Poets quoted include: Emily Dickinson, Robert Burns; William Shakespeare; Thomas Hardy, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Teacher manuals for the curriculum always contain the student book, plus extra pages for instruction, answers to questions where applicable and suggestions throughout the text for teachers to implement.

Revised, Second Edition. The teacher manuals in the series always include the student book plus special boxes and inserts of tips further questions for the teacher, pre and post tests, activities for specific topics, and wonderful original readings to keep the energy level charged with fun learning.

Sample pages (pdf files): page 31 | page 83 | page 145 | page 146|

In response to requests from English teachers who have discovered the results that can be achieved from using his grammar and vocabulary programs, we are pleased to present Michael Clay Thompson’s series about writing.

It begins with Sentence Island, a lavishly illustrated book for third grade, gifted or fourth grade regular students. Ideally, Michael would like kids to use Grammar Island first, and then proceed on to Sentence Island, all the while working with Building Language and Music of the Hemispheres. For information on these books and the complete series, go to Michael Clay Thompson's Language Arts Curriculum.

This volume features an array of quirky animals, birds, insects, a talking tree and an amazing fish—whose name is Mud. From each character, Mud learns a different aspect of sentence structure. These rules and concepts are the essential foundation students need for formal writing assignments.

This eagerly anticipated book teaches in a lively way some advanced concepts. Understanding these concepts enables students to write sentences that make sense, communicate ideas and impart information. Its approach and the wonderful illustrations, demonstrate too that it can be fun to write well.

The next book in the writing series is Paragraph Town.

The teacher manuals in the curriculum always include the student book overlaid with tips for teaching, plus: extra material containing wonderful original readings to keep the energy level charged with fun learning and, where applicable, pre and post tests, answers to questions and activities for specific topics.

Part of Michael Clay Thompson's Language Arts Curriculum, Practice island is the first of the elementary level Practice Workbooks. Its aim is to improve students' grammar, writing and vocabulary through analysis of individual sentences. His proven and effective approach to teaching English begins with the basic principles and in later books progresses to advanced levels, all the while in a wonderfully fresh and accessible style and original format.

This is primarily a supplement to Grammar Island and Sentence Island; students work through the sentences using a unique four-level analysis and thereby reinforce their grammar and writing skills.

Each of the hundred sentences has a separate page with four blank lines to fill in the parts of speech, the parts of the sentence, phrases and clauses. By the end of the workbook, by examining a wide and often amusing set of sentences, students experience the success and satisfaction of a clear understanding of the principles of English sentences.

A really useful, low-cost and consumable workbook. The practice books have class set prices depending upon the quantity ordered; schools and school districts can combine orders of the practice books for maximum discount:

25 books: $9.00
50 books: $8.00
100 books: $7.00
250 books: $6.50
500 books: $6.00
750 books: $5.50
1,000 books: $5.00

Any mix of practice books can be ordered. Please note that in most cases, the shopping cart will not show the actual discount; this will be applied when you are billed, and no matter what the shopping cart says, you will never be billed or charged at a higher rate than that to which you are entitled.

The Teacher Manual gives an introduction to the course, advice on implementation, correct answers and comments about each sentence.

Sample: Sentence 46 and Comments: page 57