PentecostalMom Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 I know there is Queen’s and Simply Charlotte Mason. What are some other options? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 English Lessons Through Literature 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beka87 Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Cottage Press is lovely. Or there is just the very traditional CM approach, which I think has a lot of merit: https://www.amblesideonline.org/LangArtsScopeSeq.shtml 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 (edited) For the first foray into this subject, I've always used English For the Thoughtful Child. I do a lot of it orally, and I substitute better prints for the ones in the book. It's pretty much what I'd do if I was making up my own program. For around grade 3 I've used Writing and Rhetoric, Fable, twice, and found it a good fit. It doesn't include much af a grammar component but it was really quite easy to add, even without a formal curriculum. Edited October 27, 2017 by Bluegoat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Above The Rowan Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Brave Writer seems to jive with CM pretty well. However, my kids have really done well with just a traditional CM approach to language arts - oral narrations after lessons, eventually leading into written narrations; copywork and dictation; grammar can be taught via copywork/dictation or through something like Primary/Intermediate Language Lessons. I have one child who is a natural writer and a child whose anxiety is triggered by anything language-related and the CM approach to LA has worked very well for both kids and allows me to meet them where they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 (edited) Charlotte Mason was not nearly as unique in her time as people think. Like Waldorf and Montessori, CM mostly just combined the ideas that she personally liked from among what was commonly and sometimes rarely already being done. This teacher manual provides a yearly typical scope and sequence for the first 4 grades and starts his textbook in grade 5. General grammar and composition instructions precede the scope and sequence listed in pages 11-19. Progressive Course in English: Teachers' Manual By Eli J. Hoenshel https://books.google.com/books?id=Zn8SAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Books like English for the Thoughtful Child were usually started in grade 3, but sometimes used as early as grade 2, or as late as grade 4, or stretched out over several years. Books like Harvey's Elementary were often started in grade 4 or 5. Home geographies were often used in grade 3, and an elementary geography started in grade 4, and a history text first introduced in grade 5 or 6. Just to compare. When graded math texts came out, like Strayer-Upton, they often were started in Grade 3. Links to some free alternatives to Strayer-Upton and what was done before. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/534083-free-strayer-upton-like-math-curriculum-complete-3-book-series-with-answers/ Ambleside Online starts amping everything up in year 4. That is typical of CM's time. Different educators mostly just differed in what to amp up exactly when, as it is best to not amp up everything at exactly the same time. A common choice was to offer gentle transitional texts in grade 3 for many subjects and to first hit the new math textbook series the hardest, before hitting the other subjects hard. You will notice that after the first half of McGuffey's third reader, the lesson format suddenly switches to what is used in the fourth and fifth readers. And then the spelling book is introduced along with the 4th reader. Remember that "grades" did not always last a year and were sometimes tied to the readers before 1900. To further complicate this, the number and difficulty of the readers differed from publisher to publisher and sometimes even edition to edition. Volume 10 of Journey's Through Bookland provides a lot of instruction to parents on how to use the series to provide lessons very much like CM suggested. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24857 Oral Lessons http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24857/24857-h/24857-h.htm#Oral_Lessons Edited October 29, 2017 by Hunter 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastalfam Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 English Lessons Through Literature has been my favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marylandhsmom Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 Hunter -- Thanks for this! Do you happen to know what the title of Eli Hoenshel's 5th grade textbook is called? I'm finding a lot of different names and reprints online... Thanks!! Charlotte Mason was not nearly as unique in her time as people think. Like Waldorf and Montessori, CM mostly just combined the ideas that she personally liked from among what was commonly and sometimes rarely already being done. This teacher manual provides a yearly typical scope and sequence for the first 4 grades and starts his textbook in grade 5. General grammar and composition instructions precede the scope and sequence listed in pages 11-19. Progressive Course in English: Teachers' Manual By Eli J. Hoenshel https://books.google.com/books?id=Zn8SAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Books like English for the Thoughtful Child were usually started in grade 3, but sometimes used as early as grade 2, or as late as grade 4, or stretched out over several years. Books like Harvey's Elementary were often started in grade 4 or 5. Home geographies were often used in grade 3, and an elementary geography started in grade 4, and a history text first introduced in grade 5 or 6. Just to compare. When graded math texts came out, like Strayer-Upton, they often were started in Grade 3. Links to some free alternatives to Strayer-Upton and what was done before. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/534083-free-strayer-upton-like-math-curriculum-complete-3-book-series-with-answers/ Ambleside Online starts amping everything up in year 4. That is typical of CM's time. Different educators mostly just differed in what to amp up exactly when, as it is best to not amp up everything at exactly the same time. A common choice was to offer gentle transitional texts in grade 3 for many subjects and to first hit the new math textbook series the hardest, before hitting the other subjects hard. You will notice that after the first half of McGuffey's third reader, the lesson format suddenly switches to what is used in the fourth and fifth readers. And then the spelling book is introduced along with the 4th reader. Remember that "grades" did not always last a year and were sometimes tied to the readers before 1900. To further complicate this, the number and difficulty of the readers differed from publisher to publisher and sometimes even edition to edition. Volume 10 of Journey's Through Bookland provides a lot of instruction to parents on how to use the series to provide lessons very much like CM suggested. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24857 Oral Lessons http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24857/24857-h/24857-h.htm#Oral_Lessons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homemommy83 Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 Primary and Intermediate Language Lessons are definitely Charlotte Mason styled programs. They incorporate Narration, Copywork/Dicatation, Language Usage, Poetry Memorization, Letter Writing, and Observation Lessons. I think these are fabulous programs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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