Hey everyone, I'm Jenny. I am so excited to walk you through our Level K Language Arts course.
This course is all you need to teach your child to read and to lay a strong foundation
in language arts. We offer the beautiful and inexpensive physical course to purchase, but
you can also download the entire course for free on goodandbeautiful.com. There is meaning and
power that comes into learning when a course is connected to God, family, nature, beautiful art,
and strong moral values. The Level K course connects all of these things as it combines all
of the following subjects in one easy-to-teach course that doesn't require prep time:
phonics, reading, spelling, writing, grammar and punctuation, literature, art, poetry, and
geography. The Level K course set comes with three components: the 368-page full-color course book,
the Reading Booster A Cards, and the Reading Booster A Book Set. I'll explain
how the Reading Booster A Cards and Book Set work, then we'll dive into the course book.
The Reading Booster A Cards consists of 64 cardstock pages and two sticker sheets. Each
card focuses on a certain phonics principle or a group of sight words. The course directs
you to work on Booster Cards with your child for six to ten minutes before most lessons.
You can usually practice one to three cards in that time. Once the card is mastered, your
child selects a sticker from the sticker sheets in the back and places it on the master circle
at the bottom of the card. Review cards are placed intermittently throughout the cards. These
beautiful and fun Reading Booster Cards will also tell you when to read the Reading Booster Books.
These adorable books correlate directly with each card. For example, at the bottom of card 40,
it says, "Have the child read the Reading Booster A Book number 16: My Little Chick."
This book focuses on the phonogram "ch" which was just learned on the Reading Booster Card, and the
book does not contain any words the child has not already learned. The phonics principles for
the Reading Booster A Book Set includes 20 books that correlate with these cards. These books can
be read as many times as desired for review and cementing principles. Alright, let's move
on to the course book. The lessons in the course book are quite short and very gentle. They were
carefully designed to reduce teaching time yet be academically robust, beating national standards.
Let's take a look now at how the lessons work. The child works on word families in Lesson 45.
Do you see the numbered target symbol on this lesson? The child should have mastered
Reading Booster Cards through this number before starting the lesson. Your child learns the phonics
principles through the Booster Cards before reviewing and further practicing those principles
in the course book. The child can move through the Booster Cards as quickly as desired.
Children often learn to read words faster than they can learn to write or spell words, and
their reading shouldn't be slowed down by writing, spelling, or grammar. This program allows children
to excel at reading at their own pace, not at the pace of other subjects such as spelling.
If a child finishes the Reading Booster A Cards before completing the course, the child can
continue their advanced pace in reading by moving on to the Reading Booster B Cards and Books while
finishing the Level K course book. Alright, I will walk you through this lesson. The first thing
lesson 45 has you do is practice Reading Booster Cards with the child for six to ten minutes.
Then the child reads the words in the green and yellow boxes.
You then briefly discuss what it means to have gratitude as a child reads words and matches
them to the correct image. The child explains why we should have gratitude for each of the items.
Next in lesson 45, you use a fun painting to help the child use their imagination and appreciate
art, but also to practice isolating sounds in a word to spell the words aloud. The last section of
the lesson, like all lessons, is a fun independent practice activity. Let's also look at lesson 10.
After practicing Booster Cards, the course instructs you to use the free Good and Beautiful
Letter Tiles app to practice isolating sounds in a word and then spelling the word. The Letter Tiles
app can be used on a computer or smartphone or a tablet. It is used in 28 out of the 120 lessons,
but you may opt to dictate the words and have the child write them or use your own physical tiles.
After the Letter Tiles activity in lesson 10, you and your child then watch a beautiful video
book titled Marco on the Map to learn more about geography. Books like these can be found quickly
on our free homeschooling app and are used to teach geography or art principles six times in
the course. at the end of Lesson 10, the child then completes an independent practice section.
one focus we had in creating these versions was to make writing less overwhelming and to help guide
the child in letter formation. Look at this page to see an example of how we have done just that.
The child traces the letters I and O and then does an exercise where he or she writes
I and O later in the course. This page shows how the course makes learning to write full sentences
less overwhelming. Let's take a look at a few other highlights of this course. This flipbook in
Lesson 11 is an example of the different learning styles and hands-on activities used in the course.
There are also occasional crafts like this spelling rainbow and fold-up books. Lesson
36 is one of the many examples of how the course integrates art with phonics, reading, geography,
and other principles into one lesson. Lesson 75 is one of the examples of how the course incorporates
occasional art projects. One of the things pilot children and parents loved about this course are
the audio narrations of paintings accessed through our free homeschooling app. The child listens to
the narration while looking at the painting in the course book. Through these narrations,
the child learns how to study a painting and how to write about it using model language. Creating
wonderful writers doesn't come from worksheets. It's a whole heart and mind approach that takes
years of exposing the child to beautiful language and effective writing instruction
that encourages the child to think to dig deeper and to learn what makes writing truly beautiful.
I'll end the video with a look at some other pages in the course book.
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