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I could not be more excited that our completely new Level 3 Language Arts course is releasing!
This course is available as a physical core set with beautiful printing and lay flat binding,
or you can download the entire course for free at goodandbeautiful.com.
I honestly don't think we have ever had such an amazing response from our pilot families
to any other course we've created. We've had so many comments like this one:
"This stuff works. This has easily been our favorite level
so far. I didn't think I could have possibly enjoyed anything more than
the first time I did level three with my oldest and this hit it out of the park."
I want to go over three things that our pilot families loved the most about this new course.
Their favorite thing by far was our new, read-together phonics books. These four books
are correlated with the course. Most days you are instructed to read one chapter which starts with
a phonics page. The phonics principles practiced are repeatedly used in the chapter for enforcement
and the read-together books, which means there are sections of each chapter that the child reads and
other sections that the parent reads. This proved to be the most loved part of the course! This
pilot comment reflects so many others that we received about the read-together books.
"It's crazy how much we love and enjoy these stories. The messages and the time we get
to share together enjoying beautiful literature is absolutely priceless."
So you may have noticed the book titled "The Kingdom of Kind" in the original
Level 3 course. This was a short story that children and parents have really loved!
We get a lot of positive comments about this story, and I'm excited to tell you that we
have expanded this story into a full-length book adding characters like Milo and his tiny dog Dune.
The core of our mission is to help homeschool be joyful and to help children see the delight
and joy in beautiful literature. These books are helping to do just that! A pilot mom said:
"The love of learning and the bonding that has taken place because of these
read-together books is truly priceless."
Let's take a look at the entire course set. This course connects all of these
things as it combines the following subjects into one easy-to-teach, no-prep-time course:
Phonics Reading
Spelling Writing
Grammar and Punctuation
Literature Art
Poetry and Geography.
The Level 3 course set comes with three components: the 412-page full-color course book,
the four read-together books, and the Spelling Practice book. The course book includes lessons on
spelling, and then the lessons are reinforced by this fun practice book. The spelling program has
a well-designed scope and sequence, including spelling rules, spelling principles, spelling
patterns, and commonly misspelled and rule breaker words. The spelling practice book is not only fun
but it's also effective, as it teaches children to segment words and use spelling patterns
and practice spelling patterns through varied activities and sentence dictation. The lessons
in the course are carefully designed to reduce teaching time and yet be academically robust.
Through careful design, so much good and beautiful learning takes place in a small amount of time.
The lesson portion is followed by an independent work section which the child can complete on their
own while you work with another child. One of the other loved parts of this course are the optional
videos that are in most lessons. You can use a video to replace the lesson if you don't want
to teach it or just need a break, or you can use the video to reinforce or extend the short lesson.
The videos proved to be amazingly effective and engaging, and parents loved having the option of
the video. Before I end, I have to talk about the writing program in this course because we
are so excited about it. It was our goal to build strong writers without making children melt down
or push back with every writing assignment like so many kids do at this age. It's important not to
overwhelm children and turn them off from writing. We want to help children love writing and feel
that they are good at it. Our special scaffolding approach in level three meets children where they
really are and makes writing seem achievable. The writing projects are also fun and correlated with
what they are learning in art, literature, and geography. As the children progress through the
course, they receive less and less scaffolding as their confidence and skills increase. I'll end
the video with a look at some other pages in the course book. I hope this course will be a joyful,
faith-building, mind-strengthening part of your homeschool journey.
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