A Catholic English book, combining the beauty of literature, art, and poetry with the study of grammar and composition. In this completely integrated program your student will study grammar concepts within the context of real literature and write compositions that encourage critical thinking.

The text provides daily student lessons for a 36 four-day weeks. Each week features a piece of literature or a painting, one grammar concept, and one student writing assignment. The student will learn and practice narrative, expository, and persuasive writing as well as try his hand at writing poetry. Integrated throughout the text are the thoughts of great Catholic thinkers making this a uniquely Catholic book – Catholic in perspective – focused on the beauty of our Faith.

Literature selections include pieces by St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Abraham Lincoln, Kenneth Grahame, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Poetry selections include authors such as Sir Walter Scott, Longfellow, John Henry Newman, and Father Abram Ryan.

Printed in full colour, the art selections include painters such as Auguste Renoir, William Liddall Armitage, Winslow Homer, and Carlo Dolci.

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Lingua Mater Complete answer key
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This text is the long awaited sequel to Lingua Mater: Language Lessons from Literature. It is intended for 8th or 9th grade and includes 36 weeks of lessons with a nine-week short story unit that includes the complete text of six short stories.

It continues the method begun in Lingua Mater of integrating grammar exercises with response to literature and art and using that as a springboard to good writing. Every piece of literature or art featured is by an American author or painter, such as Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent.

All selections are by American authors, some contemporary (homeschool moms, Dawn Hanigan and Suchi Myjak as well as Elaine Woodfield). Please see the table of contents (Table of Contents_LMA) for the complete list of topics covered.

Unit 4 is a short story unit.

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The Time Trilogy teacher manual includes a short essay by Michael about each novel, vocabulary words to study in advance of the readings, language illustration questions, quotations for quote quizzes, discussion questions and activities, and suggestions for academic writing practice.

Companion Products:

MCT Level 5: Complete Package
MCT Level 5: Student Book Set

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This guide has been carefully prepared to help you teach, improve, and refine students’ skills with engaging games, compelling lessons, interesting tips, and more! Through step-by-step instructions for group or one-on-one settings, you will teach students: 

• The remaining phonograms and spelling rules
• New roots and affixes
• Why some sounds assimilate
• Past, present, and future tenses
• How to identify and punctuate dependent clauses

Every lesson is simple to teach, fun to learn, and easy to follow! No prior preparation or planning is needed.

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The scripted lessons, interactive games, and fun activities in this guide make it easy for teachers and parents to teach, review, and evaluate students’ progress as they learn: 

• New multi-letter phonograms
• Suffixing rules
• Irregular verbs and pronouns
• Clauses and adjectival phrases
• And more

This pick-up-and-teach manual is filled with multi-level instructions ideal for both group and one-on-one settings. The instructions in this guide are carefully crafted to help you assess and fulfill the individual needs of all your students.

*Essentials is an integrated reading, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary curriculum for ages 8 to adult.

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This multi-level manual contains differentiated instruction, making it perfect for a wide variety of learning settings. Essentials 8-15 Teacher’s Guide will assist you in teaching students:

• Multi-letter phonograms
• Spelling at three levels
• Contractions
• Prefixes and suffixes
• Parts of speech
• And more

The scripted lessons, assessments, and tips will help you deliver quality, systematic instruction quickly and easily.

*Essentials is an integrated reading, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary curriculum for ages 8 to adult.

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This comprehensive, multi-level guide will help you teach concepts ranging from phonemic awareness and systematic phonics to morphology and grammar rules. Designed to help you prepare instructions with ease, Essentials 1-7 Teacher’s Guide contains:

• Scripted lessons
• Three levels of differentiated instruction
• Assessments 
• Teacher’s tips
• Interactive games and activities 
• And much more

*Essentials is an integrated reading, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary curriculum for ages 8 to adult that explains how English really works!

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Intended to be used in conjunction with the Essentials Reader, the Essentials Reader Teacher’s Guide prepares students for academic reading and writing through:

• Pre-reading
• Post-reading
• Cross-curricular activities
• Composition 

Experts have designed this guide to be used after each corresponding Essentials unit is taught. This helps students reinforce their knowledge of phonograms and spelling rules while learning vocabulary and decoding skills.

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This student activity book is filled with dozens of activities, practice pages, and templates to help students develop their:

• Pre-reading skills
• Comprehension skills
• Vocabulary
• Note-taking skills
• Composition skills
• Handwriting skills 

A companion to the Essentials Reader Teacher’s Guide and the Essentials Reader, this student activity book is an easy tool for teaching reading, writing, and spelling.

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From acorn hunting to the history of chocolate, Essentials Reader contains high-interest texts that target students’ comprehension and critical thinking skills. This reader grows in complexity as new phonograms, spelling rules, and high-frequency words are taught. Stories range from text using only single-letter phonograms to poems to full articles.

At the beginning of each story, teachers and students will find a list of “challenging” words to decode before reading the text. Decoding these words prior to reading the text helps students focus on comprehending the content rather than sounding out words. 

The Essentials Reader is 100% decodable – without guessing and without sight word memorization – when introduced as directed in the Essentials Teacher’s Guides. 

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