This simple-to-use scripted guide to grammar and composition makes successful teaching easy for both parents and teachers. It uses the classical techniques of memorization, copywork, dictation, and narration to develop a childs language ability in the first years of study.

A Charlotte Mason and classical approach with short, easy-to-teach lessons for English usage, punctuation, composition, oral language skills, letter writing, and more. Includes narration, picture study (some printed in color), copywork, and dictation, as well as fables and poetry by famous authors such as Christina Rosetti, Edward Lear, and Robert Louis Stevenson. This non-consumable book (not a workbook) has enjoyable oral and written activities that may be used exactly as written or adapted to a child's specific needs and learning style. Spiral-bound, 81⁄2 x 11 inches, with teacher instructions and answers included. Language Lessons for Today: Grade 2 was adapted by My Father'?s World from Primary Language Lessons by Emma Serl (1911), with significant revisions, updated language and examples, and additional new content. For 2nd Grade. - See more at: http://www.mfwbooks.com/item/30016/Language-Lessons-for-Today-/#sthash.eSSHNqs5.dpuf

Ripped from middle-class life in Philadelphia, and transplanted to a single-parent household in the segregated south, Sarah, a precocious black child struggles to be the master of her fate. She refuses to accept the segregation that tries to confine herÑa system her mother accepts as the southern way of life. A brave memoir that testifies to the authorÕs fiery spirit and sense of self that sustained her through family, social and cultural upheavals.

This edition of Advanced Language Lessons is an edited republished edition of Aldine Third Language Book, which was originally published in 1917.