First Language Lessons Level 1

I purchased these lessons to use with my 1st and 2nd grade daughters. We had not done any formal grammar lessons so I started them both together at this first level. They enjoy working through the lessons together. This is a teacher workbook. Students do not write in this book so it can be used again and again with multiple children. Any writing that needs to be done requires lined paper. There are 100 lessons in all. Each lesson is a separate lesson which builds on the previous one. This allows you to work at whatever pace you want. We work through the lessons 2 days out of the week completing 2 lessons at one sitting, which is very doable, the lessons are quite short. Your child will gain a solid understanding of nouns, pronouns, action verbs, abbreviations, beginning capitalization, and the four main types of sentences. All throughout there are poems to memorize and narration and copywork exercises to go through. I am very grateful to have found a simple and effective way to go through the basics of grammar with my young ones in a way that is not overwhelming but actually interactive and enjoyable.

We're working our way though this Language Arts book in our homeschool. It's simple and I would recommend it for grades 1-3, as it covers basic things like memorizing your address, defining a sentence, basic parts of speech, introduction to simple poems, etc. Easy to follow and already broken into daily digestible parts.

I love this curriculum! My 6 yr old is doing his 2nd year of kinder- he is autistic and just wasn't ready for a regular kinder curriculum last year emotionally or behaviorally (even though, academically, he was capable), so this year is more of the meat while last year was more of an intro to kinder. This curriculum is excellent. I just tested him this past week using a testing web site and in grammar he scored in 2nd grade- because of THIS curriculum. This is recommended for 1st grade, but I think an advanced kinder student could use this just fine, as mine is. It doesn't have fluff. It does go into depth on what a noun is and 1/3 of the way through we are still working on what a noun is. Now you might think, that is stupid and boring, but it isn't. We started out working on the definition of a noun. Then the next day we had a poem. Then we came back and touched on one type of nouns and specifically one small subset of that type of nouns, then reviewed the poem. Then we read a story and talked about it and reviewed the poem for memorization. Every day is simple, straight forward enough that very young children can easily grasp it, and no two days are the same and typically the subject matter changes every day and slowly it broadens the horizon of what a noun is and the different types of nouns while learning that proper nouns are capitalized. Within that, the student learns their own complete name and how to write it correctly, the names of their parents, their complete address, days of the week, etc. It is very thorough and my son, who has a little difficulty with focus, never finds it boring or tedious. We are only a little over a 1/3 of the way through level 1, but I already plan on using level 2 next year for him and even switching my older son from the LA book he is using to this series level 4. It's that good. I also use Explode the Code and Reading Eggs, plus reading time every day, to round out our Reading/Writing/Language Arts program.

My daughter loves it! Simply put, I have a mathy kid who doesn’t like to read or write. And I couldn’t tell you the parts of speech for anything. And yet, my daughter enjoys this book. The lessons are short and concise. The poems to memorize are fun or silly or classic. While the book can be used alongside Writing with Ease, it is not necessary as their is adequate copywork available within the context of this book for a 6-7yr old. Definitions of sentence types are learned gradually, by hearing and saying the sentences together as parent/child. Examples are quick but thorough, and lessons last 10-15 minutes with 90 lessons in the book. Child workbook is not needed, though plain paper for writing is helpful.

I am a homeschool parent who classical teaches my children. I am really excited about using this book this year and following years with the rest of my children. I really like how the lessons are short. I also like that it uses narration, copy work and picture studies to help the child learn basic English grammar. Having scripted lessons is really helpful when you are not totally sure how to teach the lessons. I normally do not read scripted curriculum word for word to my children, but I do often read it before I teach my children to get a better understanding of how to teach it. My family attends classical conversations and we memorize all sorts of things, but we do not memorize literature. This book is great because my children will get to memorize poetry which I have been wanting for some time to do. I am only giving this book four stars because I have not used it yet.

I am using this to supplement public school for my six year old kindergarten child. She is a bright girl, but could really use some language intervention- getting her thoughts out orally. I have found these short lessons to be perfect for her attention span, and they discuss things she may have never really thought about before. I feel like it will train her to form complete sentences as she answers things out loud, listen carefully, and learn concepts such as nouns, family members, seasons, etc.- basic things about which, sadly, we’ve never had a super formal conversation. This book takes care of that. I also know it will help her as she begins writing in a year or two. I also appreciate the lessons where the child is asked to describe pictures. I think this is extremely important in our fast paced, looking at screens world. These are slow, gentle teaching conversations about literature, pictures, definitions and parts of speech. Invaluable .

This is such a perfect and easy way to introduce your kids in upper kindergarten and first grade to grammar. Just go for it. Very well planned lessons with gentle reinforcements of the concepts.

Really like this book. We are still only on lesson 12 but my boys (7 and 5) both like it because the lessons are short, they are spoken so it isn't too formal and they enjoy the memorizing the poems. Its also easy to use as the dialogue is all spelt out for you. Little repetitive in parts but you can skip ahead if you want to.

So far we're loving this book, repetitive, but the lessons stick. It's even a good review for adults :)

nice product

Best grammar curriculum, already in second part.