McGuffey's Readers Language Arts: Level 1
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Welcome to the Land of Kakiak where we LOVE the McGuffey's Readers! If you missed the first video in this series I've linked it below. It's where we go over the plan's resources. Today I am digging into that plan document and going through Level 1 of our Language Arts Program with the McGuffey's at the heart.
McGuffey's Plan & Resources Video: • McGuffey's Readers Ste...
Here is the link if you'd like to own a copy of the plan yourself. www.etsy.com/l...
2:40 how does your child know that the letter A has three sounds?
Thanks
So before I started the Primer, when we were just learning the abc's, I taught him all the sounds of each letter. I did this starting in preschool with flashcards and letter tracing. Here's a link to the resources I used. www.etsy.com/shop/LandOfKakiak?ref=seller-platform-mcnav§ion_id=42001072
Hi there! I am trying to decide which level my oldest son is at for 2nd grade. There are some elements that he knows but some that we have not covered yet. Like grammar for instance. We have lightly touched on it. He can read well and we are starting more italicized handwriting practice. He will be 8 in November. As I was watching this I thought the Primer would be good as a review since it does show italics but not cursive and the basics of grammar and copy work. He can write 4 lines but not yet in italics. We are touching lightly on spelling. So basically I am torn between starting with the Primer or 1st reader for his 2nd grade year. Thanks for your input.
Just a side note. We are new to McGuffy readers and I am thinking this will be our LA curriculum for next year. We are come from a Charlotte Mason-ish/eclectic background. Teaching LA sounds so daunting but this video I’m so thankful for- it gives me hope I can teach it thoroughly and well. Thank you for your work.
I would just go with whichever one fits his reading level best and the handwriting will follow along either way. I do have companion notebooks that also go with both of those books that contain copywork for each lesson (including the cursive ones from the books) as well as print and cursive copywork only. In the copywork I create (present in both options above) I do the model handwriting part in gray and not black so that students can trace if needed. I might start him with tracing two lines and then writing those two lines. The first 10 lessons of the 1st reader are review. I hope that helps!
Thank you that helps a lot!
Very detailed and explained. Thanks for sharing! 💗☺️
Thanks for watching!
I purchased the original McGuffey's LA plan and noticed the scope and sequence chart is blank. It didn't come with one filled in. Is there a place to grab the one filled in without having to purchase the revised LA plan too? I love how it guides on what to point out for that lesson's reading.
I don’t have a filled in one for the originals. I just provided a blank one to fill in as you go as a record of what’s been covered.
How would you know where to jump in if you have already been using a different LA program?
Good question. I pulled this table from an article. Although we found the 2nd reader to fit nicely in second grade and we start the 3rd reader in third grade. I'm more into letting them cover the material at their own pace but the table will give you a good idea of where to start if you're switching.
1st Reader (Revised) 1st grade, 2nd grade
2nd Reader (Revised) 3rd grade, 4th grade
3rd Reader (Revised) 5th grade
4th Reader (Revised) 5th grade, 6th grade
5th Reader (Revised) Middle School (7th-9th)
6th Reader (Revised) High school (9th-12th)
I will be teaching letters and sounds to one child and this primer for another. Does this LA package help for those two lower grades? I don’t have 100 easy lessons.. for the younger child.. is there anything else I can use that you recommend looking into with that child learning letters and sounds? My children don’t do that amazing with flash cards so not sure about RC due to that. Thank you for reading this far! And giving me a moment of your time.
Of course! Thank you for being here. You can use Alpha Phonics in place of 100 Easy Lessons. You can print that for free from Don Potter's website. I just find 100 Easy Lessons much easier to use for me and for the two sons I have now used it with. The phonics flashcards are helpful because they let the child see the phoneme represented as an isolated grapheme. You can get free ones from Don Potter's website as well. This language arts plan is what I use with my boys from first grade on. You can use the primer to teach phonics of course I just prefer 100 Easy Lessons. It gave more repetition and a script for me to follow. Alpha phonics is similar but doesn't give all the extra reading coaching. I will be doing a video series soon on my copybooks and how I use them with our curriculum. This will be covering the preschool to first grade-ish time frame so I may be more helpful there. Stay tuned. Here's a helpful link for 100 EL. startreading.com/videos-supplementary-material/
@@landofkakiakahomeschool Thank you so kindly for your reply and helping me understand. Also, thank you for other resources to look into as well to check out 🙂. Especially as I anticipate the video you are working on 🙂. Off down the rabbit hole I go now. Thank you again!
We use the original edition. How customizable to that set do you think the plan document is? I think that they will still work well. Obviously, some of the activities wouldn't line up, but I think the plan itself would be really helpful to me!
I'm actually working on trying to make a more compatible plan for the originals right now. There will be a good amount of overlap. I'll share it as soon as it's done so stay tuned!
@@landofkakiakahomeschool yay! Thanks so much!
For this are you doing one lesson per week? r multiple lessons per week? Also, does this follow along with the parent-teacher guide recommendations?
I don't hold to one lesson per week until around the third reader, rather I stay on a lesson until it is mastered (read smoothly, accurate re-telling and can answer follow up questions, and copied at least once). If a child blasts through the reading in one go I just move on to the next lesson immediately. If it takes two weeks, so be it.
Are you referring to the parent guide that was written for the originals published by Mott Media? If so, I have read it but, no, it's not what I base my instruction on.
Hi, you are such a natural teacher! Love what you’ve created, and I truly appreciate your videos! My question, how come the lesson plans are 6 days a week? Is there a reason? Can the plans be edited for 4-5 days a week? Or does the Robinson curriculum recommend 6 days a week? (Sorry if these are silly questions, I’m a noob here! 😆)
I love the questions! They are good ones. Yes, for us it's because RC recommends six days a week, year-round schooling. The curriculum designer thinks that two days off makes it more difficult to restart on Monday and not as much is retained leading to needing to review more and lose a productive day or two each week to this. I tend to agree so we go with that recommendation. I will add that I have turned our sixth day into a mainly catch up or redo day (after church and lunch) for any missed or insufficient work from the week for my older boys mainly but they do still get a reading lesson that day from mom. It's not a full day of school by any means. So yes, you can absolutely take my six day schedule as suggestion but by no means a rule, and change it to suit your family. If you do four or five days instead of six your child will still learn to read and write! I know that most people do not follow my six day schedule and just do five and pick up where they left off on the following Monday and they are all doing just fine.
@@landofkakiakahomeschool thank you so much! I’m now on a mission to understand RC curriculum. Loving all your videos. New subscriber here
@@Kelly_Mae glad you’re here!
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