First Language Lessons Level 1: 0

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.

My son and I are following it and we are loving it! It's very helpful for me to have everything already planned so I can just get on with it.

Like it.get on time.

excellent + thank you

brilliant

I bought this for home educating my five year old after she had been deregistered from school, as we enjoy The Story Of The World and hoped this would be a good structured course for her. Well, it is structured, and at first it seems impressive, but it is far too repetitive. She could recite the definition of a noun within a couple of days, and the rest didn't go much further. We will dip in for useful ideas, but it really isn't as exciting as Story Of The World.

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.

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.

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.