Monthly Archives: November 2013

Meaningful Writing

by Lene Jaqua Posted on November 28, 2013

With the holidays here, I wanted to mention all the meaningful writing activities that you can engage your students in. Not that essay writing and curricula are not meaningful, but that students more so love to write for a real … Continue reading →

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Dictation in elementary school

by Lene Jaqua Posted on November 23, 2013

🙂 The copybook post was so very popular, I thought would follow it up with a post on dictation. Copybook allows the student to study a passage, note the spelling and mechanics, and reproduce the piece accurately in his or … Continue reading →

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Story and Elementary School Kids

by Lene Jaqua Posted on November 15, 2013

To finish my thoughts on story. Story is what life is made of, in hindsight. We all have stories to tell of our lives. There isn’t a person who doesn’t have a life story with unique details, details that shape … Continue reading →

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Story

by Lene Jaqua Posted on November 12, 2013

Story is a concept that mankind seems to have employed from the beginnings of his communications. Story tells of what is, what was, what might be, and sometimes it tells of what never was, but perhaps what could have been, … Continue reading →

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Read Aloud to your Kids

by Lene Jaqua Posted on November 9, 2013

WE all hear it, “Read to your kids!” but how do we fit it into a busy day? Some of my fondest moments in homeschooling were the times when we read aloud literature to each other. We plowed through so … Continue reading →

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How to do copybook with your early elementary grade student

by Lene Jaqua Posted on November 7, 2013

Copybook and dictation for grades 2 and 3 and up. I am going to write a series of blogs on the sequence of writing instruction starting with copybook, then dictation, then simple retelling of stories up through writing of the … Continue reading →

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Modern Writing and Traditional Ancient Writing

by Lene Jaqua Posted on November 2, 2013

Note – I wrote a blog a while back on ancient writing – Discovering the Arguments: Artistic and Inartistic Proofs. You may want to read that after reading this, to go more in depth with the ancient modes (if that … Continue reading →

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