Too often, elementary school level language arts programs make use of one "Grammar and Composition" text to teach the very different skills of grammatical understanding and actual writing. Inevitably, grammar gets shortchanged, or writing becomes too programmed and mechanical.
We overcome this by packaging our innovative, exercise-centered grammar program with our literature-based, age-appropriate writing program. Easy-to-use, open-and-go scripted lessons make teaching grammar and writing simple and effective. Together, each Bundle offers an unparalleled full year of language arts study.
This third level of grammar and writing can follow the Second Grade bundle, or students already working at a third grade level can go directly into it for a full year of language arts study. Fourth grade students new to the program should begin here as well.
Writing With Ease includes both instructor dialogue and student worksheets.
First Language Lessons includes a consumable Student Workbook and a separate Instructor Guide, which includes an answer key.
Susan Wise Bauer is a writer, educator, and historian. Her previous books include the Writing With Ease, Writing With Skill, and Story of the World series from Well-Trained Mind Press, as well as The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series, all from W. W. Norton. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, as well as an M.A. in seventeenth-century literature and a Master of Divinity in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature. For fifteen years, she taught literature and composition at the College of William and Mary.
Sara Buffington has experience as a teacher and children's book editor. Now a freelance writer, Buffington is the co-author of The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading and First Language Lessons, Level Three.
Jessie Wise, a former teacher, is a home education consultant, speaker, and writer. She has decades of experience as a classroom teacher, elementary school principal, private tutor, and educational consultant, and is the co-author of the best-selling The Well-Trained Mind and the groundbreaking elementary grammar text First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind. She lives in Charles City, Virginia.