Thursday we tie up any loose ends from the week’s lesson. Wednesday, we’ll do freewrites, which isn’t technically part of the guides. Things like this we write down in their notebook to remember them. Sometimes we will take notes on the pages following the copy work.įor instance, the other day we learned about conjunctions and we learned an acronym for remembering them: FANBOYS We check for neatness, spelling, punctuation, and any missed grammar. The kids copy their passage for the week. (Next year I think I will buy special subject notebooks for this.)

These notebooks are split into three chunks. On Monday, we grab our composition notebooks. Read more about our Brave Writer Lifestyle Routine. Language arts this year takes a lot less time. For more info, please refer to our disclosure statement.Īnd it worked amazingly! Here’s all the details, plus a video of exactly how we use the guides in our house…Ī post shared by Learning Well Community on at 9:53am PDT Affiliate links from Amazon or other programs are used on this website. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Learning Well LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. You ditched all the language arts workbooks for a whole school year?ĭon’t we need grammar books, spelling lists, and workbooks to do all these things?

See our curriculum details on the Learning Well Community Curriculum Directory.īut wait. And my kids also do a spelling list from a workbook about every three weeks or so. Now, just to clarify, we have added back in our favorite grammar workbooks, Easy Grammar, to use once a week or so.

The workbooks were nixed and replaced with our read alouds and Brave Writer Arrow and Boomerang guides. We did something crazy in our language arts a couple of years ago.

Using brave writer in small groups