Sample Practice: Level 1
Level 1 begins gently but takes your child through a wide range of grammar and punctuation sentences quickly, with minimal kill and drill and an emphasis on actual writing.
Practice 1.3.2: Captions 1 asks kids to apply what they learned in our video lesson on foundational sentence grammar by writing declarative sentences to describe a picture and labeling the subjects, predicates, and verbs of their sentences. Bright kids hate rote learning and pick up grammar concepts quickly when they see how the concepts apply to their own writing. Most of our practices also include multiple-choice questions that test your child’s comprehension of a topic in the lesson, as well as either an editing problem or some other way of looking at the concepts. Your child can try to answer the question multiple times, learning as they go. Kids then move the sleeping cat at the end of the practice to check the answers and explanations.
This practice is early on in Level 1, which progresses from writing phrases to writing sentences to writing five to 10 sentences (plus editing or some other complementary task) over the course of the level. We gradually ramp up the amount of writing we ask your child to do to help them build up their physical and mental stamina. Almost all of the writing your child will do is storytelling or creative expression in Level 1. It’s in Level 2 that kids ease into analytical writing.
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