Simply Classical Curriculum: Level 2 Consumable Set

Simply Classical Copybook: Book Two, Manuscript

Ages 5-8 (chronological age or skill level)

Copybook is a time-honored activity in which students copy Scripture, maxims, poetry, and other literature selections. Through the Simply Classical Copybook series, students strengthen penmanship, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, and memory. Students learn habits of accuracy, neatness, and patience. Even more, they receive truth and comfort from Holy Scripture. Shorter selections help accommodate for writing difficulties while providing the full benefits of copybook exercises for all beginning writers.

Core Skills Phonics 2 Sample

Sample

Ages 6-8 (chronological age or skill level)

This series gives your struggling writer an incremental, multi-sensory approach with an oral/aural emphasis. Each week includes targeted Word Study exercises to promote linguistic awareness, cognitive flexibility, and improved spelling skills.

The Rod & Staff Grade 1 Math Student Book (Part 2) continues with Lessons 86-170. Like the Rod & Staff Grade 1 Math Student Book (Part 1), this book continues the mastery approach method when teaching mathematics.

Blossoming readers need more than practice; they need to discover the riches of a good story. With simplified exercises in word study, composition, and oration, these delightful guides provide a joyful introduction to children’s literature. Teach essential language arts skills, as your students encounter stories of tenderness, bravery, and kindness. Created especially for struggling learners or students with special needs, these adaptations of the Memoria Press originals are each subtitled “A Guide to Reading Deeply and Writing Skillfully through a Collection of Four Stories.”

Step-by-Step Sentences, Book One (Bible Story Edition) Sample

The "progressive" approach leaves beginning writers ill-prepared. This series combines classical copybook, grammar rules, and composition into one carefully sequenced series of explicit instruction, so students can practice early writing skills with confidence.

To complete this program, you will need:

• A Child's Garden of Bible Stories
• Individual Lesson Plans for Simply Classical Level 2 Bible & Copybook OR the Simply Classical Curriculum Manual: Level 2

This book is also available as a Read-Aloud Edition.

New American Cursive 1 Sample
New American Cursive Classroom Work Samples

New American Cursive is an easy-to-follow resource for teaching beginning cursive. It presents simplified letter forms, using multi-sensory methods to aid in the learning of motor skills necessary to write well. Developed by Iris Hatfield, with over 35 years of experience in the handwriting field, the book improves the process of teaching handwriting and allows students to start at a younger age.

New American Cursive 1:

• Designed with the first grader in mind
• Unnecessary strokes are eliminated; NAC alphabet has 26 fewer strokes than the top three most common cursive programs.
• Letter forms are simplified but retain the classic form for legibility.
• NAC natural right slant is easier for beginners and left-handers. If the slant is too far right, it can be difficult for lefties. Writing absolutely vertically is tiring and can slow down the writing.
• NAC program was created to be simple, clear, and effective. It focuses on accuracy and increasing legibility.
• A teaching guide is included. It takes students only twenty minutes of their day to practice in their NAC book.

Sample

One question we hear repeatedly is how to get more worksheets to practice New American Cursive writing. We try to put extra sheets in our books, but it never seems to be enough. Our Cursive Practice Sheets I book includes pages for practicing each cursive letter, Scripture copywork, and blank practice sheets. Since the most important objective of the New American Cursive program is mastery, the more your student is able to practice, the better!