Friday, October 22, 2010

What to do after First Language Lessons?

We loved First Language Lessons by Susan Wise Bauer and used these books for four years.  After we finished them all, we switched to Rod & Staff for grammar.  But this curriculum had no poetry memorization.   I found out about Andrew Pudewa's Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization and we have been following it, in theory anyway, for the last two years.  However, many of the poems are the same and the charts in this new curriculum don't coincide with what we have done.  So I made my own schedule and put it in an Excel document, which you can download here.   


Pick your poems.  Work on them one by one.  As one  is memorized, start another, but recite the first one everyday as well.  As soon as the student can say it in his/her sleep, have him/her recite it every other day and then every third day as more and more poems are memorized.  Don't hurry, take your time and have fun.










  

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