Language, Reading and Spelling

Trinity and Kyler are both in ABeka Language Arts programs.  Trinity does regular reading comprehension activities and quizzes, both oral and multiple choice.  She sometimes has to reread portions of the story or poem to answer correctly but, all in all, her comprehension is good. She is reading at or slightly above her grade level.

Right now Trinity is reading through, "Liberty Tree",  that includes short stories and portions of well known novels.    The stories tell about real people and fictional characters who had high moral standards and achieved great things.  She was particularly interested in the life of Isaac Newton.

Trinity reads stories with comprehension quizzes from  "Adventures in Other Lands," that she reads for speed as well.   She has also read about Tom Thomson, a great Canadian painter, and she reads novels we get from the library every Thursday.  Some of these include:  "The Boxcar Children" and "Geronimo Stilton".   Trinity reads and listens to stories on the RazKids website.

Kyler has read through two ABeka grade 2 readers this term.  These include poems, short stories, songs and scripture.  He does oral quizzes at the end of the day's reading and he is doing very well with his comprehension.  Kyler still reverses b's and d's but much less often.  He does read through words he has never seen before well, using his excellent phonics and comprehension skills.  Kyler just finished "No Longer a Nobody," his first chapter book with 55 pages.

Kyler also loves to use RazKids and he uses National Geographic books that use an electronic pen to read out facts about God's creations.

 Trinity is studying maxims written by famous people.  The above is an example of how she has learned the truth of one of these.

Trinity's punctuation has improved quite a bit this term.  She does need to work on her run together sentences but she can correct them on her own when I tell her there is one in a particular paragraph.

Kyler does well with his language arts.  His cursive is coming along well.  His spelling paper below has many of the most difficult connections in it, though I think he did very well considering.

We have been working on the below suffixes and prefixes.  He has a good grasp on what a root word is.  He does still have to think hard about when to add 's' or 'es'.  He also needs help to remember when to double a final consonant, but he is improving and does his work without complaint...which isn't nothing :)