Maximize student vocabulary development for long-range success in school and beyond with lessons that focus on applying word-study strategies to reading comprehension, thinking skills, and writing. This resource meets individual skill needs through built-in assessments of student progress and provides practice in important dictionary skills and for standardized tests.

"MCP "Plaid" Phonics" Level A helps students become fluent readers. Activities help students develop spelling (encoding), recognize words in context, and use phonics in word-building and personal writing. It provides teachers with a direct model for integrating phonics and reading through reading activities.

Modern Curriculum Press "Plaid" Phonics celebrates over 50 years of successfully helping more than 55 million children learn to read. Its proven scope and sequence, along with the abundance of practice, review, and application of skills, ensures comprehensive coverage and supports best practices in phonics instruction.

This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of education'he trivium'hich organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind: the elementary school "grammar stage," the middle school "logic stage," and the high school "rhetoric stage." Using the trivium as your model, you'll be able to instruct your child in all levels of reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects. Newly revised and updated, The Well-Trained Mind includes detailed book lists with complete ordering information; up-to-date listings of resources, publications, and Internet links; and useful contacts.

A critical volume for the homeschooling community that helps parents make informed choices regarding learning styles and curriculum