A list of past book links to Project Gutenberg (You're Welcome) July 2007 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, 1818-1848 Writings by Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865 June 2007 G. A. Henty … [Read more...]
Bad, Worse, Worst
So I am working hard on my website, I do that for hours every day, and my eyes fall on this quote of mine at the Homeschool Planner home page: Don't underestimate your children's ability to model … [Read more...]
Jensen’s Format Writing Review and Syllabus Updated
The Jensen's Format Writing pages have been at donnayoung.org for a couple of years or so and recently I made changes to the review and the syllabus pages. I still have work to do that is related to … [Read more...]
Wordsmith Review
A few days ago, I added a review for the writing curriculum Wordsmith, A creative writing course for young people By Janie B. Cheaney, for Grades 7 - 9. The review is in the English section of … [Read more...]
Lessons in Alphabetizing, Dictionary Skills
While working on my older content, I revised three pages and added a fourth page in the area of teaching children Alphabetizing and Dictionary Skills. The new page, Lessons in Alphabetizing Words, … [Read more...]
Writing Strands
Two days ago I looked through my son's writing book and was moved to ramble a review. I wrote a short bit about the writing curriculum that we used during our first three years of homeschooling, … [Read more...]
The Journalist’s Creed
I first came across The Journalist's Creed January 28, 2005. It left an impression on me. The Journalist's Creed was written by Walter Williams (July 2, 1864 - July 29, 1935), the founder of the … [Read more...]
Timed Writing
When my children were younger, I had them do something that I called timed writing. I'm not sure what I can say about it to recommend it except to say generically -- It helped them. They started out … [Read more...]
Easy Grammar
Easy Grammar series by Wanda Phillips uses the prepositional approach to evaluating sentences. I used Easy Grammar for my children's grammar lessons during the early to middle years, and I found it … [Read more...]
Natural Speller
This entry is in reference to Natural Speller by Kathryn Stout. If you have used Natural Speller and want to comment about the book, please do so below. My introductory comments from Natural … [Read more...]
Parallelism in Writing
This is a small portion of the article, please go to my website to read the entire article at: Parallelism in Writing As a rule, two or more sentence-elements that have the same logical office … [Read more...]
