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BookShark Language Arts 1 Package
Customize your package with the Customize tab (below).
Customize your package with the Customize tab (below).
- Description
- What's Included
- Samples
- Consumables
- Customize
- FAQs
Teach your children with confidence!
You can confidently teach your child as we equip you with weekly overviews, word-for-word instruction scripts and rubrics to ensure your child is grasping concepts. Your Instructor's Guide includes the following resources for teaching Language Arts 1:
- A 36-Week, 4-Day schedule designed to save one day a week for co-ops, music lessons, sports, field trips or other extra-curricular activities
- Weekly Overviews
- Student Activity Sheets
- Separate parent instructions, answers & definitions
- Rubrics to help you evaluate more subjective activities
- Instructor's Guide Resources and New User Information
- And much more!
Your children will love learning language arts naturally...
With BookShark's Language Arts program, your students will enjoy learning with the "natural method." They will learn good writing from good models, just the way many great writers (such as Benjamin Franklin) taught themselves. Daily experience and practice are the keys to this well-paced schedule of connected writing activities. As your students progress through Levels A-F they advance from basic writing to analysis, while reinforcing what they learn from the books you read together.
The Customize tab provides an option to purchase the Level 1 Readers and other items.
The following OPTIONAL supplements are scheduled in the guide but not required.
If you are unsure which reading level is right for your child please check out our Quick Reading Assessment.
Since our Readers are integrated with our Language Arts program, we recommend that you choose the same level of Language Arts as Readers. Please note that many young students read at a higher level than their written Language Arts ability. We recommend choosing the lower level of the two until their abilities catch up. You may also look through the Scope & Sequence and the 3-Week Samples for our Language Arts Instructor's Guides before you make a final decision on which level to choose. Feel free to use the assignments in the 3-week samples as a way to evaluate which Language Arts level matches your student's skills.
One Set of Consumables is included with the package. To add consumables for another student please click here.
Is this the correct Language Arts/Reader level for my child?
We offer multiple Readers/Language Arts levels for our Level K-2 packages to accommodate advanced and struggling learners. Choosing a Readers/Language Arts level that is appropriate for your child will help ensure that there are no gaps in their knowledge.
If you are unsure which Readers level would be best for your child, please have them take our Quick Reading Assessment. It is very important to match the Readers level to your child’s reading ability, and the assessment will help you find the most comfortable fit for them. We encourage you to be sure that they are reading fluidly, not just decoding the words. Our goal is to help you instill a love of reading and learning in your child. If they are working too hard to decode the words, they may not enjoy the stories and the reading may become frustrating.
Please note that many young students read at a higher level than their Language Arts ability. We recommend that you look through the Scope & Sequence and the 3-Week Samples for our Language Arts Instructor's Guides before you make a final decision on which level will be best for your child.
Feel free to use the assignments in the samples as a way to test which Language Arts level will match your student's skills. If your student's Language Arts skill is slightly behind their Reading levels, you may want to consider choosing your Readers based on your student's Language Arts ability. Our Readers are engaging and fun for students of all levels!
Can I use this package for both of my children?
If your children are working at the same skill level, they can share a Language Arts program. Please note that you will need a set of the Language Arts 1 Activity Sheets for each additional student (one set is included with the Instructor's Guide). You may also need additional copies of the optional Explode the Code 1, 2, 3 Set and/or Handwriting Without Tears 1
If your children are working at different skill levels, please choose a Language Arts option that is appropriate for each student.
For more information on BookShark, please see our FAQs page.
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