Spelling Wisdom Book 5 Author:Sonya Shafer Learn today?s 6,000 most frequently used words presented in the writings of great men and women of history! Now you can have the confidence that you?re teaching the words your student needs to know, using the Charlotte Mason method of prepared dictation. — Easy ? Teaches spelling and punctuation in just a few minutes each week. — Thorough ? Incorp... more »orates more than 12,500 words, including 6,000 most frequently used words in the English language.
Effective ? Uses the tried-and-true method of prepared dictation, which Charlotte Mason endorsed.
Compiled from more than 170 quality sources, including:
Excerpts from more than 45 Literary Classics, such as Aesop?s Fables, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Black Beauty, David Copperfield, The Deerslayer, Freckles, Les Miserables, Little Women, Robinson Crusoe, The Secret Garden, The Story of My Life, and The Wind in the Willows.
Speeches and quotes of famous men, such as Sir Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, and George Washington.
Charlotte Mason quotes and excerpts from Ourselves.
Letters written by famous men, such as Beethoven, Seneca, Mozart, and Abraham Lincoln.
More than 60 Poems, written by such poets as Stevenson, Wordsworth, Emerson, Longfellow, and Holmes.
More than 20 Scripture passages.
Excerpts from Shakespeare?s plays, plus several Sonnets.« less