LLATL Tan Student Activity Book : Chariot Press, Education, Family, Christian, Homeschool, Books

$36.00

With literature as a basis, this innovative program uses an integrated approach as it takes your students through all the activities needed to learn reading, grammar, vocabulary, spelling, creative writing, library skills, research, study skills, and higher-order thinking skills.

Everything you need in one book: student instruction, a place for writing, and a tool for easy record-keeping. Allows for more independent student work and less work for the teacher.

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Teacher Book features:
1. 36 weekly lessons divided into easy-to-use daily plans.
2. Book Studies:  reinforce comprehension and reading skills, expand vocabulary.
  3. Everyday Words: taken from literature to teach grammar, spelling,
       and writing through dictation, activities and games.
4. Library Skills: using wide variety of resources for research and writing activities.
5.  Root Words and Suffix Studies: to create deeper understanding of the English Language.
  6. Review Activities follow most lessons providing additional skill practice.
  7. Teacher Notes and answers are in the margin of the Teacher book.

Additional creative exercises that expand knowledge and skills:
1. Word Puzzles: reinforce vocabulary training with crossword and other puzzles.
2. Analogy Study: step by step instruction on important concept relationships.
3. Logic and Reasoning: activities and excercises requiring abstract reasoning.
  Answers for these Enrichment Activities are located in the Tan Teacher Book.

Sequential order of Reading Books used for Book Studies in this program:
1.  Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, by Jean Lee Latham
2.  The Bronze Bow, by Elizabeth George Speare
3.  Big Red, by Jim Kjelgaard
4.  The Horse and His Boy, by C.S. Lewis

The publisher states that the Student Activity Book should not be used without the Teacher Book.

Catalog/Product Line:	Common Sense Press
Subject/Theme:	Christian; Creative Writing; Critical Thinking; Grammar; Language Arts; Library Skills; Poetry; Reading; Research; Spelling; Vocabulary
Author(s):	Diane Welch
Reading Age/Level:	13yo
Gender:	Female; Male

Historical Timeline:
Geographical Setting:	America; Worldwide
Date written:	1998
Series:	LLATL

ISBN-10:	1880892219
ISBN-13:	9781880892213
Current Print Date:	2005
Product Type:	Book
Format:	Paperback
Item/Page Count; Ship Size; Wt:	356 pgs; H:28 cms x W:21.5 cms x D:2.5 cms; 1.02 kgs

Scope & Sequence:

The Tan Book - Australian 8th Grade

Spelling
adding suffixes -able,ance,ant,ence,ent,ible,sion,tion - adding prefixes - compound words - contractions - copy words - double consonants - plurals of irregular words - plural rules - spelling rules for: ck,dg,ear,er,gn,ie,igh,ir,kn,ou,ough,ow,ur,wor,wr - spelling rules for changing: f to v, y to i, - studying words - syllabication

Reading
a Book Study on: Carry on, Mr. Bowditch, The Bronze Bow, Big Red, The Horse and His Boy - alliteration - autobiography - biography - bound base - choral reading - climax - comprehension - conflict - context clues - couplet - dialect - dialogue - discussing content - duolog - end rhyme - etymology - exposition - fable - falling action - fiction - first person - foreshadowing - free base - internal rhyme - irony - mood - narrator - news story - personification - plot - poetry - point of view - prose - reciting poetry - repetition - resolution - rhyme scheme - rising action - second person speech - stanza - syllables - third person - topic sentences - triplet - vocabulary - words analogy

Grammar
adjectives - adverbs - antecedents - antonyms - apostrophes - articles - being verbs - capitalization - colon - commas - common nouns - comparative adjectives - complete predicate - complete sentences - complete subjects - compound sentences - compound subjects - compound verbs - compound words - conjunctions - contraction - declarative sentences - dependent clause - direct address - direct object - direct quotation - double negative - exclamation marks - exclamatory sentences - fragment - helping verbs - homonyms - hyphen - imperative sentences - independent clause - interjections - interrogative sentences - irregular verbs - linking verbs - nouns - object of the preposition - parts of speech - periods - possessive nouns - possessive pronouns - predicate adjectives - prefix - preposition - prepositional phrase - principal parts of verbs - pronouns - proper nouns - question marks - quotation marks - regular verbs - semicolon - simile - simple predicate - simple subjects - subject/verb agreement - suffixes - superlative adjectives - syllables - synonyms - titles - transitional words - underlining - verbs - verbs phrase - verbs tense

Composition
advertisement - bibliography - biography - business letter - caricature - character sketch - circle words picture - closing paragraph - closing sentences- creative writing - dialogue - duolog - essay - figurative language - first draft - first person - friendly letter - journal - main idea - mood - news story - opening paragraph - outline - paragraph - paraphrase - personification - plagiarism - poetry - prose - research - similes - summary - supporting detail - supporting sentences - thesis statement - titles - topic - topic sentences - types of sentences - writing a fable - writing dialogue - writing instructions

Research and Study Skills
alphabetical order - Bible translation - Caldecott Award - Dewey decimal system - dictionary - encyclopedia - etymology - illustration - interview - library - map skills - Newbery Award - news story - organizing thought - research - sequence - thesaurus - timeline

High Order Thinking Skills
analogies - circle word pictures - conducting a research - context clues - giving directions - memorization

Creative Expression
creative writing - oral presentation - poetry

Penmanship
copying passages - final drafts

Publisher: Common Sense Press