Language Lessons for a Living Education Level 5 Course Description

Built upon the Master Books Method, this course offers your elementary students a fun, effective, and proven language arts program. Students move beyond pages of text and memorization to make real-world connections. This exciting and proven series will help guide your learner toward mastery of reading, grammar, vocabulary, and the mechanics of communication and writing.

This character-building, story-based approach harmoniously blends Charlotte Mason's ideas with traditional learning pedagogies, offering a holistic approach to language arts education rooted in Christian values for the modern homeschool student. Using observation and reading comprehension through poems, stories, and real books as the foundation, your student will continue building paragraph writing skills. By the end of the course, students should be able to write various types of paragraphs comfortably.

The scope and sequence, daily schedule, and other teacher aids genuinely make this an open-and-go course.  Additional copy work, fun games, and activities in the back of the book allow the teacher to customize this course to meet the precise needs of the student and include:

• Assessment Chart

• Recommended book list

• Enjoyable games for practice

• Spelling word lists

• Copywork study aids

• Grammar study sheets

A helpful and detailed daily schedule:

• DAY 1: Special features focus on a short story, picture study, poem, or proverb

• DAY 2 & 3: Learn to apply grammar rules effectively and strengthen writing skills

• DAY 4: Enjoy a short biblical account with narration, sketching, and verse memorization

• DAY 5: Improve spelling, expand vocabulary usage, and master writing skills

Required Course Materials: 

This course has an integrated reading component that uses:

•  101 Favorite Stories from the Bible

This required book is available from Master Books.  

Independent Reading icons are a reminder to assign books from the family library for additional practice and to foster a love of reading. A list of suggested Master Books titles can be found at the back of the course.

Is my student ready to start Language Lessons for a Living Education Level 5?

Students are encouraged to take the rules and best practices and make them their own through skilled use. Young writers also begin to learn the nuances of communication, organization, and techniques to effectively share their thoughts through the written word.

Begin at this level if the student:

•  Has completed Language Lessons for a Living Education 4 or another equivalent language arts course

• Reads independently and can retell a story without prompts.

• Recognizes many spelling patterns, but he/she may not know the spelling rules.

• Understands sentence and paragraph structure and can write five sentences

• Has been introduced to basic grammar concepts, such as proper nouns, nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adjectives

If the student is not ready to begin this level, we recommend starting with Language Lessons for a Living Education Level 4.