Language Lessons for a Living Education Level 4 Course Description

Colorful and endearing pictures enhance this fun and engaging story-based approach. Students will build on and reinforce essential communication skills as they achieve proficiency in grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and reading comprehension.

Written with a Charlotte Mason influence but designed for modern homeschoolers, students will enjoy poems, hymns, picture studies, and faith-growing stories to inspire detailed and descriptive paragraphs. Activities include memorizing poems, Scripture, and the books of the Bible, creating a dictionary, gentle narration and copy work, and critical thinking games to hone and apply their writing and reading skills creatively. Each quarter has a dependable pattern, but with five stories, two picture studies (one Bible-based), and two poems (one Psalm), students will always look forward to something new! 

Writing stamina is built up gradually. By the end of the course, students should be able to write a four to five-sentence paragraph comfortably. Additional copy work, fun games, and activities are in the back for extra practice of key grammar concepts and spelling, making the course easily adaptable to meet the needs of each student.

The scope and sequence, daily schedule, and other teacher aids genuinely make this an open-and-go course.  Additional resources 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 independent reading, poem, picture study, select Bible verses

• DAY 2 & 3: Grammar & punctuation practice

• DAY 4: Reading from a children’s Bible, memorizing, sketching

• DAY 5: Spelling, vocabulary

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 4?

Student will review previous grammar concepts and continue with what they learned in Level 3. Includes noun types, verb tenses, mechanics, and composition. They will review and refine lessons from Level 3 in addition to learning new skills.

Begin at this level if the student:

•  Has completed Language Lessons for a Living Education 3 or another equivalent language arts course

•  Can narrate or “tell back” the details of stories

•  Recognizes many spelling patterns, including vowels, digraphs, and diphthongs

•  Has an understanding of sentence structure and basic paragraph structure and the physical stamina to write 4-5 sentences

If the student is not ready to begin this level, we recommend starting with Language Lessons for a Living Education Level 3.