Writing Tales Level Two Student Workbook

Amy Olsen has produced an awesome home school product that encompasses writing and grammar for 3rd - 5th graders.   Level Two (for 4th  or  5th  graders) has 30 writing lessons, each one five days long,  that include lessons on four different kinds of sentences, all eight parts of speech, paragraph definitions in fictional writing, sentence combining, and ten different ways to start sentences. Practice is also included in handwriting (with copy work), vocabulary including synonyms, and spelling.  The students are eased into key word outlining throughout the course.   Plenty of games (can be played with just teacher and student or in groups) for review and practice are included.     Teach your child in the classical style and have fun at the same time. Based on the first level of the ancient progymnasmata  (writing exercises used by the Greeks where students best learn to write their own by copying well-written models first.  At the same time, they learn the mechanics of the English lan