First Language Lessons Level 3 Student Workbook – Level 3 Student Workbook: 0

This is a well-planned, thorough grammar book for young children who are beginning to write independently. Each lesson is clearly laid out, it is repetitive but that helps to reinforce each point. As each lesson is short then the repetition is not tedious but helps the child remember the rule. My 7 year old is working through it easily and it is improving his spelling and sentence building skills.

What I needed to homeschool my son. He is year 7. These authors are brilliant, I use most of their books. Seller posted this on time. High 5 stars. Justine

We love first language lessons. As home schoolers we have been through book one and two. It's a fantastic resource. Very old fashioned and repetitive. But we love the style. My 7 year has learnt all the definitions for English grammar and it also encourages learning poems by heart ( part 1 and 2)

Great book

First Language Lessons is a great, scripted lesson series of books to teach children grammar. Level 1 and 2 are verbal lessons for children will a small amount of dictation at the end of each lesson but this level 3 book is a workbook for the child to write their answers and practice grammar. The lessons are all scripted so it is easy to use and this workbook is laid out in a simple way, giving children a small number of exercises on each page. There are often guidelines for writing sentences, helping the child with handwriting. The lessons are not super fun or exciting but they will give your child a good grounding in basic grammar (nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, conjunctions and much more). A large amount of this book teaches the child to diagram sentences.

excellent + thank you

Be sure to buy the teacher guide-- I didn't know that! You read from the teacher book as the child reads along and does the exercises in his/her book. At first I didn't like this method at all. It seemed to condescend to the child. But when I asked my third grader, she said she likes the grammar lessons! So we kept going and eventually I came to like it too, very much so. We have both learned so much about the English language, parts of speech, and diagramming sentences. They don't teach this material in elementary schools this way anymore, but I do think it's important for developing strong writers and readers. We did not get through all 100 lessons this year but I think that's okay; it took me most of the school year to learn to do these lessons efficiently, and for my daughter to develop the maturity to focus through them. In addition to the grammar (parts of speech, diagramming sentences), there is dictation, memorization of passages of literature, extension activities, and optional follow-ups. In short lessons each day, I feel my daughter got so much information, and the way you keep coming back to review it, it's great for their retention. I'm glad for this program.

This program is an excellent introduction to grammar. I just bought the workbook for my third son and am excited to work through the program with him. My older sons have an excellent foundation in grammar because of using this series. Highly recommend it! Do be warned that the mom has to work one-on-one with this program. It takes us 15-20 minutes per lesson.

Beautiful, gentle, and thorough program. I am enjoying using it with my daughter.

I wish I had purchased this last year. I know some things seem really basic in this book, and the repetition called for in the exercises may seem extreme - especially for a really bright (high IQ) child like mine. But this works! She is so smart that she doesn't LEARN HOW TO STUDY from other programs - this teaches her how to study! Also, you are free to skip some of the repetition if needed...I still like it because it teaches my child how to memorize things that can, in fact, be boring to her. I know homeschooling is suppose to be more interesting than school text books, but our kids need to learn that some parts of learning simply require committing facts to memory, even if we don't really find it very exciting. I have used Winston Grammar, which is very bare bones grammar...not a bad program, but it leaves a lot of details with blanket explanations, and I found myself (very skilled in English grammar- but from college days) struggling to explain the finer points to my daughter. I like First Language Lessons, and I also love, love , love having the lessons completely laid out for me!

nice product