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Posted: Sept 23 2010 at 9:00pm \| IP Logged

I am looking at Kolbe's Elementary Literature and am a little confused. If I purchase the $150 Lesson Plans do I also need the $30 Study Guides? The Student version, also?

I cannot tell if the $150 includes everything or if I need to purchase each one.

Thanks in advance,

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Posted: Sept 23 2010 at 10:14pm \| IP Logged

Hi Tracey,

It is a little confusing...

The Lesson/Course plans include:

* book report format
* book report sample
* explanation of literary devices

...and... for each book

* day-to-day breakdown of what to read
* brief chapter summaries for teacher
* weekly written assignment topics
* teacher key for written assignment topics
* final 'exam'
* final exam answer key

The Study Guides include:

* comprehension and literary device questions
* teacher key for comp/lit. dev. questions
* each chapter has vocabulary words to look up (some chapters have none, a few, or lots)
* vocabulary booklet (all vocab words for each book, set up dictionary style)

It does add up, but it is designed for grades 4-6, so 3 years worth of work! If you have any other questions, let me know.

Hope that is helpful

Emily.

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Posted: Sept 24 2010 at 7:57am \| IP Logged

Thank you Emily. That was VERY helpful.

About how much time/week is required if you follow their plans?

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Posted: Sept 24 2010 at 8:29am \| IP Logged

I think it really depends on the child and also the book you are studying. For eg; The Boxcar Children is much easier than The Hobbit.

We generally do Lit three times per week, so we take longer than the suggested schedule to complete each book.

I think for most books, it is set out:

Mon, Tues, Wed - read assigned chapters and do questions, vocab work
Thurs - work on written assignment

In the last week of your schedule you do the final exam and book report.

However, we also don't do everything for everybook we study. We aim to study two books per quarter. One book I may just get them to read the book from front to back and write a book report only. For the second book, we concentrate on comp. questions and written assignments.

As an eg: Saint Dominic, Week 1 on Monday, they schedule to read chapters 1-3 and do those ch. questions.

I guess I've never really timed how long my dc spend on doing Lit.

Emily

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Posted: Oct 05 2010 at 6:42pm \| IP Logged

My ds is in 4th grade and just starting the Elemtary Lit course. He does it 5 days a week, at the pace suggested by the lesson plans and probably spends between 10-20 minutes per day (this is based on only 2 books so far) on the daily work (answering questions). This doesn't include the actual reading. I have him do the reading ahead of time (not during school hours), which is easy because he loves to read (otherwise he'd just get carried away and read all morning).

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