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Wheatheartaca
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Posted: June 08 2013 at 12:28pm \| IP Logged

This is new to us and I'm very drawn to learning grammar and flow from copywork.

Can someone recommend a dictation workbook from good Catholic literature? We have been using LOG for my 2nd and 3rd grader but I want to drop that in place of LOG.

Thanks. Zi

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Posted: June 08 2013 at 1:03pm \| IP Logged

Laura Berquist's The Harp and the Laurel Wreath is a great resource to have on your shelf. It's an anthology of poetry for all levels, but each level also includes copywork and dictation selections drawn from sources like American Cardinal Readers, Hilda van Stockum books (the Mitchells and Bantry Bay series) and more. There are also scripture verses for memorization, copywork and dictation.

If you don't already own this book, I'd highly recommend it. We don't use it super-consistently -- I also pull selections from the psalmody and readings for the Liturgy of the Hours, plus reading the kids are doing (either read-alouds or independent reading). Both my younger kids (9 and 10) do the same copywork/dictation selections. I write them up on the whiteboard, and they write in their notebooks. I've also written a given child's copywork on the left-hand side of an open notebook, and they've written on the right-hand side.

Once you get in the groove, it's pretty easy to select copywork on the fly, because once you're thinking about it, you tend to encounter passages all over the place that suggest themselves.

I like Language of God, and those workbooks have been useful to us in the last couple of years, but I really think that copywork and dictation teach language in a far deeper and more lasting way -- what kids absorb seems to transfer into their own writing far more immediately (well, not *immediately,* as in today you do copywork, tomorrow you turn out fifty pages of perfect prose, but as in the child's acquiring an instinct for good writing that workbook exercises -- worthy though they can be -- don't seem to impart).

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Posted: June 08 2013 at 2:10pm \| IP Logged

I had my oldest boy copy poems then illustrate them. We used Poems from the Ark I believe it is called.

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