Step-by-Step Sentences, Book One (Read-Aloud Edition) Sample
 
Ages 6-8, chronological age or skill level
 
The “progressive” approach leaves beginning writers ill-prepared. This series combines classical copybook, grammar rules, and composition into on carefully sequenced series of explicit instruction, so students can practice early writing skills with confidence.
 
To complete this workbook you will need the books included in the Simply Classical Writing Book One: Read-Aloud Companion Set:
Wynken, Blynken, & Nod by Eugene Field
Seven Little Postmen by Margaret Wise Brown
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats by Ann Earle
How People Learned to Fly by Fran Hodgkins
The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown
The Reasons for Seasons by Gail Gibbons
The Planets by Gail Gibbons
A Time to Keep by Tasha Tudor
The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons
Biggest, Strongest, Fastest by Steve Jenkins
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
Christmas Around the World by Emily Kelley
Saint Nicholas: The Real Story of the Christmas Legend by Julie Stiegemeyer
Animal Tales CD told by Jim Weiss
Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton
Groundhog Day! by Gail Gibbons
A-B-See by Elizabeth Doyle
The Frogs and Toads All Sang by Arnold Lobel
How a House Is Built by Gail Gibbons
How do Birds Find Their Way? by Roma Gans
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
A Children’s Anthology of Poems & Lullabies illustrated by K. J. Kahn
Norman the Doorman by Don Freeman
Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran
The Big Snow by Berta and Elmer Hader
 
This book is also available as a Bible Story Edition (requires only the Child’s Garden of Bible Stories, which is included in Simply Classical Level B).