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).