design your homeschool: putting components together (Language Arts)

I said before that I'm an engineer and I've always excelled at math in school language not so much I am not afraid or embarrassed to say that I did not learn how to comprehend what I was reading until I went to summer school in the 5th grade. And quite frankly I was a little nervous about teaching my children how to read because even though I grew up with hooked on phonics it really didn't help me at all. For my first child I used baby can read books and I'm headed happy to say that he was able to read by mistake a few words by the time he was two. But that was kind of like just sitting down in front of the TV and you know go through some picture books I needed more than that once he got older. So once I started taking it seriously on how to teach my child to read I stumbled upon the best thing on the planet Denise Eide's book: Uncovering the Logic of English. This book was actually so perfect I think it had a passage in here that said there was another engineer that had the same issue that I did and considering my logical brain it makes so much sense breaking things down into 33 rules as opposed to all the rules I learned in school that just confused the crap out of me. And honestly I think it would help all children to learn how to read in some form or fashion in this way because phonetics definitely helped me when I was younger. 

Before Denise had published her curriculum foundations and all of that for uncovering or learning the logic of English I was infatuated with I can't even think of the name of the curriculum right now but it was another curriculum that basically had a similar premise but it was focused on sight words I didn't like that at all and Denise has made it so simple with her curriculum for children that I can't live without it I don't know how anybody else would live without it it is so complete and comprehensive I think this is how the world should go moving forward. You can make your own decision but honestly if you were to use my curriculum that I've set out I think it would be so easy and so simple the lessons are short and they're so complete my children loved her writing program so much that my oldest child actually fell in love with calligraphy. So with that being said this broke down learning how to read in such a way that made so much sense to me I don't have to worry about remembering a thousand different exceptions all I need to learn are the fundamental rules and of course it kind of goes into the fact that English is a melting pot of languages. Greek latin Spanish all those languages mixed again to make English which is so true German all of it just mixed in we have words from all over the world in the English language. And that is why I wanted to have a curriculum that is a world view of History language reading writing all of it mixed together. From a business point of view communication is very important and written communication is very important as well so after I had discovered how I was going to teach them how to read and write I needed to figure out how I was going to teach them how to communicate and even though I had classes that taught me that like I said I was not very good at it until about the 7th grade. And if you're going by my blog of which I am dictating into a voice to text program, judge me if you want but you know what copywriting editing all that good stuff we can worry about that later. Right now my focus is getting this information out there to help as many people as I possibly can. Now so when my children got to the point where they were writing I went back to the well trained mine riding with ease which starts with a very early concept of teaching a child how to form grammatically correct sentences at a very young age and it threw in some picture appreciation as well which I loved so they could communicate what they were saying without them having to communicate what they were reading so it helps.

And with this lovely book: writing with ease, it taught them the fundamentals.you don't just need to be able to know how to read and then start writing you also need to learn how to put that grammar into practice so although Denise Eide's book was fundamental it's nice to have some extra to go along with it to supplement those lessons in a fun and engaging way. Of course I had to stick with the well-trained mind because why deviate from something that works so well.

Learn grammar in practice with first language lessons. 

Denise's logic of English theory on how to recognize letters, the sounds of this letters, putting those letters and sounds into words, and the rules associated with how to write grammatically, and how to communicate  at a young age. Once my children got older and grasp logical thinking we must get back to creative thinking.

classical academic press is the best thing for creative writing but it also includes logical analysis of creative features I guess that's a good way to put it teaches you how to do things in a way that is fluid and it makes sense and allows you to be creative on so many levels that I wish I had been taught this in school.