Phonics, word roots, sentences, first Latin and telling back stories.
Year 1 course: 32 lessons. Begins with “The storyteller's voice: Kipling”; ends with “Capstone: The Road Not Taken”.
Year 1 course: 32 lessons. Begins with “The complete sentence”; ends with “Editing and the year in review”.
Year 1 course: 32 lessons. Begins with “Words have parts”; ends with “Year-end celebration”.
Year 1 course: 32 lessons. Begins with “What rhetoric is: clear and true”; ends with “Capstone: the complete speaker”.
Reading is the key that opens every other subject. A child who reads well can teach herself almost anything. Writing lets us share what we think, clearly, with anyone.
For a pre-reader: hear the first sound in words, match letters to pictures, trace each letter, find rhymes and blend short words. Everything is spoken. No reading needed.
Blend sounds into words, build words, magic e, digraphs and vowel teams, syllables and compound words, then read and match sentences.
First Latin: numbers, words with pictures, English words that come from Latin, greetings, and Latin we still use every day.
Latin and Greek word roots, complete sentences, capitals and periods, sentence imitation, nouns and verbs, and a narration helper.
Grade 3–6 passages: main idea, find the evidence, inference, words in context, story elements, nonfiction features and poetry.
The 8 parts of speech, subjects and predicates, clauses, sentence diagramming, tenses and punctuation.
Great poems from the public domain: meter, rhyme and imagery, then memorize and recite with a calm line-by-line method.
Spelling rules and word structure for a strong reader, then joined (cursive) handwriting traced with a finger or stylus.
A graded list of classic books, with a log of titles, pages and a short narration for each reading.
Levels: Foundations (ages 3–5), Level 2 (grades 1–2), Level 3 (grades 3–4), Level 4–5 (grades 4–6). Every game starts with 👀 See it, a short picture lesson.