Learning from the Masters: Copy Work Lessons for Spelling, Grammar, and Writing – Janis Scott – Living Books For Life

This s a method of teaching kids to write by having them learn from the experts- people such as R.L. Stevenson, Edith Nesbitt, Lousia May Alcott, Arthur Ransome, and friends! I’ve been long acquainted with their work. So why would I subject my kids to boring worksheets or my own feeble writing when I have experts at my fingertips?

This book makes it easy for you. I’ve selected what I believe are great passages to learn from. Some of the topics students will naturally learn as they go through through this book are:

• Proper use of a comma, apostrophe, colon, semi-colon, and quotation marks
• When to use capital letters such as ‘Father’ or small letters such as ‘my father’
• hw to write out a conversation
• how to write in past, present, and future tense
• A great variety of new vocabulary words
• how to writes the name of a book
• commonly mis-spelled words