Literature and Creative Writing

Put sentences and pictures in order; know and write what is happening in a picture.
Interpret pictures and imagine what someone is saying or doing.
Choose story endings; finish stories.
Answer questions and write sentences; write sentences with adjectives; read and write stories.

Literature and Creative Writing

Parts of a book including Table of Contents.
Tell what happened in a story; characters, plot, setting and order in a story; visualize setting and Characters; heroes and enemies in a story; tell when and where things happen.
Put instructions in order; follow directions.
Answer questions from pictures; recognize things that belong together;
How action words make writing more interesting; choosing the best answers and answer questions; write words that tell how, when and where; change "what kind" words to "how" words; decide "Which is…"; learn and write words that describe; write by answering who, what, when, where and why questions.
Rhyming words.
Write story titles and choose story endings; write another ending to a story; write about "What you would do if…"; think and write; unscramble a story and put it in the correct order; place pictures in order and write a story from the pictures;
Write a story report;
Learn about limericks.

Literature and Creative Writing

Opportunities for using imagination.
The Little Green Frog - Using a dictionary; think how things are the same or different; predict the end of a story; find phrases within sentences; make action words; use action words; follow directions; draw conclusions.
Saved at Sea - Write what is happening; look up words; learn about the dictionary and the alphabet; write a poem; find the main idea of a paragraph; learn how words can paint pictures in our minds.
The Red Rag Riddle - Learn about riddles; learn words that show contrast; read and find misspelled words; think what you know; learn about and write a summary; think how things go together; learn about news stories; learn about heroes and heroines.
Charlotte's Web - Follow directions; find the main idea in a paragraph; draw conclusions; remember and write what I have seen; think and write what I hear, see and smell; Learn about libraries; learn about biographies and autobiographies.
Children's Missionary Library - Learn about famous missionaries; learn to make word clusters; write a letter; do map work; write a sketch; learn about short stories.
Choice Stories for Children - Write a different ending to a story; find valuable lessons in stories; write an invitation; learn more about literature; learn about "alike" and "different"; learn about and write an anecdote.

Literature and Creative Writing

Read and examine six books.
Choice Stories for Children - Learn more about literature and writing creatively; learn about anecdotes and write an anecdote; use edit marks; setting, characters, plot and order in short stories; use the dictionary to find information; finding the main idea; learn about similes; study a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier.
North to Amaroqvik - Paint word pictures with similes and metaphors; the four kinds of conflict, or struggle, in stories; more about writing a summary; different ways to spell the long o sound; homophones; learn about and write anagrams; silent letters.
Heidi - Analogies; learn about a novel, a blurb, and a preface; cause and effect; alliteration; similes; learn about Switzerland; topic sentences and supporting sentences; nouns; personifications as a figure of speech; how quotation marks are used; write a book report.
Miracle at Camp Friendship - Synonyms and antonyms; point of view; answer thought questions; review homophones; writing summaries; use of edit marks; comparison and contrast; four kinds of conflict in stories; quotation marks; write a book review.
A Dog of Flanders - Different resources for finding information; expository writing; difference between facts and opinions; use facts to draw correct conclusions; practise reading and observing carefully; personification; persuasive writing; practice writing a persuasive paragraph; facts and opinions; see the correct order of things.
Star of Light - similes and personification; understand word meanings from sentence clues; lively, descriptive verbs; descriptive writing; time order and narrative writing; use adjectives to compare; use analogies to compare; consider why the author chose the title Star of Light.

Literature and Creative Writing

Read and Examine six books.
The Fugitive King - Learn some facts about literature; write a paragraph of contrast; homophones and synonyms; answer questions about the plot; ollow guidelines for answering short answer questions; determine meanings of new vocabulary words; determine cause and effect; write a three-paragraph essay;
Christians with Courage - Biographies and autobiographies; use the dictionary; root words; read and answer thought questions; learn about proverbs; test skills of observation; learn terms related to news stories; write headlines and leads for news stories.
Alexi's Secret Mission - Idea of same and different; compare things and ideas; write using comparison and contrast; recognise and write figures of speech; foreshadowing and predicting; use specific nouns and lively verbs in writing; add adjectives, adverbs and prepositional phrases to improve writing; fact and opinion; suspense.
Grandpa's Christmas Gift - Use confusing words correctly; how the focus of the setting can change in a story; put things in order; follow directions; use logic to figure things out; write directions; write diary entries; learn about poetry.
Little Pilgrim's Progress - Learn about The Pilgrim's Progress and John Bunyan; discover things about a book by looking at its cover; how expository writing explains, answers questions, compares or contrasts, gives reasons and tells "how to"; idioms; allegory; review Biblical allegories (parables); learn about the man Aesop; characterization; read some of Aesop's Fables; examine an allegory in poetry; understand the allegories of Little Pilgrim's Progress.
Treasures of the Snow - Learn about a novel and narrative writing; story structure; conflict and point of view; time order; identify figures of speech; answer THINK questions; identify sensory details; write THINK and SUPPOSE paragraphs of five or more sentences; write descriptive paragraphs using sensory detail; plot development; identify the climax and resolution of a story; expository writing; persuasive writing; write a persuasive paragraph and advertisement; determine the kind of writing needed for a specific topic.

Basic Literature

Read and examine six books.
Writing activities include analysis for style, plot and character development. Compositions based on some of the books give students to prepare outlines, write first drafts, correct their writing and turn in final drafts for assessments.

George Mueller – Composition writing exercise of four paragraphs using outline
D. L. Moody – 300 word composition using outline
Through Gates of Splendour – 300 word composition using outline
God's Smuggler – 300 word composition using outline
By Searching – Five paragraph report using outline
Swiss Family Robinson – Four or five paragraph composition using outline