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Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization provides a system to reintroduce you and your students to a vital but often neglected source of powerful and sophisticated linguistic patterning available to children: memorized language, especially memorized poetry.

This teaching tool includes a book with ninety-six poems and speeches as well as all the poems and speeches read on CD (also comes with MP3 downloads) for ease of memorization. Instructions, memory charts, certificates, and poet biographies are included, as well as a complementary Student Book as an e-book download. You will also receive a bonus DVD of Andrew Pudewa's conference talk Nurturing Competent Communicators.

This teaching tool includes a book with ninety-six poems and speeches as well as all the poems and speeches read on CD for ease of memorization. Instructions, memory charts, certificates, and poet biographies are included, as well as a complementary Student Book as an e-book download. You will also receive a bonus DVD of Andrew Pudewa's conference talk Nurturing Competent Communicators.

Given the linguistic and cultural benefits of memorizing poetry, this resource may be one of the best uses of your available school hours. Recitation of memorized poems can easily be done away from a desk�classroom teachers can encourage students to practice at recess, in the car, and with their parents and siblings at home; teaching parents can play the CD during meals, car trips, or chore time. Memorizing new poems gets easier in direct proportion to the number of poems already learned; in other words, the more you have learned, the faster you can learn more. The audio CD recordings included with the packet will facilitate learning through repetition so that students can master poems quickly and accurately. Be sure to read the introduction to this book frequently to be reminded of the importance of poetry memorization for the linguistic development of children. "Memorization is not only natural for young children, it is culturally powerful and educationally essential."

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Format: Paperback + CD

Price: £60.00

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Teaching the Classics will revolutionize the way you and your students read books. By using short stories as the models and the Socratic approach as the method, the authors systematically prepare you to teach character, plot, theme, and other elements of fiction and literary analysis. Useful for teachers of all ages and abilities.

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Format: Package

Price: £96.00

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Teaching the Classics will revolutionize the way you and your students read books. By using short stories as the models and the Socratic approach as the method, the authors systematically prepare you to teach character, plot, theme, and other elements of fiction and literary analysis. Useful for teachers of all ages and abilities.

Format: Spiral Bound

Price: £24.00

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Created to save planning time and research, this chronological index of classic world literature reveals a panoramic view of world history. Includes instruction for Reader-Response Journaling, enabling students to outline each chapter they read to strengthen comprehension, develop discernment, and experience the wonder of classic literature. Useful for students of all ages, this guide will complement many curricula and teaching styles.

No. of pages: 121

Format: Spiral Bound

Price: £24.00

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Why do certain literary works have the power to move us? With step-by-step instructions, Windows to the World teaches students how to analyze elements of literature: setting, plot, characterization, imagery, allusions, parallelism, and much more. This course also gives numerous examples and suggestions for helping students develop Christian discernment skills.

Format: Spiral Bound

Price: £23.00

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Purchase this Teacher's Manual if you already own the accompanying Student Book and need to complete the set.

No. of pages: 129

Format: Spiral Bound

Price: £19.00

Suggested Age: 14 to 18

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Windows to the World: An Introduction to Literary Analysis

Why do certain literary works have the power to move us? With step-by-step instructions, Windows to the World teaches students how to analyze elements of literature: setting, plot, characterization, imagery, allusions, parallelism, and much more. This course also gives numerous examples and suggestions for helping students develop Christian discernment skills. The accompanying Teacher's Manual is suitable for both new and experienced teachers.

Click here to view an introduction to the Windows to the World

Format: Spiral Bound

Price: £39.00

Suggested Age: 13 and above

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The workbook to accompany the Worldview Detective (included in the purchase of the complete seminar).

Format: Spiral Bound

Price: £14.50

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Help your students learn to ask fundamental questions that will allow them to discover the author�s worldview and thus be well equipped to understand and interpret his work properly.

Featuring live discussions of works by Jack London and Flannery O'Connor, the seminar also includes a brand new Socratic List of 113 discussion questions designed to help you analyze any book.

Help your students understand what they read at the deepest level � the worldview level.

Designed as a tool for investigators in search of the worldviews hidden in all Great Books. Use the keys we provide to unlock the secrets of any book � so that you can know the author, and yourself, more fully.

Worldview Detective is a powerful revision and extension of CenterForLit�s Teaching the Classics: Worldview Supplement.

It�s a three-hour training course for parents, teachers and secondary students.

Instead of requiring a rigid curriculum, Worldview Detective teaches a method for analysis that can be used with any book in the world.

Format: Package

Price: £45.00

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