I got your Make Your Own English From The Roots Up Notebook back in the fall and we used it this past year. Much better than index cards by far. However we were wondering how you taught the book? I know it gives a few little teaching ideas, but my daughter doesn’t care for most of them. I would love to hear your ideas. They always help me. Thanks again, Heather D.
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FROM CINDY…
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Hi Heather!
Thanks so much for your email. Great question!
It sounds like you taught the book much like we did. I did not do much more than simply assign the roots/uses as copywork using the pages that we designed. The kids copied a bit a day during their lesson. It amazed me how much they took from the copywork. Copywork just has that power.
Now, my children are TALKERS (no comments from those saying that they get it from me! hehe!). They ran across roots or words using the roots that stimulated conversation. Lots of “Ahhhh…I get what –sometimes another– word means…” Or…does that mean that “—-” means “—“?
I was amazed at how much the study of Greek and Latin roots helped all areas of study–
…getting beyond phonics
…really understanding words/vocabulary
…spelling
…plus, much more!
Just make it easy. I find that as we kept everything simple, we allowed for more time to really LEARN. Does that make sense?
I have a real tendency to get IN THE WAY with my ideas and my plans. So, this really helped to make learning easy, natural, and fun! 🙂
Hope this helps!
With much love,
Cindy
PS!
We have our MAKE YOUR OWN ENGLISH FROM THE ROOTS UP packet available as an ebook. You can order your copy here:
http://www.cindyrushton.com/MakeYourOwnNotebook.html
OR! It is half off at this link:
Cindy, is it just the notebook set or is there a book also? How can I see what this is and I am also trying to find your language arts the easy way. Did you say you just redid it? Thanks.!
Hi!
Rodna, that is only my notebook pages packet. You can get their book directly from them and through several of the homeschool bookstores. These pages are ready to print and use with the book. You kids can even print them themselves. Of course, you can make notebooking pages for your own children. Just depends upon whether you want to do it yourself or not.
For the Language Arts the Easy Way book, it is being revamped and should be ready before Christmas. I have been plugging away on all of my to-do’s and this book is coming up on the list soon. 🙂
Until it is re-released, it is out of print.
Until then, we do highly recommend our Language Arts the Easy Way seminar set. It is amazing! I cover everything in it AND you can earn your Language Arts the Easy Way ebook with its Mommy Homework. 😉
Hope this helps!
With much love,
Cindy
Hi Cindy, thanks. I have a couple more questions. I want to make sure this is the correct set to buy before I do. I copied this from the website.
Language Arts…The EASY Way…
Includes the following workshops by Cindy Rushton: Language Arts…The Easy Way; Let’s Try Notebooking; 10 FUN and EASY Ideas for Making Homeschooling Great; Inspiring Children Toward Greatness Using Great Literature; Let’s Make Homemade Books; Notebooking! YES! YOU Can be a Binder Queen Too!; Let’s Make a Lapbook; Just Wish I’d Known; Let’s Make History Timeline Notebooks; Notebooking! Yes! YOU Are Going to be Addicted (teen workshop); Back to the Heart of Homeschooling!
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Second, can you use mommy homework credit to get this and is this all you need, plus the language arts the easy way ebook , for language arts? In the audio set, there is more mommy homework to earn the new language book?
See, I really need something else to help kayleen with Grammar. I try to just tell her as we go and do it natirally but she doesn’t understand why or why not we don’t write things a certain way and some of it I don’t know either, I just know how to write it not why! LOL
Thanks.
Cindy,
I have already purchased Notebookingpages.com English from the Roots up notebook pages, are yours that much different? I have a set of yours on my wish list that contains your EFTRU ebook so I may aquire it at a later date, but was just wondering what the difference was, and if you could help me with that?
Valerie Neal
Hi!
Rodna, that is another set–it is a potpourri of workshops that I teach about Language Arts. Scroll on down into the Talk-a-Latte seminars. That is the one that has weekly workshops on chapters in the new book.
Valerie, I am not familiar with that set. I love everthing that Debra designs, so I would assume that her set would be all you would need. Since you have it, use that one. 🙂
Hope this helps! Great questions!
Love ya!
Cindy