Best Selling Books by Jessie Wise

This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of education''he trivium''hich organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child''s mind: the elementary school "grammar stage," the middle school "logic stage," and the high school "rhetoric stage." Using the trivium as your model, you''ll be able to instruct your child in all levels of reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects. Newly revised and updated, The Well-Trained Mind includes detailed book lists with complete ordering information; up-to-date listings of resources, publications, and Internet links; and useful contacts.

An updated, easier-to-use edition of the program that helped a million parents teach their children to read. Bundle includes: The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition Instructor Book (paperback) The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Tea This bundle gives parents everything they need to teach their children to read, from the simplest letter sounds up to a fourth grade level. The Instructor Book, featuring a new introduction by Dr. Susan Wise Bauer, guides parents step by step through each lesson, with easy-to-follow, scripted text. The Student Book gives students clear examples of each letter, word, and sentence in their own book, building their confidence from the very beginning. This classic phonics program has taught millions of children to read, and now it’s even easier to use. The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading lets any parent give their children the gift of lifelong literacy. The program is easily expandable to include multiple students in a home or school setting.

Providing a wealth of tools, instructional advice and easy-to-follow guidelines.

An updated, easier-to-use edition of the program that helped a million parents teach their children to read. Parents can teach their children to read--no expertise required! Parents can take charge of their children’s literacy with this updated, easier-to-use edition of the classic jargon-free phonics guide. Too many parents watch their children struggle with early reading skills — and don’t know how to help. Many phonics programs are too often complicated, overpriced, gimmicky, and filled with obscure educationalese. The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition cuts through the confusion, giving parents a simple, direct, scripted guide to teaching phonics and reading— from short vowels through supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. A new layout makes understanding and teaching the concepts even easier. With the accompanying Student Book, parents will have everything they need to take their children from the basics all the way to a fourth-grade reading level. Features a new introduction by Dr. Susan Wise Bauer.

This simple-to-use scripted guide to grammar and composition makes successful teaching easy for both parents and teachers. It uses the classical techniques of memorization, copywork, dictation, and narration to develop a childs language ability in the first years of study.

Learn to read letters, sounds, words, sentences, and full stories! New to the Revised Edition, this Student Book contains all the text your child will need for the lessons in The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition. Created and designed based on feedback from parents and teachers over the past 20 years, the Student Book allows children to focus only on the material they are using, without being distracted by additional text in the Instructor Book. From “a” to “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” these pages are the doorway to a whole lifetime of reading.

Luke Logan is different from his two brothers-cut from another cloth, and always chasing the wind so his father often tells him. In place of going to veterinarian school as he''d planned after receiving his degree from college, he enters one empty venture after another. He begins to wonder why his life is so aimless, why his endeavors hold little purpose, no deep gratification and no lasting interest. The Logan family owns a large Kansas ranch, and Luke is the son who is born a horseman. Without words or restraints, he conquers the most fiendish animal and teaches it the exercises and movements that constitute the aristocratic horse. Longing to reach into the equine mind, he defers to an old Blackfoot Indian Chief who is s friend of the Logan family. On the Blackfoot reservation in Montana, Luke learns the ancient art of tapping into the equine parapsychology to better understand the animal. However, the day Luke arrives home to find the Logan ranch demolished by a tornado and his family gone is the day that he lands with his feet planted firmly on the ground. No more chasing the wind he decides when he leaves Montana for North Florida. Here, in the low rolling hills of Pine Bluff, Florida he works through the heartache of losing his family, only to find himself in the most intriguing dilemma of his life. He meets a young girl by the name of Alli Denson. Alli has suffered the most reprehensible abuse a child can know, she is deeply scarred by years of this defilement. Chance has brought them together and desperation binds them. Though Luke can mend the wounded soul of a horse, is he deluding himself into believing his expertise can reach into the darkness where humans with crushed spirits tend to dwell?

This simple-to-use scripted guide to grammar and composition makes successful teaching easy for both parents and teachers. It uses the classical techniques of memorization, copywork, dictation, and narration to develop a child''s language ability in the first years of study.

A simple-to-use, scripted guide to grammar and composition that makes successful teaching easy—for both parents and students. This volume, the Level 4 Instructor Guide in the complete elementary grammar series, uses classical techniques of memorization, dictation, and narration to develop your child''s language ability in the important, foundational years of language study. The text covers a full range of grammar topics, including parts of speech, punctuation, sentence diagrams, and skills in beginning writing and storytelling. Optional end units provide practice in dictionary use and letter writing. Designed to follow Levels 1-3, the Level 4 Instructor Guide can also be used as a first grammar text for older students. A Level 4 Student Workbook is available separately with worksheet and activities. Grade Recommendation: Grades 4-5.

This simple-to-use scripted guide to grammar and composition makes successful teaching easy for both parents and teachers. It uses the classical techniques of memorization, copywork, dictation, and narration to develop a childs language ability in the first years of study.

This simple-to-use scripted guide to grammar and composition makes successful teaching easy for both parents and teachers. It uses the classical techniques of memorization, copywork, dictation, and narration to develop a childs language ability in the first years of study.

A simple-to-use, scripted workbook to grammar and composition that accompanies the First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind, Level 4 textbook and makes successful teaching easy—for both parents and students. This workbook, accompanying the Level 4 Instructor Guide (available separately) in the First Language Lessons complete elementary grammar series, uses classical techniques of memorization, dictation, and narration to develop your child''s language ability in the important, foundational years of language study. This Level 4 Student Workbook provides complete worksheets for the student, making it possible for busy parents and teachers to spend more time teaching and less time preparing. Grade Recommendation: Grades 4-5.

The third volume in the First Language Lessons series, this scripted guide uses the classical techniques of memorization, copywork, dictation, and narration to develop your child''s language ability in the formative first years of study. The Level 3 Instructor Guide for First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind reinforces the grammar and writing concepts introduced in the previous levels. It also introduces new material, including sentence diagramming. This instructor book has the same simple-to-use, scripted format as the previous levels. (The Level 3 Student Workbook is available separately; the workbook makes it easier for busy parents to spend more time teaching, and less time preparing—you don''t have to hand-draw any diagram frames!) First Language Lessons Level 3 is designed to follow Levels 1 and 2, but can be used as a first grammar text for older students. The optional end-units on writing letters, dictionary skills, and oral usage allow you to tailor the instruction to the needs of your child. Grade Recommendation: Grades 2-4.

This simple-to-use, scripted guide to grammar and composition makes successful teaching easy -- for both parents and teachers. First Language Lessons, Level 3 uses the classical techniques of memorization, copywork, dictation, and narration to develop your child''s language ability in the important first years of study. It is a complete beginning grammar and writing text that covers parts of speech, diagramming sentences, and beginning writing, storytelling, and narration skills.

A complete beginning grammar text that uses copywork, narration, picture study, and other classical techniques to develop the young student’s language ability. Scripted lessons give the teacher direction and confidence, while exquisite pencil reproductions of great paintings are used to encourage children in oral composition. Originally published as a single two-year volume, Level 1 (Grade 1, this book) and Level 2 (Grade 2, available separately) have been redesigned as two separate simple-to-use one-year programs. Grade Recommendation: Grade 1.

First Language Lessons is a simple-to-use, scripted guide to grammar and composition that makes successful teaching simple—for both parents and teachers. The Level 3 Student Workbook (Grades 2-4) for First Language Lessons, used alongside the teacher''s Level 3 Instructor Guide, gives teachers everything they need to spend more time teaching their students—and less time preparing lessons, making copies, or gathering supplies. It''s all right here: inside this book, you''ll find poems for memorization, empty sentence diagram frames, and blank lines perfectly sized for young students'' copywork, dictation, and narration. First Language Lessons, Level 3 is a complete grammar and writing text that covers a wide range of topics—including parts of speech, sentence diagrams, and skills in beginning writing, storytelling, and narration. This Level 3 Student Workbook is the perfect complement to the lessons. Grade Recommendation: Grades 2-4.

A complete beginning grammar text that uses copywork, narration, picture study, and other classical techniques to develop the young student’s language ability. Scripted lessons give the teacher direction and confidence, while exquisite pencil reproductions of great paintings are used to encourage children in oral composition. Originally published as a single two-year volume, Level 2 (Grade 2, this book) and Level 1 (Grade 1, available separately) have been redesigned as two separate simple-to-use one-year programs. Grade Recommendation: Grade 2.

The eldest son of influential Southern parents rushes through life taking all he desires, even the girl his younger brother loves. Each family member is burdened with a cross to bear. Can they survive the hell they have created? When blood seems tainted, can it ever flow pure again?

When physical abuse begins to include her four-year old daughter, Julie Renfro takes her daughter and runs, finding the peace she''s been searching for until her past catches up with her.

Featuring rhymes and songs that put basic language sounds in context, in a memorable and fun format for children. Phonics-based reading requires a knowledge of the basic sounds that make up the English language. This CD gives you easy-to-use audio tracks, allowing you to hear the correct pronunciation of the sounds of the English language. Lyrics and a key to phonetic symbols enable you to read along with the tracks. Features over thirty tracks.

As a survivor, Kate Keefer hurdles all obstacles-until she meets Reeves Stanton. He turns her world upside down, causing her to lose sight of her former goals. Convinced their relationship is wrong, she walks away, only to find that her heart remains behind. He is the greatest obstacle yet.

"New to the Revised Edition, this Student Book contains all the text your child will need for the lessons in The Ordinary Parent''s Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition. Created and designed based on feedback from parents and teachers over the past 20 years, the Student Book allows children to focus only on the material they are using, without being distracted by additional text in the Instructor Book. From "a" to "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," these pages are the doorway to a whole lifetime of reading"--

This case study explores how the character Holofernes from Shakespeare''s Love''s Labor''s Lost acts as a project manager for the play-within-a-play The Nine Worthies. Love''s Labor''s Lost tells the story of the visit of the Princess of France to the Court of Navarre. Holofernes is a schoolmaster appointed to oversee a production of the play The Nine Worthies for the Princess, the King, and the rest of the royal courts. Holofernes struggles to manage a diverse group of fellow participants, each with highly varied skills, dispositions, and levels of investment. This case challenges students to use management practices and theories to examine and critique Holofernes''s use of time, personnel, and material during his high-stakes project.