Shurley English Level 1 Homeschool Curriculum (2024)

Nurture a love of the English language, along with an understanding of how it's correctly used, with Shurley English. Appealing to all styles of learners, students will repeatedly practice old and new skills, developing a mastery of English in reading, writing, and even thinking skills.

This kit is comprised of the student workbook, teacher's manual and jingle/introductory sentence CD. Encouraging student-teacher interaction, the teacher's manual features comprehensive chapters that include everything needed for the lesson, including jingles, exercises, lessons, study notes, tests, checks, writing activities, and more. Lessons are scripted, with directions for students italicized, important concepts and words bolded, and charts included to help teachers and students visualize each idea. Student page numbers are referenced to help both parent and child easily find their respective places. "How to get started" and "jingle guidelines" provide additional hints and information for the teacher. Answers for the student practice and tests (student pages included in the student workbook) are included chronologically. Three-hole-punched pages, softcover.

Divided into a jingle section, reference section, practice section, and test section, students will need to flip to the necessary section in order to complete their lesson practice. The jingle section contains the lyrics to all the jingles, while the practice section provides a variety of activities, including matching, editing, multiple-choice, short answer, writing exercises, charts and other forms of written skill practice. Each test in the test section is divided into four areas: grammar, vocabulary, language skills and a weekly summary. Tests involve a variety of questions which should be familiar from the practice section. The reference section contains vocabulary words, an initial set-up plan, general reference notes, samples, and charts. Softcover.

An audio CD with the jingles and introductory sentences is also included to help students remember concepts such as parts of speech.

This Level 1 kit covers nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, statements, questions, word order, basic punctuation, letters and more.

Students practice and reinforce their lessons in this Student Workbook, an integral component of the Shurley English system. Divided into a jingle section, reference section, practice section, and test section, students will need to flip to the necessary section in order to complete their lesson practice.

The jingle section contains the lyrics to all the jingles, while the practice section provides a variety of activities, including matching, editing, multiple-choice, short answer, and other forms of written skill practice. Each test in the test section is divided into four areas: grammar, vocabulary, language skills and a weekly summary. Tests involve a variety of questions which should be familiar from the practice section. The reference section contains vocabulary words, a beginning set up plan, general reference notes, samples, and charts. Approximately 120 pages, softcover. Level 1.

Supplement your Shurley English studies with this fun workbook of Vocabulary Madness! Twenty-five word searches provide 2 games per textbook chapter; the back of the book also has 12 synonym and 12 antonym match exercises containing 4 words each. The last page contains 3 pictures students are to match to the appropriate word that describes it. Answers are included. 43 pages, paperback. Level 1.

Please note that these books were designed to accompany the public-school version; therefore, while these vocabulary words are at the same level, they are NOT identical to the Shurley Homeschool curriculum.