2015 Early Education in the Home

Perhaps youve wondered . . .

How can I know when to start school with my child?

How important is it to teach phonics?

How do I choose curriculum?

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Teaching your child to read is one of the highlights of home education. But how can you know when your child is ready for this important step? How should you proceed once he is ready? CLEs early education program can help you answer these questions.

Beginning with the Beginners Activity Series, your 3- to 4-year-old can enjoy short periods of pre-reading activities a few times per week. As he matures, the frequency and duration of these lessons can gradually increase.

When you sense that your child is ready to begin studying phonics (typi-cally between age 5 and 6) you have two options for teaching him kindergarten: CLEs Kindergarten II Little Light series, and the ABC & GHI Readiness series.

Kindergarten II specifically prepares students for CLEs Learning to Read program, so we suggest that you use the ABC & GHI Series to supplement CLEs Kindergarten II if you want more than the thirty lessons in the K II course, or to meet your childs specific needs.

Learning to Read, designed to be taught in Grade 1, may be started at the

end of kindergarten. The Learning to Read and the Reading to Learn courses provide one year of work, so they need not be started before Grade 1.

By carefully observing your childs progress, you can tailor his education in such a way that you will neither push him into formal education too early nor postpone his schooling when he is ready.

Signs that your child may be ready to begin schooling:

Expresses interest in schooling

Likes to draw, color, or scribble

Respects your authority Follows directions well Likes to be read to for

increasing time periods

Has a growing attention span

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The ABC Readiness Series and GHI Series provide four- or five-year-olds with short periods of pre-reading activities several times per week. As they mature, you can gradually increase the frequency and duration of these lessons.

Adventures With Books $3.25Bible Pictures to Color $3.25Bible Stories to Read $6.50Counting With Numbers $3.25Do it Carefully $3.25Everywhere We Go $3.25

Finding the Answers $3.257 preceeding books $21.956 Workbooks only $16.95Going On Eagerly $3.25Hearing and Helping $3.25Inside and Out $3.25

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About Three gives practice in skills such as hand-eye coordination and visual comparisons. $2.65

Bigger Steps is focused on slightly more advanced motor skills and includes number concepts. $2.65

Color, Count, and Cut offers practice and intro-duces the eight basic color words using geometric shapes. $2.65

Doing My Best has four- and five-year-olds in mind with exercises more advanced than the previous book. $2.65

Beginners Activity Set $10.00

Prepares children for first grade.

Workbooks for three- to four-year-olds.

ABCGHI

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Beginners Activity Series

Readiness Series

To create a well-balanced course for your child, we recommend that you begin by choosing books from the ABC Series. Follow them with CLE's Kindergarten II, and finish with books from the GHI Series as needed.

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The goal of CLE Kindergarten II is introduction to sounds and numbers, but not necessarily mastery. Workbooks and Activity Books are to be done simultaneouslya lesson from each per day. In the beginning, students may find an entire lesson per day too overwhelming.

LittleLight WorkbooksThe five Workbooks prepare students to use CLE's Learning to Read program. The LittleLights introduce the concepts of matching, dot-to-dot, color names, sounds, letter writing, recognizing and writing numbers 1-100, and more.

5 LittleLights (1-5) $17.25

LittleLight Activity BooksThe Activity Books provide fun activities such as coloring, cutting and pasting, identifying, and more.

5 activity Books (1-5) $17.25

Teachers GuideA complete Teachers Guide is in development and is projected to be finished in 2016. No Answer Keys are available for this edition, but basic teachers notes and essential answers are included in the Workbooks and Activity Books.

Prepares children for Learning to Read.

Creating a positive atmosphere of learning

Keep lessons relaxed and informal in the early years

Read to your child often (while cuddled on the couch)

Let him make a mess while working, then help clean it up

Have lessons when hes most alert (probably right after breakfast)

Allow time for creative play Watch for physical discomfort

(small legs dangling from a large chair can lose circulation)

Be sensitive to the child who has a short attention span

Dont pressure your child to meet the expectations of others

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2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Top: Count how many train engines. Color the number 2 and the engines. Bottom: Trace and write the 2. Use the number chart on page 55 and have the children count to 10.


Learning to Read, CLEs widely-used, phonics-first reading program, is a comprehensive program introducing the beginning first grader to the basics of language arts. The lessons cover visual discrimination, listening, handwriting, phonics, spelling, and reading. Other subjects for first grade are coordinated with Learning to Read and are begun before its completion. This ties the first-grade curriculum together and provides a solid founda-tion that helps the child develop good work habits for independent study.

LightUnitsTen LightUnits (workbooks) provide

a variety of activitiespictures to color, writing practice, drilling of likenesses and differences, and pictures to identify the beginning sound or vowel sound. There are also words to sound and stories to read.

After the 35 basic sounds have been introduced, the lessons generally include a two-page story with questions to answer, a writing page, and a phonics page. The phonics page continues drillsounding out words, marking vowelsas well as introducing more advanced concepts.

10 Lightunits set $34.50

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PrimersFour delightful books, designed to motivate children with the thrill of reading, are integral to Learning to Read. The reading level slowly advances to match students progress in the accompanying LightUnits. By the time your child is in LightUnit 102 he will have the skills necessary to start reading stories from the Primers. Softcover, illustrated with beautiful pencil art.

We Live (use with 102-103) $5.00We Explore (use with 103-106) $5.00We Learn (use with 107-108) $5.00We discover (use with 109-110) $5.00

Teachers GuidesThe two Teachers Guides are essential to the program and provide answers and easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for each lesson. They include a comprehensive outline; a summary of sounds, markings, and phonetic rules; teaching tips; activity ideas; games for reinforcement; and more. Also, they provide daily and yearly schedules to assist in planning. Teachers Guides contain answers for the LightUnits. (Required.)

2 teachers guides $14.00

5 stories30 stories

18 stories22 stories

Ideas for adding spice and variety to learning:

Assemble jigsaw puzzles Trace and color pictures Look at picture books Make an ABC book (cut &

paste pictures for each letter) Illustrate a story or event Drill with flash cards Begin and label a nature

collection (leaves, rocks . . .)


Teacher Training Book & CDFor teachers new to phonics, we recommend our training LightUnit that introduces Learning to Read methods and procedures. The CD gives the phonetic sounds.

set $10.00

Flash CardsA letter card, story, and rhyme are used to

introduce 21 consonants, four consonant digraphs, and the long and short vowel sounds. Each card contains a full-color picture whose name uses the sound of the letter. The story and rhyme are centered around the key word picture and often contain many words with the new sound. Students learn the rhyme and repeat it frequently to help rivet the sound in their minds. The story also contains a moral or draws the childs mind to the greatness of Gods creation or Gods care for him. Students develop listening comprehension by answering questions about the story.

Word and phrase flashcards are an integral part of the program. Word cards improve word recognition speed. Phrase cards develop the skill of reading sentences quickly. Words and phrases are also listed in the back of the Teachers Guide.

Letter Flash Cards $12.00

Letter Wall Cards $16.00

Word Flash Cards $10.00

Phrase Flash Cards $14.00

Manuscript Alphabet StripThis self-adhesive strip can be applied to students desks to show correct letter forma-tion using directive arrows. 2 x 17

Manuscript desk strip (single) $1.50

Manuscript desk strip (roll of 25) $32.00

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Reading

Teachers GuideThe Teachers Guide is essential to teaching the course effectively and gives detailed help for each lesson, especially focusing on new concepts and the oral reading sessions. It includes alternate tests, a scope, and index. Also contains answers for the LightUnits. (Required.)

teachers guide $9.00

begins where Learning to Read ends, providing review of phonics and mechanics,

and majoring on comprehension and analytical skills.

ReaderRemember when you were young and found a book you really liked, a book that transported you to new places and different times, a book in whichat you actually felt you were there? I Wonder will not only captivate your childrens attention and increase their desire to read, it will reinforce the solid Christian values you want them to carry for a lifetime.

I Wonder reader $8.50

LightUnitsThe LightUnit leads students in a variety of skills. Skills include recalling facts, interpreting simple figures of speech, comparing, predicting, recog-nizing degrees of importance, listening and speaking, and oral reading skills. Students begin to evaluate what they read; to apply it to everyday situations and to their own livesin short, to think. Reading 100 requires some teacher involvement as students begin working more on their own.


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Write two Study Words with the ed suffix.A

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Write know or think in the blanks.B

2. I the boy in the story was named Ted.

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1. bread (br2d) 6. golden (g9ldn)2. busy (b3z7) 7. once (wns)3. clickety (kl3kt7) 8. shakity (sh6kt7)4. fields (f7ldz) 9. sifted (s3ftd)5. gentle (j2ntl) 10. sowed (s9d)

Study Words

Read the list to yourself two times.

Know or Think?

Some things we can know for sure. I know 2 + 2 = 4.Other things we cannot know for sure. I think it will rain.


Language ArtsLightUnitsCLEs Language Arts program is built on two key concepts: incremental learning and continuous review. The incremental approach to teaching concepts builds line upon line, precept upon precept as each small segment builds on what has already been taught. A new concept is reviewed oftenseveral times before being tested, and at regular intervals thereafterto insure that students remember it.

Phonics: teaches most phonics sounds and spellingsSpelling: phonics review, word meaningsGrammar: nouns, describing words, suffixes, prefixesPenmanship: all manuscript lettersCreative Writing: thinking, writing, sharingCommunication Skills: telephone, mannersMechanics: capitals, periods, question marks, commas


Teachers GuideThe Teachers Guide provides easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for each lesson including the spelling and penmanship activi-ties. Also included are alternate tests, a scope, index, wall card blacklines, and LightUnit answers. The Teachers Guide is essential to teaching the course effectively. (Required.)


Phonics CardsThis set of 88 beautiful full-color Phonics Cards replaces the 23 old Language Arts Wall Charts. They illustrate and give practice words for the pronunciation rules taught in CLE Reading and Language Arts.

Phonics Wall Cards (8" x 10") $24.00

Phonics Flash Cards (5" x 7") $16.00

Extra Practice SheetsExtra Practice Sheets give specific concentrated review for new or difficult concepts. Approxi-mately 30 pages. (Reproducible.)

Extra Practice sheets $4.00

is for students who have completed the first four LightUnits of Learning to Read.

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MathLightUnitsCLEs Sunrise Math is a thorough program using the incremental learning approach. Each lesson introduces one or more bite-size concepts which are then reinforced by daily reviews. These reviews help students retain and improve skills. Students work contains exercises, quizzes, and testsall divided into easy-to-use daily segments. Practical story problems with a Biblical worldview relate math to real life.


Teachers GuidesThe Teachers Guides are essential to teaching the course and include day-by-day instructions with suggested oral activities and flash-card work as well as LightUnit answers. (Required.)

2 teachers guides $14.00

Counting ChartCircling numbers on the 1-200 Counting Chart with a dry-erase marker helps children visualize number patterns and relationships. (Required.) $1.50

My Counting BookChildren journey to 1,000 by writing ten numbers a day. Reinforces number writing, place value, and more. (Required.) $2.50

My Calendar BookThis collection of supplemental enrichment activities is an excellent way to teach calendar concepts, observe weather, and introduce students to graphs and statistics. Teacher notes included. (Optional.) $4.90

Flash CardsThe flash-card system ensures that each math fact is reviewed often enough for complete mastery. (Required.) $16.00

Clock with gearsThis sturdy, durable, color-coded plastic clock is a helpful tool in teaching children to tell time. (Optional.) $2.00

Juneau, WI:We were very concerned

about being able to teach our youngest child to read, because she had no desire to read. In fact, as she stated one day last year, I hate reading! ... We decided to try the CLE workbooks. After completing the Learning to Read series, our daughter has become a successful reader, and her attitude has improved immensely. She is happily completing all of her work in all subject areas.

Toledo, OH:Two things I greatly appreciate

are 1) Cost. I can hardly believe anything so reasonable could be more effective than the Bells and Whistles courses. 2) Religious content . . . Other courses Ive heard of or reviewed with a religious affiliation teach beliefs contrary to my sons religious training. Your materials show such simple truths and would be helpful in any religious faith of leading little ones to the Lord. I like the low key, simple way its doneits not preachy or offensive.

Pretty Prairie, Ks:I started my son

on your Learning to Read 101, and he has progressed grandly. Your systematic approach with lots of drill work and repetition has been the key to his understanding and therefore, retaining the information.

LightUnitsOur new Sunrise Bible course contains stories that capture the imagination and bring the Bible to life. Each lesson is a two-page spread with a simple Bible story and a corresponding activity.


Teachers GuideThe Teacher's Guide includes a full-length version of the story for the teacher to tell or read. This course allows the child to enjoy the Bible and learn truths from it, without a heavy workload. Includes LightUnit answers. (Required.)


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