First Language Lessons For the Well-Trained Mind: Level 4

Lessons

• 1 New: The Parts of This Book
• 2 New: Nouns
• 3 New: Forming Plural Nouns Review: Nouns
• 4 New: Common and Proper Nouns Review: Forming Plural Nouns Learn to Proofread: Make Lowercase and Capitalize
• 5 New: Proper Nouns
• 6 New: Personal Pronouns
• 7 New: Demonstrative Pronouns(this,that,these,those) Review: Personal Pronouns
• 8 Introduction to Poem Memorization: "Afternoon on a Hill"
• 9 Review: Forming Plural Nouns, Common and Proper Nouns, Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns
• 10 New: Active Verbs New: Singular and Plural Verbs
• 11 New: Sentences and Fragments New: Diagramming Subjects and Verbs Learn to Proofread: Insert a Period
• 12 Summary Exercise: Mr Popper's Penguins
• 13 New: Adjectives That Tell What Kind,Which One, and How Many New: Diagramming Adjectives
• 14 New: Adjectives That Tell Whose (Possessive Nouns and Pronouns) New: Articles
• 15 Review: Adjectives Learn to Proofread: Insert an Apostrophe
• 16 Poem Memorization: "Ozymandias"
• 17 New: Adverbs That Tell How and When New: Diagramming Adverbs
• 18 New: Adverbs That Tell Where and How Often
• 19 New: Adverbs That Tell to What Extent
• 20 Review: Adjectives Review: Adverbs
• 21 Review: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, and Adverbs
• 22 Summary Exercise: Mark Twain
• 23 New: Helping Verbs New: Present, Past, and Future Tense
• 24 New: Direct Objects New: Subject and Object Pronouns Review: Helping Verbs
• 25 New: Indirect Objects Review: Direct Objects Review: Subject and Object Pronouns
• 26 Review: Direct and Indirect Objects Review: Subjects, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs
• 27 Poem Memorization: "How Doth"
• 28 New: Simple Versus Complete Subjects and Predicates Review: Subjects, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, and Direct Objects
• 29 New: State of Being Verbs New: Conjugating the Verb "To Be" Review: Action and Helping Verbs
• 30 New: Linking Verbs New: Predicate Nominatives New: Conjugating the Verb "To Do" Review: Action Verbs, Helping Verbs, And State of Being Verbs
• 31 Review: Linking Verbs Review: Predicate Nominatives Review: Subject and Object Pronouns
• 32 New: Predicate Adjectives Review: Linking Verbs Review: Predicate Nominatives
• 33 Summary Exercise: Cowboys
• 34 Review: Common and Proper Nouns Review: Pronouns Review: Capitalization Rules
• 35 New: Four Types of Sentences New: Conjugating the Verb "To Go"
• 36 New: Commands (with Diagramming) Review: Statements
• 37 New: Questions (with Diagramming) Learn to Proofread: Insert a Question Mark
• 38 New: Interrogative Pronouns Review : Pronouns
• 39 New: Conjugating the Verb "To Have" Review: Four Types of Sentences
• 40 Poem Memorization: "Learning to Read"
• 41 REview: Four Kinds of Verbs Review: Direct and Indirect Objects Review: Predicate Nominatives and Adjectives
• 42 New: Prepositions
• 43 New: Prepositional Phrases and Objects of the Preposition
• 44 New: Prepositional Phrases That Describe Subject
• 45 New: Prepositional Phrases That Describe Direct Object
• 46 New: Prepositional Phrases That Describe Indirect Objects
• 47 New: Prepositional Phrases That Describe Predicate Nominatives Review: Helping Verbs
• 48 New: Prepositional Phrases That Describe Objects of the Preposition
• 49 New: Prepositional Phrases That Describe Verbs
• 50 Summary Exercise: How Do We Measure Weight
• 51 Review: Adjectives
• 52 Review: Adverbs
• 53 Poem Memorization: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
• 54 Review: Four Kinds of Verbs Review: Direct Objects and Indirect Objects Review: Predicate Nominatives and Predicate Adjective
• 55 Review: Simple and Complete Subjects and Predicates
• 56 New: Initials New: Abbreviations for Titles of Respect, Months, and Days of the Week New: Address Abbreviations New: Measurement Abbreviations
• 57 New: Conjunctions New: Compound Subjects, Compound Predicate, and Compound Sentences New: Comma in A Series
• 58 New: Commas in Direct Address New: Commas after Introductory Elements Review: Commas in a Series Review: Commas in a Compound Sentence Review: Abbreviations Learn to Proofread: Insert a Comma
• 59 Summary Exercise: A Little Princess
• 60 New: Contractions Review: Personal Pronouns Review: Adjectives
• 61 New: The "No" Adverbs and Contractions Review: Contractions
• 62 Cumulative Poem Review
• 63 New: Direct Quotations at the End of Sentence Review: Four Types of Sentences
• 64 New: Direct Quotations at the Beginning of a Sentence Review: Four Types of Sentence
• 65 New: Direct Quotations Review: Direct Quotations Learn to Proofread: Insert Quotaion Marks
• 66 Poem Memorization: "The Height of the Rediculous"
• 67 New: Sentences with More Than One Direct Object, Predicate Nominative, or Predicate Adjective Review: Commas in Direct Address Review: Commas in a Series
• 68 Review: Prepositional Phrases
• 69 Review: Adverbs
• 70 New: Comparing Prepositions and Adverbs
• 71 Review: Conjunctions Review: Compound Subjects and Compound Predicates Review: Commas in a Series Review: Commas in a Direct Address
• 72 New: Avoiding Comma Splices and Run-on Sentences Review: Sentence Fragments Review: Conjunctions Review: Compound Sentences Learn to Proofread: Insert a Semicolon
• 73 Summary Exercise: Abraham Lincoln
• 74 Review: Four Kinds of Verbs Review: Direct objects, Indirect Objects, Predicate Nominatives, and Predicate Adjectives
• 75 New: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives Review: Adjectives
• 76 New: Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
• 77 Review: Four Types of Sentences Review: Pronouns (Personal, Demonstrative, and Interrogative)
• 78 New: interjections Review: Direct Address Review: Introductory Elements
• 79 Review: Abbreviations Review: Contractions
• 80 Review: Eight Parts of Speach Review: Simple and Complete Subjects and Predicates
• 81 Review: Prepositional Phrases
• 82 Review: Capitalization Rules Review: Proofreaders' Marks Learn to Proofread: Review All Marks
• 83 Review: Compound Subjects and Verbs Review: Compound Sentences Review: Fragments, Comma Splices, and Run-on Sentences
• 84 Review: Punctuation Review: Direct and Indirect Quotations
• 85 Cumulative Poem Review
• 86 Contractions
• 87 Writing Letters 1 - Writing Dates, Thank You Letter Rough Draft
• 88 Writing Letters 2 - Thank You Letter Final Copy
• 89 Writing Letters 3 - Addressing the Envelope
• 90 Writing Letters 4 - Friendly Letter Rough Draft
• 91 Writing Letters 5 - Friendly Letter Final Copy
• 92 Writing Letters 6 - Addressing the Envelope
• 93 Writing Letters 7 - Business Letter Rough Draft
• 94 Writing Letters 8 - Business Letter Final Copy
• 95 Writing Letters 9 - Addressing the Envelope
• 96 Writing Letters 10 - Emailing a Business Letter
• 97 Dictionary Skills 1 - Alphabetizing 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Letters
• 98 Dictionary Skills 2 - Looking Up Words in the Dictionary
• 99 Dictionary Skills 3 - Pronunciation Letters and Symbols
• 100 Dictionary Skills 4 - Words with More Than One Meaning
• 101 Dictionary Skills 5 - Synonyms and Antonymns