Downunder Dictation & Teachers Guide ebook
Downunder Dictation and Teacher’s Guide is a useful resource for the Australian and New Zealand homeschooling parents. Dictation exercises are aimed to suit grade 4-6.
All the excerpts are from whole or ‘living’ Australian and New Zealand literature, dating from 1769-2007. They include: classic fiction, poetry, songs, biographies, studies of nature and explorers’ journals. The dictation passages used in this resource are also used in the Downunder Copywork Series.
Downunder Dictation and Teacher’s Guide can be used as a stand alone resource or as a complementary teaching resource to the Downunder Copywork Series .
This ebook is so easy to pick up and incorporate into your homeschooling lessons. The dictation lessons are not graded. There are many ways these dictation lessons could have been presented and many ways in which instruction could have been given. Rather than guide you through each lesson, with endless lesson plans, and a ‘to do’ list, I have chosen a more minimalist approach. This means the home educator can individualise each lesson to suit their homeschool student. On some lessons I have also added some lesson idea suggestions.
If you are homeschooling multiple ages you can often use the same passage and vary your treatment of it. One child could copy the passage, while the other has it for dictation. Whilst one is learning some spelling words, the other could be taught some aspect of grammar. The younger student could be given a shorter portion of the passage. You could also have one homeschool student dictate the passage to the other. And, although they probably won’t like this one, you can have one child proofread the other’s work, before they hand it over to you for marking.
Dictation lessons can be done over a homeschool week if desired. They can be done on an ‘ad hoc’ (when you feel like it) basis or worked through sequentially. One lesson per week will take you through one homeshool year. Once you get comfortable with this method, you can branch out with your own selection of passages for copy work and dictation.
Download a sample of Downunder Dictation and Teachers Guide.
Age Range: 8-12
A New Zealand Version is available through Learnex.
Currclick also has a US version of this product.