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THE Purple BOOK
5th GRADE SKILLS

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The Purple Book is a blend of dictation and unit studies including poetry, oral presentations, and speech making. The updated third edition is even easier to use with added vocabulary and spelling exercises. Lessons integrate all the fifth grade language arts skills: grammar, creative writing, composition, spelling, higher-order reasoning, and study skills.

  • 36 weekly lessons divided into easy-to-use daily plans. Teacher friendly, with little or no preparation needed!
  • Everyday Words: Students hone in on grammar skills through dictation and writing exercises.
  • Speech Making and Oral Presentation Units: Students learn how to make oral presentations such as speeches and stories.
  • Poetry Unit: Additional creative writing and expression are taught extensively using poetry. 
  • Four Book Studies
    • Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
    • Trumpet of the Swan by E.B.White
    • Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
    • Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
  •  Each book study contains a summary, vocabulary skills, reading comprehension, and exciting activities.
  • The Skills Index provides an easy skill reference.
  • Review Activities follow most lessons providing additional skill practice.
  • Assessments help teachers to evaluate student's progress.

The Purple Student Activity Book is the perfect companion for The Purple Teacher Book! Everything in one book: student instruction, a place for writing, and a tool for easy record keeping. Allows for more independent work, a BONUS for teachers. The Purple SAB provides Enrichment Activities such as word puzzles, analogies, logic/reasoning activities and more found ONLY in the SAB. (Answers are found in The Teacher Book.) Please note: The Student Activity Book cannot be used independently.
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Learning Language Arts Through Literature has really bolstered my son's overall attitude towards language arts because it has given sterile topics like subject-verb agreement and prepositions a relevance in his life. 
- Jamie, The Unlikely Homeschool


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Learning Language Arts through Literature is a homeschool curriculum that covers spelling, grammar, writing, vocabulary, and reading all in one. It not only simplifies the process of language arts for children, it makes it easier on homeschool parents. And it does it all with great books as the foundation.
- Sara, Heart and Soul Homeschooling


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Learning Language Arts through Literature Purple Book includes everything thing you need for 5th-grade language arts.
- Sara, Classically Homeschooling


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The following review is for the 2nd edition of the Purple Book. Some changes have been made to the 3rd edition.
For more encouraging and helpful videos on homeschooling from our friends in South Africa, Oikos Family Ministries, follow their Patreon page.
Spelling 
adding suffixes - copying words - plurals of irregular words - plurals of words ending in: ch,f,fe,o,s,sh,x,y,z - spelling tips: ai,ck,ear,el,er,gh, gn,ie,igh,ir,kn,le,ou,ough,ow,sion,tion,ture,ur,wor - words ending in f,l,s,z - studying words - syllabication - vowel pairs: ai,ie,ou,ow
Reading
a Book Study Unit on: Farmer Boy, Trumpet of the Swan, Number the Stars, Caddie Woodlawn - accent - biography - character sketch - characters - choral reading - compound words - conclusion - conflict - drawing conclusions - dialect - exaggeration - facts - figurative language - folk tale - introduction - legend - meter - opinion - plot - poetry - point of view - problem solving - quotations - comprehension - rhyme - rhyme scheme - root or base words - setting - similes - skim and scan - solution - summary - super human qualities - supporting sentences - syllables - tall tale - topic - topic sentences - vocabulary
Grammar 
action verbs - adjectives - adverbs - antecedents - antonyms - apostrophes - base or root words - being verbs - capitalization - commas - common nouns - comparative adjectives - complete predicate - complete sentences - complete subjects - compound sentences - compound subjects - compound verbs - conjunctions - contractions - dates - declarative sentences - direct address - double negative - exclamation marks - exclamatory sentences - fragment - helping verbs - homonyms - hyphen interjections - interrogative sentences - irregular verbs - irregular words - italics - nouns - number words - past tense - periods - plural possessive nouns - plural nouns - plurals of irregular words - prefix - possessive nouns - prefix - preposition - present tense - pronouns - proper nouns - question marks - quotations - regular verbs - simple subjects - singular nouns - singular possessive nouns - suffixes - underlining - verbs - verb phrases - verb tense
Composition 
copying literature - character sketch - descriptive writing - dialogue writing - editing - envelope - exaggeration - figurative language - indentation - letter writing - list making - outlines - paragraph - parts of a letter - reporting - rhyme - summary - supporting sentences - tall tales - topic - topic sentences - writing poetry - writing from dictation
Research and Study Skills 
atlas - Bible references - dictionary - encyclopedia - family tree - globe - guide words - interview - list making - newspaper - outline - proofreading - reporting - research - skim and scan - thesaurus - time line
Higher Order Thinking Skills 
analogy - decision making - directions - facts - memorization - narration - opinion - sequencing events
Creative Expression / Games
choral reading - family tree - interviewing - memorizing - meter - poetry - rhyme - role playing - scheme - speech making
Penmanship 
copying passages - writing final drafts
In addition to the 36 weekly lessons in the Purple Book, your student will have the opportunity to read the following four novels throughout the year:

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

You may use these guides as a reading schedule: The Purple Book - Book Study Reading Guide
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