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 \n2.Grade-Level Guidelines.               …  ….8With the natural method you can easily achieve the statedgoals atany gradelevel.Primary grade goals are given here tohelp reassure you during these early years of your child'slearning.  \n3.Spelling……        ………         ………11What are the standard approaches to spelling?How can youborrow these ideas and integrate spelling into your otherlanguage teaching?  \n4.Sample Lessons..       ……  …     …   ..16Read these.Try some.Then plan future lessons on yourown.  \n5.Bible Sentences for Writing Practice..     …  …..24Graded from easy to difficult,these sentences providepractice in penmanship,spelling,and language skills,as wellas deeper character building and spiritual values.  \n# The Powerful Natural Method\n\nParent,you may not realize it,but you are an excellent languageteacher.You can prove that by the speech of your child.Think of howmuchlanguage he learned by age five or so.Don'tyou wishyou spoke anew foreign language as well?If you did,you could go to that countryand ask directions,make purchases,or get acquainted with people.Inshort,you would feel fairly competent in the language.  \nThat's the amazing accomplishment of your young child.How didyou teach him?By using the powerful natural method.This manualwill show you how to extend the natural method from spoken lan-guage to written language.With this method your child's writingability will grow in great leaps,just as his speaking ability grew in thepreschool years.  \nThe method is not new or experimental.It is an old and provenmethod,probably as old as writing itself.Great writers have used it,and you have already used it with your child.But once children reachschool age,we tend to shed the natural method for a slower,artificialmethod.Our society thinks grammar books or language bookssomehow carry the secret of good writing,but few of them do.  \nWhat is the natural method of learning to write?Before defining it,let's think back to the child's learning of speech.How did he learn tospeak?By listening and speaking.The baby at first listened to you,heimitated sounds and words,and from there he rapidly grewinto a com-petent speaker.This is no secret known only in the ivy halls of teachercolleges.It is known in every house on the block.And if that soundslike a miracle,attribute it to the innate abilities God planted in thechild.Speech is learned by listening and speaking.  \nNow,what is the parallel for written language?It is reading andwriting.We might state the analogy this way:Listening and speakingare to spoken language what reading and writing are to written lan-guage.If people ask you how children learn to write,here is the short,short definition to give them:Children learn to write by writing.  \nButyou need alonger definition than thatin order to make practicaluse of this powerful natural method in your teaching.For that,wemust examine some features of this system.  \n# What You Do in a Lesson\n\nProbably your child's first writing lesson was when you printed hisname and he traced it or copied it.Or maybe you started even earlierwith one letter instead of aword.This kind of copying is what happensin many lessons for a young","cbCaiaYq2LMo5ZCx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaYq2LMo5ZCx","pdf",1162481,36,"English","# The Powerful Natural Method\n## What You Do in a Lesson\n## Contents\n### 1. 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