Product Overview
This monthly handbook contains the following features:
- 4 Passages (one per week) for copywork/dictation practices
- Lessons on grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, and literary devices
- Dart Planner and Skills Tracker
- Weekly Reading Guide
- Literary Device and Writing Activity
- Discussion Questions
- Family Book Club Party Ideas
- Guidelines explaining copywork & dictation practices
- Literary Device: Hook and Return
Note
This novel celebrates life and community and ends on an uplifting and hopeful note. In these pages, you’ll meet a beloved character whose college-aged son (Christopher) was killed in a drive-by shooting ten years before the story takes place. There is a poignant scene late in the book when Maya, the young protagonist, attends Christopher’s memorial service and learns about his cause of death. We encourage you to pre-read the memorial service scene on pages 171–174 and decide how to navigate it with your child (reading directly or modifying to meet their needs). Encountering topics such as this in books can open doors to conversations and help children process tough topics in the safety of your home, but you know your child, their personal experiences, and their capacities best.
About the Books
Maya and the Robot
Maya's nervous about fifth grade. She tries to keep calm by reminding herself she knows what to expect. But then she learns that this year won't be anything like the last. For the first time since kindergarten, her best friends Jada and MJ are placed in a different class without her, and introverted Maya has trouble making new friends.She tries...
