Product Details
- Publisher: The Well-Trained Mind Press (2021-05-04)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 646 pages
- ISBN-13: 9781952469022
- Item Weight: 1576.26 grams
- Dimensions: 11.01 x 8.57 x 1.28 cm
For the youngest learners, this gentle, literature-centered bundle offers the first introduction both to grammar and to the skills of putting words down on paper. Writing With Ease includes both instructor dialogue and student worksheets. First Language Lessons is nonconsumable; the work is primarily oral.
About the Author
Susan Wise Bauer is a writer, educator, and historian. Her previous books include the Writing With Ease, Writing With Skill, and Story of the World series from Well-Trained Mind Press, as well as The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series, all from W. W. W. Norton. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, as well as an M.A. in seventeenth-century literature and a Master of Divinity in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature. For fifteen years, she taught literature and composition at the College of William and Mary.
Jessie Wise, a former teacher, is a home education consultant, speaker, and writer. She has decades of experience as a classroom teacher, elementary school principal, private tutor, and educational consultant, and is the co-author of the best-selling The Well-Trained Mind and the groundbreaking elementary grammar text First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind. She lives in Charles City, Virginia.
