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[The Well-Trained Mind] Spelling – recommends spelling workbook and spending 10 minutes a day on spelling Grammar – learning parts of speech, proper relationship between these parts of speech, and the mechanics of the English language with First Language Lessons for The Well-Trained Mind. Uses narration as a tool for grammar. Reading follows history; First Grade – Ancients, Second Grade – Medieval- early Renaissance, Third Grade- Late Renaissance-early Modern, Fourth Grade- Modern. Memorizing of poems of four to eight poems during the school year. Free reading time each day. [Waldorf] Most Waldorf students will be reading by the second or third grade well because they start later. And contrary to popular belief, Waldorf teachers do expect their children to read well! Grammar is taught starting in First Grade with simple punctuation. Steiner talked about the control of speech development through grammar and what comes through speech enters into writing and then reading (page 209, The Foundations of Human Experience). Memorization also emphasized with students learning many lines (usually hundreds of lines by the end of the school year) of poems, verses, songs, and dialogue for plays that change with the seasons, festivals. [0] 
Spelling, English Grammar, Reading and Writing
Differences Between Waldorf and The Well-Trained Mind: Grades One Through Four | The Parenting Passageway
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