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Continuing the Journey to Literacy: A Guide to Teaching Language Arts in Waldorf Schools Grades 4 through 8 is a comprehensive manual for Waldorf teachers and home school parents. It includes 17 aspects of language arts such as reading, writing, spelling, literary analysis, speech, and more. It also has a grammar curriculum with puzzles. It presents the entire Waldorf curriculum and introduces the principles, objectives, and teaching practices of Waldorf education as formulated by Rudolf Steiner, founder of Waldorf education. This book is the sequel to The Roadmap to Literacy: A Guide to Teaching Language Arts in Waldorf Schools Grades 1 through 3 (Langley and Militzer-Kopperl 2018). Together, the two books outline a complete language arts curriculum for Waldorf grades 1-8.

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You hold in your hands one of the few books that can be considered a genuine instructional manual for the Waldorf practitioner, a user's guide that offers deeply-researched, systematic, and actionable advice. --Eugene Schwartz, Director of the Online Conferences for Grades 1-8 The depth and breadth of this valuable resource exemplify its commitment to being a practical and inspirational guide to understand and teaching the foundational elements of language arts. --Anna Rainville, author of Singing Games for Families, Schools, and Communities

You hold in your hands one of the few books that can be considered a genuine instructional manual for the Waldorf practitioner, a user's guide that offers deeply-researched, systematic, and actionable advice. --Eugene Schwartz, Director of the Online Conferences for Grades 1-8 The depth and breadth of this valuable resource exemplify its commitment to being a practical and inspirational guide to understand and teaching the foundational elements of language arts. --Anna Rainville, author of Singing Games for Families, Schools, and Communities

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Jennifer Militzer-Kopperl has worked as a private Remedial Specialist since 2005. She graduated from Grand Valley State University with a degree in Russian Studies (1994) and went on to complete two years of graduate work at The University of Kansas in the field of Slavic Languages and Literatures. After dropping out of graduate school, she took several odd jobs before working at Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes(R) teaching remedial reading, math, and language comprehension. She returned to school to get a degree in Waldorf education to provide balance to her Lindamood Bell training (Rudolf Steiner College, Fair Oaks, 2005). Jennifer Militzer-Kopperl's first book is The Roadmap to Literacy: A Guide to Teaching Language Arts in Waldorf Schools Grades 1 through 3, which she co-authored with Janet Langley. Continuing the Journey to Literacy: A Guide to Teaching Language Arts in Waldorf Schools Grades 4 through 8 is Militzer-Kopperl's second book, and it is the sequel to The Roadmap to Literacy. Together, The Roadmap to Literacy and Continuing the Journey to Literacy comprise a complete language arts curriculum for Waldorf schools grades 1-8. This program is called the Renewal of Literacy. Jennifer Militzer-Kopperl lives in California with her husband and their two cats. Visit her website Renewal of Literacy at www.renewalofliteracy.com.

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