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teacher helps. Welcome to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the

Charlotte Mason Method. I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Liz Katrille and Nicole Williams.

Well, now that we've discussed the overall place of literature in a Charlotte Mason curriculum,

let's zoom in and specifically look at form one, which is grades one through three.

So children in these forms are between six and eight or nine years old.

And the form is divided into form 1B, which is the first year.

And just my little helpful mnemonic here is think B for a beginner.

And form 1A, which is the second and third grade year, think A for advanced.

So it's counterintuitive to how we would probably label things now.

And children do spend two years in Form 1A.

So Nicole, will you tell us what books and materials were assigned to these ages?

Yeah.

So literature begins with a child's natural love of story.

This is the only form that does not coordinate, though, their literature with their history.

Form one. Form one, yep. But there's still great intentionality of what is chosen at this stage. In Form 1B,

those first graders, the literary focus is on fairy tales. Miss Mason consistently included three fairy tales from Anderson or Grimm and three fables from ASOP.

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