When you hear that Charlotte Mason doesn't begin formal lessons in grammar until form 2,

do you think she's crazy?

Or at least wonder why?

A young Miss Mason would have agreed with you.

But after working with real children, she changed her mind.

Today, we're discussing grammar lessons in the Charlotte Mason method.

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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 Nicole Williams. Liz Katrille.

Charlotte Mason said that we have nothing new in the teaching of grammar to suggest.

But for those of us who are used to language arts curriculum and workbooks beginning in kindergarten,

the language arts progression does seem quite different, not only compared with our own education,

but also compared to what all the voices in the homeschool community seem to be saying, right?

Nicole, can you paint the picture for us of how grammar fits into the whole scope of a child's education?

Absolutely. So in Form 1, so that's grades 1 through 3, there are no formal grammar lessons.

And instead, students are absorbing language naturally through rich reading or being read to and narration.

That was very intentional.

Charlotte Mason tells us grammar is a logical study.

It's abstract.

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