by Donna | Dec 26, 2015
Welcome to 2016! And welcome to our newly-revised Meaningful Composition books! Yep, in the next couple of weeks all of our MC books from 5 I through 11 I (two semesters of each book) will be available for purchase. (Our old versions {still awesome books!} of 4 I, 4 II, and 12 II continue to be available as well.)
In honor of the release of many new books—and the other books’ revisions and new titles/contents—Character Ink Press is having a January sale! All MC books (4 I through 11 I) will be on sale from $35 down to $25 (through Character Ink Press only; other vendors will have their regular prices). Yep! Ten dollars off each book during our unveiling month!
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by Donna | Nov 24, 2015
We have another new parenting/character training product! A teaching that we offer in our Raising Teens With Character seminar (as well as in our teen workshops for conventions and small groups) is our signature Recipe for Rebellion. In this teaching, we bring to light four negative parenting practice that causes teens to rebel: giving rules without reasons, giving rules without allowing a response from our children, giving rules without consistency (without repetition), and giving rules without having deep, abiding relationships with our children.
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by Donna | Oct 29, 2015
Triff. Not a word you hear just every day. But a word, nonetheless. Because I said it is! 🙂
Many years ago, early into my cottage class teaching of homeschoolers, I had favorite words/sayings that I made up to write on kids’ papers.
Two phrases really–
TRIFF—short for terrific
Wowsie, wow, wow!
If a student got one of these marks on their paper that week, they knew that they had done a great job.
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by Donna | Oct 15, 2015
I am finished with the second book/download in the “Letters and Sound” series (only two more to go!). And this one is probably the most important of the four. Yes, the ABC Letters and Picture Cards are valuable for learning clue words for each letter (the first step in learning each letter’s sound) and are amazing for practice activities and games. And yes, the upcoming Little Rhyming ABC Books are tons of fun (and very catchy!). However, this packet/book will have your students singing the sounds of each letter of the alphabet in no time—in a pain-free, multi-sensory manner.
Children remember words of songs. They remember rhymes and mnemonics. They remember jingles and ditties. Thus, a natural way for littles to learn their beginning letter sounds is through one of these means. Enter “The ABC Sounds Song Packet.”
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by Donna | Sep 29, 2015
Fifteen years ago I began writing my complete language arts program for second through twelfth grade students (what is now Character Quality Language Arts, CQLA). I based that program, loosely, on six programs (language arts, editing, writing, vocabulary, spelling, etc., programs) that I had been using for a dozen years with my older children. I wanted to take all of the best “part language arts” books and put them together in one. And I did that!
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by Donna | Sep 14, 2015
School is in session everywhere now, which means young learners are learning their ABC’s and 1-2-3’s! I love back to school! I especially loved it when I taught my own kids at home! Nowadays, I am enjoying teaching (along with my oldest son Joshua, age thirty-two, history major with emphases in too many subjects to list!) one hundred students writing and language arts in cottage classes at three locations in and around Fort Wayne, Indiana. I call it my “testing program” to test my new books before we publish them, but really, they are just excuses to do what I love most—teach!
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