Character Quality Language Arts
Color Series and Levels
In CQLA, it does not matter which color you begin with! The three color series-- Red, Blue, and Green--are just the way the character qualities are divided. Choose the level you need according to your student's language arts abilities (Level Pre A--2nd and 3rd grade; Level A 4th and 5th grade; Level B 6th, 7th, and 8th grade; Level C high school), then choose the color series you desire according to the character qualities you would like to study that year. Be sure to get the same color (same set of character qualties) for each student so that the entire family is studying the same quality at the same time.
Red Series (formerly Volume I): Choose Level Pre A, A, B, or C
Red Series 1: Peacemaking |
Red Series 2: Boldness |
Red Series 3: Endurance |
Red Series 4: Joyfulness |
Red Series 5: Initiative |
Red Series 6: Thoroughness |
Red Series 7: Truthfulness |
Red Series 8: Compassion |
Blue Series (formerly Volume II): Choose Level Pre A, A, B, or C
Blue Series 1: Creativity |
Blue Series 2: Obedience |
Blue Series 3: Orderliness |
Blue Series 4: Virtue |
Blue Series 5: Love |
Blue Series 6: Responsibility |
Blue Series 7: Wisdom |
Blue Series 8: Decisiveness |
Green Series (formerly Volume III): Choose Level Pre A, A, B, or C
Green Series 1: Alertness |
Green Series 2: Self-control |
Green Series 3: Gratefulness |
Green Series 4: Humility |
Green Series 5: Meekness |
Green Series 6: Diligence |
Green Series 7: Gentleness |
Green Series 8: Sincerity |
CQLA Level Pre A
Red Series, Blue Series, or Green Series
These 700-800 page worktexts contain all of your 2nd and 3rd graders’ language arts for one year. A gentle, yet thorough introduction to English, with the emphasis on learning to write correct sentences and paragraphs, reviewing phonetic sounds for spelling, learning to take dictation, and organizing information for writing. Specify Red Series, Blue Series (backordered until July), or Green Series, according to whether you have done any colors prior to this and what character qualities you desire to study.
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CQLA Level A
Red Series, Blue Series, or Green Series
These 700 to 900 page worktexts contain all of your 3rd-5th graders’ (depending on abilities) language arts for one year. Continued emphasis on writing with longer original essays including step-by-step instructions, adding more revisions to their essays, and applying their grammar learning to writing. Specify Red Series, Blue Series (backordered until July), or Green Series, according to whether you have done any colors prior to this and what character qualities you desire to study.
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CQLA Level B
Red Series, Blue Series, or Green Series
The CQLA approach continues with nearly 1,000 pages of lessons in each of these Level B worktexts. Your middle school students (grades 6th-8th) will continue to learn excellent communications skills in the same formats as the previous books, with more challenging grammar and composition assignments, the making of grammar cards, and advanced sentence structure usage in their essays. Specify Red Series, Blue Series (backordered in July), and Green Series, according to whether you have done any colors prior to this and what character qualities you desire to study.
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CQLA Level C
Red Series, Blue Series, or Green Series
Your high school student will be challenged in this final level of CQLA with nearly 1,000 pages of lessons in each worktext. Following the same format and approach as the earlier levels, directed essays of six to twelve paragraphs, advanced grammar lessons with more essay applications, and complex sentence structures are added in this level. Specify Red Series, Blue Series, or Green Series, according to whether you have done any volumes prior to this and what character qualities you desire to study.
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CQLA Teacher's Guide
The CQLA Teacher’s Guide is an inexpensive guide to using Character Quality Language Arts. This 300-page spiral bound book contains an overview of the entire program, a “how to” section to instruct parents in how to use the program, a book report guide, complete set of grammar cards (all the grammar rules learned in CQLA on “cards” in alphabetical order), the master Checklist Challenge (showing all editing and revising items taught in CQLA from all levels), a Scope and Sequence chart showing what is taught in which unit, a Content Area and Character Quality Overview Chart (also available at this web site) indicating what Bible and character principles each unit covers, a Frequently Asked Questions section (huge!), a guide to citing sources, a guide to coding/highlighting Checklist Challenge revisions in essays, a detailed homophone chart, a sample from a Level B unit, and a cassette explaining the program (that correlates with the Level B sample)
This entire Teacher’s Guide is for the CQLA teacher to learn to use the program. It is not specific to any one level or any one CQLA book. (Those items are in the Teacher’s Helps and Answer Keys at the end of each unit.) At only $25.00, it is a great way to learn more about CQLA with a minimum investment for those considering making a switch from several other curriculum materials to the all-in-on Character Quality Language Arts. It truly is a writing/grammar handbook, so you can't go wrong with this item!
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CQLA Spelling Notebook
The Spelling Notebook (SN) is a separate book that correlates with CQLA. Over ninety spelling rules are included in the Spelling Notebook, and each page contains a Teacher’s Tip that explains that page’s rule for the teacher. Each week as part of the student’s spelling lesson, he is told to turn to certain pages of the SN containing that week’s rule(s), and record his words in the correct column (g says guh; g says juh, etc.). Only one Spelling Notebook is needed per student for all your student’s CQLA years as it covers spelling rules for grades two through twelve and is made for long-term use.
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