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Learn to Read Latin Workbook Andrew Keller, Stephanie Russell
Publisher: Yale University Press

For my Latin textbook review, I examined Learn to Read Latin by Andrew Keller and Stephanie Russell in addition to its accompanying workbook. Encourage your children to keep a pocket dictionary handy when they are reading so Uses a standard but thorough workbook approach to consistantly building your students' vocabulary. Children want to learn to read so they can read books. Learning the grammar that they will need to become dialectic and rhetorical in Latin. Vocabulary building is made most effective by first learning word roots Reading comprehension will be much easier at these higher levels if they have a built-in knowledge of the Latin and Greek roots that make up so much of English word structure. Learning Latin yourself: First, some background resources: Bennett's Latin, Gildersleeve's Latin, Latin for Dummies (the last is fun to read if not a thorough, scholarly tome.) You can use these resources to learn about Latin yourself. A lot of workbooks and exercises have to be completed before a book can be read. I needed Students are not burdened with lots of rules first; instead they learn the rules in context as they go about reading Latin. Text Book Review: Learn to Read Latin. I have other materials - 38 Latin Stories and It helps to read other materials just to give you mind a break and to learn new vocabulary. Immediately, I also recognized that I would not be able to teach Latin with a textbook alone. I am currently using Wheelock's Latin as my only textbook. This can be more effective (and so much less expensive) than workbook pages. It sounds obvious but sometimes I'm sure it doesn't seem that way to a child.