The Good and the Beautiful Language Arts & Literature Level Three Course Book

The Good and the Beautiful Language Arts Level 3

by Jenny Phillips

This beautiful and academically strong course covers phonics, writing, spelling, grammar, usage, punctuation, vocabulary, geography, and art appreciation and instruction. The open-and-go course book includes 120 parent-guided lessons, which also contain independent work for the child. The 318 full-color pages are filled with beautiful literature, magnificent art, and connected learning.

I Sat by the Sea: A Poetry Collection for Elementary-Aged Children and the Level 3 Reader are also needed to complete the course.

318 pages
Full color
Wire bound, 8.5″x11″

332 pages, Spiral-bound

Published May 1, 2020

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

As a Christian songwriter and music producer, Jenny Phillips has released over 27 albums and has shared her love of music across the world, speaking at over 1,100 events in 23 countries and selling over a million CDs. In order to reduce the stress and time commitments that naturally come with a music label, and so she could focus more on her young family, Jenny left her music label in 2011. She now offers her music for free on www.hislightmusic.com.

When Jenny's children began going to school, she turned toward another one of her passions—education. Jenny began homeschooling in an effort to provide a faith-based, high-academic education focused on building noble character. Not wholly satisfied with any curriculum she could find and deeply concerned about the loss of good literature in our world, she founded The Good and the Beautiful.

Jenny lives in Utah with her husband and five children. In addition to music, motherhood, and good literature, Jenny loves family history, gardening, traveling, and exercising. She is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but she enjoys working with people of many faiths as she shares her multi-denominational curriculum, rejoicing in the common good that all Christians share.

(from https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/about/)

Reviews

[Mary Ellen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This curriculum provides positive messages as children work on their reading and writing skills. I personally feel it is inadequate curriculum on its own, however. I rely heavily on material made by public school teachers on Teachers Pay Teachers to provide what I feel is lacking. I know a lot of people don’t like Common Core, but I actually think it’s fantastic. I wish the curriculum used in public schools were available for parents. I would love to have access to 95% for reading and I-ready for Math.

I can’t find Simply Good and Beautiful Math on Goodreads, so I’ll leave a review of that here as well. It gets a 2.5 star review from me. I do love the fun little stories and activities. My daughter especially loves the little puzzles at the end of each lesson. However, once again, the lessons are not adequate on their own.
The thing most lacking is multiplication. The curriculum glosses over multiplication entirely. The students are just meant to memorize multiplication 1-12 through songs. There is one song for every times table. “9x9 is 81, 81 beats upon my drum.”We tried the songs. My daughter absolutely hates them. It wasn’t until I got my hands on a common core workbook at the DI that I realized that we needed to approach math the way she was learning it in public school. Learning all the different ways to solve a multiplication problem (using arrays, number lines, skip counting, adding to subtract, rounding, etc.) has helped me look at multiplication entirely different. I am glad we are still doing testing through the state so that I can make sure I am keeping up with public school standards. I am also very grateful that I have elementary school teacher friends that I can talk to to help me think of better ways to teach. I am also grateful that our city provides free math tutoring programs. If I continue homeschooling next year, I will skip The Good and the Beautiful Math entirely.

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

Totally forgot to update this one. The cover shows an older version, but I'm reviewing the current version. My daughter loved the video lessons and the books that coincided with the lessons and made it easy to incorporate geography into her math and language arts. Though I didn't enjoy Timothy of the 10th Floor (I have many complaints I'll save for that book review), we loved reading Heather and the Highland Pony as well as The Journey of 5. I love the messages of goodness and the importance of family woven deep into the lessons. My daughter always looks forward to language arts and discovering the beauty of the written word.

[Danielle Huston · Rating 3 out of 5]

In the level three personal reader, titled "How Native Americans lived" written by Lucille Wallower, I was taught many things about Eastern Woodland Native Americans. I learned how they made sugar, what their houses looked like, what clothes they wore, what they ate and about their beliefs. I liked the book because it was interesting. I recommend this book to others! (This personal reader is a part of the Level 3 curriculum).
-Khloe, Age 8

[Helen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Awful

[Ashley Jewett · Rating 5 out of 5]

We absolutely love the Level 3 unit! My child enjoys each of the lessons and the book is beautiful.

[L · Rating 4 out of 5]

M1 (3rd grade reading)