The Relational Homeschooler
Dec. 29, 2006
CQLA Reviews by Cathy Duffy and Christine Field--December 29, 2006

Posted in Character Quality Language Arts

Fellow Bloggers,

I want to share with you our first two reviews for our curriculum, Character Quality Language Arts. This fall two well-known reviewers gave CQLA excellent reviews.

Cathy Duffy, author of
100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum, said the following (among many things) about CQLA:

Most of these resources are among my 100 top picks, so I think Reish has done an excellent job of identifying and adapting the best techniques from the best resources.

I very much like the concept of CQLA. It really does simplify the job for parents by bringing together the best instructional ideas, then organizing the entire thing into fully-developed lessons.

 I also like the common themes running through lessons for all children in the family.


Read Mrs. Duffy's review in total at her site: http://www.cathyduffyreviews.com/grammar-composition/cqla.htm

Christine Field, author of Help for the Harried Homeschooler, soon-to-be-released Homeschooling 101, and several other books for parents, as  well as contributing author to The Old Schoolhouse magazine, reviewed CQLA, loved it, and is using it with her own children! She had the following points to make about CQLA:

Stop searching! In my opinion, Donna Reish has created the perfect language arts curriculum. Truly!

You can stop searching, planning and trying to pull it all together. Mrs. Reish has accomplished what I previously thought impossible through Character Quality Language Arts (CQLA).

Her efforts began over six years ago when she set out to create a program that incorporated the best parts of her favorite programs. She looked at the best parts of Learning Language Arts Through Literature, Play 'n Talk, Spelling Power, Editor-in-Chief, Jensen's Grammar, Easy Grammar, Institute for Excellence in Writing, Writing for 100 Days, and Understanding Writing, and sought to create an all-in-one program that could be taught to multiple levels of children. Sound impossible? We thought so, too, until we studied this fabulous program and chatted with its author.

While we are accustomed to seeing science and history programs offered for large families with multiple ages, CQLA is a revolutionary language arts program designed to meet these needs for this subject area. All of the disciplines of language arts are located in one volume for each year.

The ease of supervising multiple ages with this approach will amaze you.

We especially appreciated two things: the focus on character; and the emphasis, even from early ages, on the development of writing skills. You don't need to be intimidated by language arts.

Bar none, this is the best language arts program we have ever seen.

You may read Mrs. Field's review in full at http://www.thehomeschoolmagazine.com/Homeschool_Reviews/1502.php

You may find out more about CQLA at our family ministry's website www.trainingfortriumphhomeschool.com

Thanks for reading!

Love,
Donna







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Jan. 2, 2007 - What a beautiful family you have!!

Posted by rondahinzman


I just found your blog while searching for info on CQLA, which I just found today. I have never heard of it before even tho' we've homeschooled for 13 years! I'll be reading and rereading your website the next few days!

We've been using worktexts the past 4 years but I'm feeling the nudge to get back to some meatier schooling for next year.

Blessings,
Ronda


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