Christian Light Education Language Arts Curriculum Review and Look-Through

We've been using Christian Light Education for over a year now. See inside a student workbook and a Teacher's guide. Hear about our experience with it as well as my personal pros and cons.

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[estherjamack]

My children all grew up with CLE. They are adults now. One has a bachelors and one is in a Phd program. It is a good foundation.

[LaciElements]

We moved from The Good and the Beautiful to CLE this year. TGATB was a lot visually. It was also too fluffy for my kids. CLE has been just the thing for them. We have been homeschooling for 18 yrs. This year we are schooling our final two. Both of these kids are on the Autism spectrum with what was known as Asperger Syndrome. The change in progress, retention and joy with the CLE LA, Math and Reading has been amazing.

[worldofweeze]

Thank you for sharing! We have had great success with CLE Learning to Read this year with my daughter, who is in first grade. I have purchased the next level for the year starting this fall and we will also use Language Arts alongside it this year as well. It was nice to see inside the LA units! We are looking forward to it😊

[webeja]

I love CLE! I have been doing their Math with my son for 3 years. We added Reading 2 years ago, and we all love it! I did Learn to Read with my daughter, and then Reading 1 and we enjoyed it. It was a lot of book work, so I am glad she was older. We are continuing Reading 2. If you look at it, it has a lot of language arts, phonics, ect in it. I tried CLE Language Arts with both my kids at different times, and they both felt the lessons were too lengthy and boring. I love the way they are laid out, but school should be fun. We tried a different approach this year, but they both requested Reading again.

[tatyana]

I use their reading program for 3 of my girls and we love it 👍

[breynolds]

I love that you mentioned doing the light units back to back could get a little boring.( that is a good heads up). It makes me feel better about my choice to pair CLE with English Lessons Through Literature by Kathy Jo DeVore. ELTL has poetry, copy work picture study and classic literature selections incorpated into the program. ELTL is a very gentle approach to LA. I am thinking about using CLE as a supplement to make sure my little person comprehends all the concepts. Thanks for the through review!

[driftingforward]

Thank you for sharing, do you have other CLE vlogs? I am teaching 2 kids at once could I use the 1 test for one kid then the alt test for the other kid? because we do them at the table so it would help?

[Tabdoggg]

What is the other writing program u utilize? My lil ones need the extra for this. Wanting to know a good one. ❤️

[Tabdoggg]

Literally just switched curriculum this school year to CLE heard so many awesome things about it! We are fellow Sonlighters.❤️ Did u purchase the extra items that are recommended but not required to utilize it? I’m debating if I should purchase those items. TFS!

[SuperTopher]

Is this a full Language Arts curriculum? Thank you.

[ADs]

I just saw CLE and the program looks good but when I saw the pictures I thought this looks like Amish ? But I read that they are Mennonite . I am looking more into it to see if hopefully this will be a good fit for us