Peter Pan | DIY Language Arts Novel Guide

This novel guide is unique in that it will walk you through a novel (Peter Pan) AND it will teach you the method of how to complete novel studies like this with ANY novel of your choosing.

DIY Language Arts is a name I came up with a few years ago when we let go of the all-in-one language arts programs in our homeschool. The workbooks were feeling like a chore and causing our literature studies to be quite boring and hard to complete. About three years ago, I began researching and studying how to use novel passages to study language arts so that we could have the freedom to read any book that we choose at the pace that we wanted.

This Do-It-Yourself method has been so freeing. Book after book we continue learning all the skills of language arts but it is now fun and engaging. Honestly, it never feels like school. Most days it feels like we have our own little book club.

This guide is meant to be for the whole family, but I’d say it’s best up to age 11/12. Your older children can still participate in these novels, discussions, and passage studies, but I do feel like the writing practice would need to increase.

There are pacing options that you can choose when it comes to reading this particular novel, completing it in 3 weeks, 4 weeks, or 5 weeks.
This specific guide is completed with a 4 day/week schedule and the pacing of the book will allow you to finish it in 4 weeks .

In this guide I will share…

Overview of Language Arts
The background and formation of our DIY Language Arts
Detailed information on how to complete passage study and all the steps involved including: copy work, narration, spelling, vocabulary, writing, grammar, and dictation.
How to plan for your unit
DAILY task sheets to pace you through the entire novel.
Chapter summaries
Discussion questions
Enriching children’s literature to expand this study across multiple subjects (one book per week)
List of spelling activities and games to mix up your lessons
Sample spelling and vocabulary lists
Copy work options for beginning writers and improving writers
DIY Language Arts template to possibly try this method on your own with any novel

To learn more about this guide and to see a complete look-through of a unit just like this, check out this video on YouTube: