From Colonies to Country: Elementary Grades Student Study Guide, A History of U.S. Book 3

This is excellent material overall for ensuring comprehension of the Joy Hakim series. We homeschool and are using this set as grade 5. My son enjoys is dyslexic, enjoys history, and struggles with reading comprehension and writing. Despite that, he mostly enjoys this study guide and it challenges his writing skills.However, there are some flaws to this guide. Some chapters' questions will ask things that were not covered either in the chapter, the chapters previous, nor are something that could have been deduced from the content. I initially thought my kiddo was just missing the info and told him to go read again. But after going over these questions myself, as well as the textbooks, I found they really were not there. Sometimes we would dig into the internet or reference books to determine it, sometimes we would skip it.Also, our book is completely missing the pages for Chapters 40/41, the last two chapters in the book, as well as the "scorecard" page. It went directly from Chapter 40 to the Library Research Log Pages.Despite these shortcomings (and admittedly they are big mistakes) this guide is still an excellent accompanying book to go with Hakim's history text.

I really liked this in theory. I think it might be a bit advanced and dry for my fourth grader. I know it says grade five on the cover but I was hoping it would work. We enjoy the book that this accompanies, this just didn’t work for us. I might still be able to use the vocabulary and pieces of it. I think it would be alright for a 6th grade student.

I am pleased with how this book offers opportunities for the student to think and expand on ideas from the book.

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Would be nice to have an answer section to double check the work.