Selections from Blue Willow, by Doris Gates

     These passages were selected and submitted by a member of Ambleside Online. She noted that home schoolers use them for copywork, and stated that

     The way that home schoolers might approach this, at least sometimes, is to have the child copy the passage for copywork, then later analyze the passage for grammar (later in the day, later in the week, or even the following week). Another thing that many home schoolers do is use the copywork passage for dictation, which is where the parent reads the passage and the child writes it, trying his or her best to get spelling, punctuation and so on perfect.  So after using the passage for copywork and then grammar, the child could then write the passage as the parent dictates it.