What about creative or expository writing

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Permalink Reply by Deborah on April 2, 2009 at 3:02pm

The middle grades version of WWE (Writing With Skills) will strongly emphasize outlining. Just FYI. I wonder when it will come out.....

Deborah

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Permalink Reply by Hidden Jewel on April 2, 2009 at 3:05pm

The middle school level is the one I am really curious to see!

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Permalink Reply by siloam on April 2, 2009 at 4:35pm

Yes I can't wait to hear or see something!!!

I tired doing CW Aesop without the outlining and ended up with page long paragraphs (oh joy!). It is a mis-match with WTM philosophy though.

Right now I am trying to decide if I want to use the workbook for WWE 2 (love the scripting) or go with my own thing. It drives me nuts to get in the middle of a story and end.

I also considered the primer series for CW, but given they don't have any narration helps (that I can see) and I don't need the grammar they include (doing FLL and SL LA) I might as well just do it on my own. If I didn't have stuff on the shelves to use it would be a different story.

Heather

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Permalink Reply by Janet K. Coile on January 3, 2010 at 5:41pm

Heather, Just wanted to let you know that WWE is going well, but it seems like we are going to take forever doing this book and maybe we don't need ALL that practice doing dictation, copywork and summarizing. Any suggestions for me about moving faster or knowing if I should skip some exercises or move to the next level at some point. We are doing WWE II Thanks! Janet

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Permalink Reply by siloam on January 3, 2010 at 6:11pm

Janet,

I have my 10yo doing it at double time. Though I still have her to all of it. I am not sure how you would cut it back. I know there are a few history models that aren't that popular, so maybe skip those?

If everything seems to be clicking then you might want to try the hardback book instead of WWE III. They have 6 or 8 weeks of samples in there, and they show each progression that happens through the year where in the workbooks you have extra models for practice. You might see if they can just do the samples next time, and if they can you could wrap up all of WWE with the hardback. If they are younger you could do some lapbooking or something else that is similar for writing. That is what I did with my oldest who just got how to summarize.

Heather

Permalink Reply by Hidden Jewel on February 18, 2009 at 1:52pm

Writing With Ease is first on my list for early elementary.

I have a love/hate relationship with Classical Writing but it is a good fit for my oldest. We'll see how it goes with dd#2 who is completely different.

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Permalink Reply by Coffee Lover on February 26, 2009 at 4:01pm

Comments from a fellow struggler, here - DS, age 9, very smart, just was not getting it on spelling until I switched to AAS. He did copywork most days and hated it. Fill in a blank to complete a sentence was just beyond him. Write a sentence was way beyond him. After Step 20 of Level 1, I had a writing assignment to write a sentence about each animal on a list of 9. It almost killed him, but he did it, with only asking a few times for spelling of a word. It was amazing! That was last week. Yesterday he wrote six sentences on his own, and today he wrote four. I am so pleased. I think not being able to spell anything was a huge hindrance to his writing overall. Thank you, Marie, for your hand in this success.

Another Janet

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Permalink Reply by Hidden Jewel on February 26, 2009 at 4:02pm

Janet, That is so awesome!

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Permalink Reply by Merry on February 26, 2009 at 5:30pm

Wow, Janet, that's so exciting! I'm so happy for you!

Merry :-)

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Permalink Reply by Bcontent on March 15, 2009 at 8:06pm

I just read this comment. This is a wonderful thing! What a testiment!

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Permalink Reply by Tamara Villaluz on April 22, 2009 at 12:19am

I have tried almost all the writing programs available (Writing Strands, Writeshop, Jump In, Wordsmith, etc.) and finally found something we like. It is called Meaningful Composition and is put out by the people who do CQLA. It is a little bit like IEW, but easier to implement. I am using it with my 16dd and 14ds.

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