This year we are going to try out Moving Beyond the Page for language arts units that coincide with our history or science read alouds, also fix-it grammar 2 and tgatb handwriting.
I wish I had writing recs for your oldest. We love IEW and I’m praying that just carries us through high school. I thought about taking two years of high school and reading lamplighter books then having them wrote stories on the virtues they learned about and breaking down the character, storyline, and Godly principles they read about.
We’re the same way about writing. My least favorite to teach. I was intrigued when Stephanie shared about cover story also. Can’t wait to hear what you think about it.
TOTALLY with you on rolling over curriculum into the new school year! We'll definitely be doing this with my 11 year old son in his technical 6th grade year next year. Also completely with you on outsourcing writing 😬 I already pick and choose between a million tiny battles during the day, I'm refusing to get in the middle of one on writing with my kiddos. This choices look really great, I'd love to see your review on Beowulf Grammar once you get into it! I feel like I see this curriculum everywhere the last couple of years. I'm deciding still on my upcoming 2nd grader for a potential grammar curriculum next year, I may have to dig into this one.
It’s so great that we have the freedom to take our time with curriculums when needed and we don’t have to buy all new stuff each year! But we also can if we want ☺️ more freedom I love I’m homeschooling!
I’m thinking we MAY try Writeshop for high school. We used one of the jr levels and it was fun but very teacher intensive so I’m not sure how the upper levels are. I may also look into well trained mind
So glad I found you and the other RU-vidrs you mentioned. I’m looking for my son who’s entering 8th grade and loathes writing (paragraphs take him forever), and spelling (spelling is pretty terrible) and am coming up short…plus budget is an issue and some are so pricey.
It is hard when they are struggling in those things and you are going into 8th. My 2 recommendations for struggling writers and spellers are both kind of pricey… that being said, they could both be easily spread out over 2 years. I would suggest trying the IEW Structure and Style. We did that over 1 1/2 years and it improved my daughter’s wring so much. And spelling you see has just been the best spelling we have done, but definitely don’t go too high of a level in that one. Both are too intense full on to do a level in one year with a struggling child imo.
@@CalmintheChaosHomeschool thank you, I have heard a lot about IEW but haven’t tried it and we did all about spelling for years but never spelling you see. My oldest has struggled with most everything except science and history since the beginning (he’s always been homeschooled). He’s not incapable he just takes way longer and lacks that internal motivation with subjects like writing and math. I’ll check those out. If they help they are worth the price.
@kara8911 I hope you find things that work. Here is my review of the IEW that helped my daughter so much back when she did it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bDuA8-AxbcQ.htmlsi=81iEla0uov4yJFMt
@@CalmintheChaosHomeschool I’ll check that out. Thank you! I also appreciate that you are one of the few who talks about not feeling like you must finish a curriculum in one year.
We loved Cover Story! Really enjoyed the videos. Just a warning that a couple of the stories he has the kids read are upsetting. I’d recommend pre-reading if your daughter is sensitive. (I wish I had.) I think I’m going to try Byline (also from Clearwater) for my rising 9th grader next. It looks excellent!
That's great! And good to know about the content. My daughter will be fine, as she is not sensitive (will probably appreciate "edgier" topics) :) I love that you liked it well enough to do it again!
I just came across Literary Adventures for Kids, which looks like some really great book studies that could be good for your crew. They call them book clubs, but they aren't. They go all the way up to highschool and there were a lot of choices. I have decided to use Essentials in Literature for my high schooler next year, along with Essentials in Writing and Fix-it grammar. I always stayed away from EIW before because i didn't like the grammar, but since the high school levels don't spend much time on it, i think it will work with some modifications.
I LOVE the look of Cover Story for my youngest. I've already committed to what she is using for 9th grade, but I may look into this for 10th grade. I think she will enjoy the projects, and she is a BIG creative writer. We will see. I already purchased the new Not Consumed creative writing course that she may use instead of Cover Story. Who knows?! LOL
Nothing wrong with taking longer on a writing curriculum!!! My older kids take their time with writing and it’s working!!! My oldest’s teacher teaches writing in small chunks and it’s helping him!!! We struggled with writing for my 16 year old so we outsourced!!! Our cover school we just switched to told me that grammar doesn’t relle go into middle school and grammar in middle school is mainly review!!! Idk how true that is!!! This year my older kids didn’t do grammar but I expected to see good grammar in their writing!!! We focus on vocabulary in science and other areas where we need to!!! We did compass classroom vocabulary!!! I have older kids who need extra phonics work!!! I use read aloud time to listen to them read and they do phonics curriculum!!!i have dyslexic kids who struggle hearing sounds and breaking up sounds!!!
Did what vocabulary did you do with Compass Classroom? Was it Word Up? That was a fun course :) and what phonics curriculum do you do with your older kids?
@@CalmintheChaosHomeschool word up and I just get my older kids to read the pages from the ordinary parents guide to teaching reading where they need extra help!!!
I’m not buying new curriculum till the beginning of June so I’m still not 100% set BUT for my 6th grade son I’m thinking IEW we used EIW this year and I’ve been extremely disappointed in the program. For my Kindergartner I will be using Logic of English
Thank you! I’m not a big fan on all-in-ones and we just did The Pilgrims Progress in our morning basket… so I don’t think for 9th grade. Maybe I’ll look again in 10th.
Unless your son is amazing at grammar, I would honestly start at level 1. Each level builds on each other. You could go through at double time until this got a bit more difficult. If he’s ok at grammar, level 2 could be an ok start, but I hear that things really pick up at level 3.
