StephenMunday Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 I'm hoping for some sage advice here from those of you who are further down the road than we are. My eldest son is 9 and is getting near the end of WWE 3. He is a visual (almost photographic) learner, but is not so strong on the auditory side, so he does find the dictation requires a little more effort than he is used to having to expend. I have read around the interwebs that WWE4 is optional and that it is possible to move to the next level after WWE3 which, I believe, is Writing With Style. However, I have also read that some younger children may not be ready for this next step. To give a little more information about my son, he is also using Wordly Wise 3000 online at grade 5 level, and seems to have little difficulty with it or with books such as The Diary of Anne Frank, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Uncle Tom's Cabin etc. So, here are my questions: Would you recommend moving to WWE4 or Writing With Style as the next step? Alternatively, would you recommend an alternate program as "filler" between those two and, if so, which one that would be? I appreciate the input! Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Can he comfortably write a paragraph? That seems to be a recommended milestone for starting WWS. There is a pinned thread at the top of the K-8 Curriculum board, "If you are using WWE or WWS..." That thread contains the author's thoughts on what to do between the two programs. We are only just ahead of you, so I'm just telling you what I've picked up in prep for us. We've been mixing WWE 4 in with some Bravewriter projects and the Sentence Composing books. I think the summary and dictation skills in WWE are important, even though they are hard, but my dc would burn out doing only that every week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 I would not put a 9 year old into WWS. My recommendation would be to spend some time working through School Composition, a free, vintage writing book by William Henry Maxwell. It teaches similar skills to WWS but in a much more accessible way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel Mertz Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 I wouldn't put a 9 year old into WWS either. I'd alternate WWE 4 with Writing & Rhetoric (Classical Academic Press) or Bravewriter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmstranger Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 My almost 12 yo is just starting WWS and I posted over the summer about how hard it looked to me. :) He's only on week 5, but last week's assignment was to write a paper of 150-300 words. It is not all original content, but the shear volume of writing is a lot. We split that into two days, but either way, it's a lot of writing in one sitting for him. Just something to consider if you want to pursue WWS. What about IEW? I think that is recommended as one of the filler options for in between years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Agreed, I wouldn't go straight from WWE3 into WWS with a 9 year old 4th grader (although that is what I did with my oldest dd). I would do CAP"s Writing & Rhetoric Book 3 (Narrative 2) as a nice transition before starting WWS. Although I'd skip the outlining of stories like The Three Little Pigs in Narrative 2. But the rest of it is a good transition, offering work on constructing paragraphs and refining narrative and descriptive writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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