Would FLL 4 work for starting in the middle with 5th & 6th graders?

[skimerinkydo]

Would FLL 4 work for 5th-6th graders new to things like narration, dictation and diagraming? It will be the first year homeschooling with the 6th grader who likes to write and the 3rd year homeschooling with the 5th grader who has pencil phobia (...he is just finishing Writing Strands 2 and English for the Thoughtful child 2). If not, any other suggestions that would be secular (we are limited because of using a charter school).

[Susan Wise Bauer]

in fact, it sounds as if it would be a good fit. But I think it would be a little elementary for your sixth grader.

 

Have you looked at Analytical Grammar?

[PeterPan]

I'd put both of them in Writing Tales 2. I've been doing it with my dd this year as well as a co-op class of 3rd-6th graders. The 6th grader has enjoyed it and it's not beneath her. I also had them do editing first semester using Take 5 Minutes Daily History Editing (or use any product you like). 2nd semester I added in Shurley Grammar with my dd, just doing the Q&A flow with the sentences in the practice booklet (3 a day, nothing major or time-consuming).

 

I would also require other forms of writing. VP sells grade-leveled book reports books that are excellent, and they could do lit guides by VP or Progeny Press. And of course there are the normal subject narrations and dictation. With the daily editing, I had my dd edit and then rewrite the sample correctly (copywork). We get in dictation with our spelling, don't know what you have planned for that.

 

WT2 is tons of fun and your dc will enjoy it. Since you have two, they'll be able to play the games together (nothing hard to prep, but very fun!). You're going to love it. I find that my precocious writers enjoy the opportunities for creativity and the strugglers like not having to think up content.