If you have experience with CAP W&R

[Janeway]

If you use this..how quickly do you do it? One lesson in a week? Do you complete it with back to back lessons every day and every week or do you spread it out more? Do you use more than one book in a year?

[tmstranger]

I used it a few years ago, but only did one book.  I believe it is intended to be 2 books/year.  I did one lesson each week following the sample schedule that was in the book.  I can't remember if it was in the teacher guide or student book, but I remember a "sample" of how a week would look. 

 

Of course, you can do whatever works for you! :)

[RootAnn]

I only used one book (Narrative 2?), but we only worked on it twice per week for 15-20 minutes. So, we aren't model users.

 

It wasn't a good fit for the student who used it so we didn't stick with it. The readings were interesting, though.

[Janeway]

What did you both end up doing?

 

This is sort of our try it out and see time. So far, it seems neat, but it has only been one day.

[ScoutTN]

We have used two books and just worked at the student's pace 3 or 4x a week for a ser amount of time. Finished in about a semester each time.

 

Enjoyable and enriching, but not very challenging for this particular kid.

Edited September 27, 2016 by ScoutTN

[Targhee]

There's a rough pacing guide in the books.

 

We used books 1-2 three times a week to cover 1 chapter. Books 3-4 four times a week to cover 1 chapter a week (roughly).

 

It is intended to be alternated with grammar (e.g. 1 week writing then 1 week grammar). We did MCT grammar for about 6 weeks with no writing, then the pace I mentioned above.

 

ETA we might be "slow" because DS resists writing so much. But he prefers W&R to anything else we tried.

Edited September 27, 2016 by Targhee

[AdventuresinHomeschooling]

We took a year for the first book as an intro, but we will get through two books this year. Each lesson takes about a week, but sometimes I spread it out more depending on our workload.

[tmstranger]

What did you both end up doing?

 

This is sort of our try it out and see time. So far, it seems neat, but it has only been one day.

 

We did IEW and then WWS.  W&R was just not a good fit for that child and I didn't think it would be good for my younger one, though I heavily considered it because I did like myself. 

[RootAnn]

I haven't really found anything between the level of Treasured Conversations/WWE/Writing Tales and high school level writing that works for us.

I've tried a bunch of things including Classical Writing Homer & WWS. Homer didn't work for me. Two of my kids have done some or most of WWS1, depending on the kid.

 

Right now, dd#2 is in an online literature analysis class where they work on grammar & writing solid paragraphs - building up to lit analysis essays. Dd#3 is doing a vintage writing program called School Composition (available free on Google Books, I think, although I ordered a hard copy from Amazon). She's not loving it, but I have her in a holding pattern waiting for her to be old enough for WWS1. Will probably try WWS1 (maybe online class) next year. We'll see. She's the one I did W&R with last year. She would much rather be writing across the curriculum.

 

I don't know what I'll do with the boys when I start them on a writing program. (They are still at the learning-to-spell and learning-to-write stages.)

[Clear Creek]

If you use this..how quickly do you do it? One lesson in a week? Do you complete it with back to back lessons every day and every week or do you spread it out more? Do you use more than one book in a year?

 

We do one lesson a week, spread out over five days. With my 4th grader I am alternating lessons in Fable with a week of written narrations (just a couple, not every day). Knowing how difficult the upper level books get, I only plan on using the one book with him this year. From 5th grade on up we complete two books per year. My 7th grader is using books 6&7 this year, as well as a separate English grammar program.

[UCF612]

We don't have a set schedule for it. At the start of each lesson I mark stopping points. Then he just works on that secton. How often he works varies based on other things we're doing. Since we also do ELTL I try not to overload him. That's no help I'm sure. He averages a lesson a week I think roughly.

[Incognito]

Roughly 1 lesson is completed in a week.  If there is more writing, it takes a bit longer.  Less writing, shorter.  We don't do it 5 days a week, though.  I'd say 3-4.

 

[Chelli]

I have writing scheduled for three days a week.

 

I time our subjects so for my 7th grader, she spends 30 minutes working on W&R and my 4th grader spends 20 minutes working on it. They average about a lesson a week doing it this way.

 

I am also teaching W&R at a homeschool co-op this year to two age levels so I guess that would count as a 4th day, but we mainly just share our writing and answers from the workbook and I spend the last half of class teaching things they will need to know from the next lesson. For the class my 7th grader is in, I'm using W&R as a way to write about literature since the kids all take a literature class after my class. The literature and i collaborated and all the W&R assignments are tweaked to come from the books they are reading for her class. It's been a really fun way to do W&R.