Jump to content

Menu

Misc questions in one post. Hunting stuff! Math, Wordly Wise etc.


Emagine
 Share

Recommended Posts

Greetings fine peeps! I did not want to flood the board with small posts so I thought I would do one and see how it goes. I am a year round homeschooler so 'our year' will academically start back up in January. We are not huge box, textbook people and approach our style as more eclectic in nature. I have two boys, 14 and 10, on the spectrum. 

 

We will be doing TTB as they have always done this and enjoy it. However, I am going to slow my 10 year old down. He is reaching some ADHD/ASD mixed with early hormones that are making something really difficult. He is smart but focusing issues right now are problematic. He is also starting TTB 7. I was thinking of slowing him down to stretch that out so by the time he is going into 7th (late birthday) he will then start Pre-Algebra. What I would love to do here is find a workbook that would allow him at whim to 'do it on paper' because he has problems showing his work. However, I must not be googling correctly because I do not want an elementary workbook nor a whole years worth of something like Singapore. He also will willingly pop on and do things like Khan etc. I just want something to say hey lets do a couple of problems today in black and white based on his level. 

 

Second, my 14 year old, also ASD is wanting to switch to Easy Grammar. I am not complaining. He grasps this well. He can diagram a sentence like no tomorrow etc. I was looking at the plus and can not seem to find the correct answer on how many lessons, tests etc there are. He likes grammar and enjoys doing it. 

 

Wordlywise3k online, do I have to pick a grade or will it figure out where the child is level wise? I can not seem to find recent reviews about this. Audio, visual is a bonus for my two. 

 

Both boys need help due to their communication delays that has carried over into writing. The day is heck if we have to do this. I am prepping them for the year of the pencil. We have been in OT & PT. Their spelling eeek, retention wise is poor. We have used AAS, Spelling Workout, games you name it. When they are ready it will click, till then we keep throwing mud at the wall and wait for it to stick. This year I wish to add more in the way of copywork. My oldest has a fond liking to cursive now and it looks beautiful compared to his print. Problem is he connects everywordtotheother. <--- Is there a free site or a book that has print outs we can use? 

 

Mercy, that is a lot. Just like many of you in the summer prepping I am now only my focus is changing somewhat with the needs. Open for suggestions. 

 

Warmly,

Emagine

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This would have been a better post on LC.  Come over and talk with us.  We don't bite.  Some of us seldom come over to K-8.  

 

As far as actually answering your questions, well I'd rather do it over there if you come over.  You put TTB.  You mean Teaching Textbooks?  (TT)  IEW has a free online worksheet generator that would let you spit out extra worksheets by topic.  I did math with my dd at that age/stage on a whiteboard.  I love the 16X20 size.  Like I own a pile of them, LOVE them.

 

For the language stuff, I'd be wanting to see recent language testing scores before I answered that.  Have they had the CELF or CASL or something similar in the last couple years?  Have they had intervention?  There's an ASD-specific material, TML (Teach Me Language) that is the bees' knees.  

 

For the writing, again I'm going to go back to language testing. Are they diagnosing SLD?  How is their IQ?  Nurturing Narratives (available at SocialThinking.com) is your therapy level intervention. Also TML is going to help on writing, vocab, etc.  Personally, I like a multi-pronged approach.  I agree with NN that you can't get out on paper/screen what isn't coming out as a narrative (verbal, whatever) to start with.  Are they verbal?  

 

Fwiw, my ds has ASD, ADHD, the three SLDs, and apraxia.  So we kinda hit it on a lot of levels and keep running into things.  Really, each person's mix is different, like where the glitch is occurring.  That's why I'm saying I would go back, look at your evals, look at your recent data, and figuring out what's holding them back.  With my ds, I've had to do language intervention using therapy materials.  We need to do more, sigh.  But even though it seems like a never-ending pit, there's a also a sense in which some, when it's really the right timing, can be phenomenally helpful and unlock some things.  I *like* therapy materials and I like things from Social Thinking.com  I *don't* like most homeschool materials, unless they're used with modification.  

 

Ok, for instance.  Can your dc answer a wh-question?  That's a language issue, like being able to answer where, who, what, etc. correctly.  If they aren't yet, from a language perspective, answering those questions, they can't understand something that BUILDS on the questions like grammar, where the most effective, simple way to get there is to ask a question to find the answer.  To analyze with a definition, so ugly.  Q&A flow is brilliant.  (I'm really partial to Shurley, personally, though Winston is popular.)

 

So that's why you're always going back and saying ok is the issue something for which I need therapy materials or curriculum, because curriculum is usually very painful, with big steps and lots of assumptions, compared to therapy materials for the same skill.  

 

There are also some materials that have a really good track record with kids with ASD, SLDs, etc.  Come hang on LC and gab with people.  You can also do a good site search to find things.  Like say you search "asd writing site:welltrainedmind.com" using your google browser.  That will turn up hits.  Then maybe you'll go Oh, MountainMisty had posts that kinda seem like my kids, and I want to read more about her!  So then you might google search "MountainMisty writing site:welltrainedmind.com"  Obviously we have a search engine on the boards, but site searching is a POWERFUL tool.  It lets you see more posts by people so you can see how their approach fit together and find things you weren't anticipating.  It lets you access the wisdom of the past, even if those people aren't on here today.   :)  There's a lot of flux on the boards, with people going in and out, retiring.  Come hang on LC, read, talk with people, see what you can sort out.   :)

Edited by OhElizabeth
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

 Share

×
×
  • Create New...