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Just an idea needed on how long it takes your DC to do a level. We are on A book and take about two days to do a level/lesson (15 min per day).

 

Can you give me an idea of how many min your DC works and how much they get through? I suspect the writing is slowing down DS and I will need to adjust our schedule some. I'm just wanting an estimate to help me schedule better. I originally planned on 4 lesson/levels a week. Now it's more like two.

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My last 3 started level A in second grade and work through 2 levels a week.  We do half a lesson/level a day and take off one day a week.  So, they finish a book a year.

 

Your pace is fine.  I would rather pull my eye lashes out one at a time then do more than 1/2  a lesson and I have no idea how kids who struggle with spelling could do a whole lesson a day. 

 

For the record, I am now on my fourth child doing the program and I am very pleased with the results (always doing 1/2 a lesson a day).  They are not Spelling Bee winner level spellers, but are at least average for their age.

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Ok. I wasn't certain how long it'd take so I scheduled 4 lessons/levels in a week. As we've been working over the last two weeks it's much slower, probably like your experiences.

 

We switched over from AAS, which we didn't really like. DS doesn't like A&P either, but he hates it less. I was worried all the writing was slowing us down. DS is most behind in spelling (about a year), and I'm going to try to continue sight words as well until I see how A&P works for us.

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I work mine by pages not levels as it is easier to schedule. My 4th grader doing level A does 1 page(1 side only) per day and takes maybe 10 min. She is actually my faster worker. My 12yo is finishing up Level D and can now do a page front and back at a time, we didn't start until he was 10 I think with Lev. b, I don't know that he could have handled the writing before then.

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We're in A and still doing a lesson a day, but now that it's taking FOREVER to complete the lesson, and he's needing multiple breaks, I've just this week decided to change it up. I think I'm switching to half a lesson a day and we'll try to do it 6 days a week. Half a lesson should take about 15 minutes because he shouldn't need the breaks, or at least one one.

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