hands-on-mama Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Anyone have reviews on this? Someone on Facebook suggested possibly combining my older 2nd grader and my almost 4th grader in this. Do you love it? Does it i Clyde diagramming. Any input appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyLife Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 I'm interested, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexi Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 I have a review on my blog. I'll have to come back when I find the link. You can search for it though. I'll try to come back and answer in more detail when I'm at my computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexi Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Here are links to my review and how I adapted the program to our homeschool. Now that I'm at my computer I can reply. I found that in the first book there were tons of review worksheets. It was quite a bit actually. So I wrote how I broke them up and used them on my own schedule. That worked better for us. I think you could combine your kids in the program. I was actually considering combining my soon to be 4th grader with his 3rd grade sister. I think it would actually be more fun to have kids doing a level together so you could do the chanting and oral parts more together or they could take turns for things. I can see how it would work well in a classroom setting. Overall, I liked the program. The first part of the lesson has quite a bit of text so that is a lot of reading to a student. My son had trouble focusing during that part so I had to keep his hands busy while I read the lesson to him. However, since he is an auditory learner it worked well. I liked being able to do quite a bit of the program aloud. My son doesn't love to write he so was glad it was easy to do a lot of things orally. If you have any other specific questions, let me know and I'll try to help. I've only used 1A though. I'm about to get 2A to try that one to see how it's different. I heard they were going to move some of the teacher pages around and make some small changes like that. I'm hoping I like that better. I sometimes felt I was flipping back and forth quite a bit between pages. So, I'm really excited to look through 2A and see what I think! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CherryBlossomMJ Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Here is mine. I reviewed Level A and also have beta Level B in hand. http://creativemadnessmama.com/blog/tag/language-arts/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyLife Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Thanks for the reviews! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fralala Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 I just received this (haven't used it yet) and have to say that the two above reviews are great and spot-on. Thank you so much! The thing that I am liking about it from reading the teacher's manual is that although it is a very scripted program (as written), it is so meaty and jam-packed with different ideas for practice that I can already see how we might make it our own. Level 1A would be fine for my second grader. I will combine my kids for the introductory reading and choral repetition. I'm not so sure about the written and verbal practice, just based upon my own kids' competitive spirit and the inferiority complex of the younger. Maybe I'll split them up for that or go over their written work individually. There's actually enough material in the teacher's guide that it seems I could assign each of them a different written assignment, or do a different game or activity with each of them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyLife Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Level 1A would be fine for my second grader. A second grader when they begin? Does this child have any previous grammar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 I bought it but am not using it. From what I have read it appears overly complicated. I was hoping for something skin to Writing and Rhetoric, which is engaging, easy to use and worth while. I ended up using FLL instead, although we didn't care for level 1 we are enjoying level 4 and plan to move on to ALL. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fralala Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 A second grader when they begin? Does this child have any previous grammar? Yes, and yes. We've already covered the parts of speech and parts of the sentence. I should have qualified that a bit by saying that, as with all grammar programs, it would probably be best for a child who has been reading fluently for several years. I think the online sample at CAP contains part of the chapter on Adverbs, which in my opinion would be the most difficult to grasp. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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