JMG221 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 My 6 year old daughter is starting WWE2. We wrapped up 1 before Christmas and I was planning on waiting a bit before starting but she has been BEGGING to start it since resuming school at the beginning of the year. It is one of her favorite curricula items we use. Anyway, she did great with her first narration and takes pride in her neat copywork but she just doesnt seem ready for the dication mainly due to spelling. It is such a stretch for her her to spell the words it stresses her out and is the only thing she focuses on. I dont want to ask her to do something she is incapable of (although she is reading at a good early 2nd grade level she spells more on a K level) but I also want to keep her enthusiasm for the other aspects of the program alive. I was considering 3 different things and wanted to get some thoughts about them. 1. Pull another sentence from the excerpt and keep doing copywork instead of dication. 2. Coming up with sentence for dication of similar length and complexity using easier for her to spell words. 3. Just dropping the writing aspect that day and having her write in either science or history. Thought? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiara.I Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 How about: Use the format of WWE and pull your own selections from whatever you're reading with her and stay at the copywork level for a while. When she's ready for more spelling, move back into WWE2. That way you have it when she's ready and won't be duplicating the selections. Sent from my ONEPLUS A5000 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carriede Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I spell the words for them. WWE dictation is a writing lesson, not a spelling lesson. DS8 will ask me how to spell the word once he gets to it. If he misspell a word after trying to spell it on his own, I do make him fix it. But overall, spelling is not the focus of our dictation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carriede Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 How about: Use the format of WWE and pull your own selections from whatever you're reading with her and stay at the copywork level for a while. When she's ready for more spelling, move back into WWE2. That way you have it when she's ready and won't be duplicating the selections. Sent from my ONEPLUS A5000 using Tapatalk I think this would be best for a 6 year old. Accelerating WWE is not necessarily a good thing in the long term. Many people actually slow done with level 3 and stretch it out over 1.5-2 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ealp2009 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 We just started WWE 2 too and I try to spell out the words I think my child will have trouble with. I think it says that in WWE. It is not meant to be a test of spelling. Good luck. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMG221 Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 Thanks for all the ideas!I figure we will have to slow down at some point but I want to wait until we naturally hit that wall in narration. She learns in spurts so I want to take advantage of her eagerness. Even if we use the passages JUST for that it is worth it foe me. I definitely get that it is not about spelling but she makes it that way when she get anxious about spelling. I like the idea of writing the words she will struggle with out for her. I think that might work well. She can hold the whole sentence in her head and get most of the mechanics down so it might be an appropriate accommodation. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I pre-spell troublesome words for my dc. Another method you could consider is a variation on "studied dictation" here is an old thread that discusses it: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/299296-wwes-dictation-v-studied-dictation/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiara.I Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 In my experience, the wall you hit may be dictation, not narration. Sent from my ONEPLUS A5000 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMG221 Posted January 17, 2018 Author Share Posted January 17, 2018 Writing the troublesome words ahead of time worked well. She did great. Thanks :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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