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Hi, Beth -- This link will take you to an overview of what is taught in all four levels. This list is from The Complete Writer, which is a guide to teaching elementary students how to write. You can use this book and create your own dictation, narration, and copywork, OR you can have all that work done for you by using each of the workbooks, which contain both student and instructor material. If you get the workbooks, you do not need The Complete Writer, although that book does provide additional insights...it's a nice supplement. We don't have a scope and sequence document for WWE. --Helpdesk

Here is Susan Wise Bauer's recommendation for those using WTM curriculum. https://support.welltrainedmind.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011380674-Where-to-start-in-all-Language-Arts

It took us three days to do all the tour, because we spent time at each locale. Very much worth the time. Younger kids might enjoy the Junior Ranger Program from the National Parks service.

Well, I will FIX that!! Thank you for letting me know.

At the top of this forum, there's a locked thread that has updated information about using WWS. At the end of the linked article, there's a grid that shows different scenarios for using WWS, depending on when you start with the curriculum. That article might be helpful for you.

Yes, it is possible to teach SOTW from Outschool. The students need to have copies of the student materials, whether they acquire them themselves or the teacher purchases a license to distribute the student materials to the students digitally. The copyright, purchase, and licensing description is in this FAQ from the WTM Press Help Center.

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WTM Press doesn't have a placement test for FLL, but this article from our FAQs might be of interest. And I agree that Level 3 is probably a good place to start. Remember that the point is mastery, not completion-of-book, so take the time that your student needs to master the material.

This FAQ from the Well-Trained Mind website's help center has some info about the encyclopedias. If you look further in this FAQ section, you will see other articles that might give you a power-assist in finding additional resources or using the curriculum in multiple ways.

One way to shorten the lessons in GftWTM is to do only a portion of the exercises. If the student understands what is being taught, there's no need to hammer him/her with multiple sample exercises. Likewise, when the student hits a bump in the road, if you have used only a few portion of the sample sentences, that leaves you a space to re-teach the concept and use the remaining (or some portion of the remaining) exercises to perfect their work. That's what I would do.

Check out this old thread: I found the Corbett book helpful in many ways...but the D'Angelo book was more accessible to my brain at the time I was learning all of this.

Well-Trained Mind Press has this article on its website to explain *why* we don't offer an all-in-one LA curriculum. (We did try, years ago, and it turned into people wanting a substitute for THIS level of THAT topic ... which reflects the reality that the different areas of LA are separate subjects, and children progress through them at different speeds. My personal child read at the 5th grade level within 6 months of learning to read, but writing? Not so much... (I use that as an illustration of the "separate subjects" issue). Maybe this article can help in thinking through what to do. If you are interested in seeing what WTM Press curriculum offers and the "where to start" article, check out this FAQ.

It doesn't really go to the OP's question--it's not research--but this article by Susan Wise Bauer might be helpful in understanding conceptual vs procedurals. It's part of what Well-Trained Mind is addressing in the Math With Confidence series by Kate Snow. FAQ here.

Here is a link to the FAQs that relate to this question: https://support.welltrainedmind.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039009214-Tell-me-about-the-relationship-between-The-Story-of-the-World-and-The-History-of-the-World Another link for those working with Intermediate Students: https://support.welltrainedmind.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060607054-Tell-me-how-to-use-The-Story-of-the-World-with-my-intermediate-student- I hope these links are helpful. There are more links re: progression and recommended books in the FAQs. I'll see if I can add the info about the synchonization chart to the FAQs...copyright check and all that.