I've been lurking here for a while gathering a lot of great info on Homeschooling/education. Since English is my 2nd language.(korean is 1st lang.) I always feel inadequate to teach english(esp. grammar/writing for my 6th ds.) This is my 1st year HS. My youngest dd K is still in PS. I plan to bring her home when I feel somewhat confident about HSing my 2 older kids. I mostly need advice for 6th grade son. He can write pages (3-5) when writing a story. But he doesn't know how to write a 5 par. essays or other type of expository papers. We need a curriculum to teach him to write an essay paper, research paper,etc. Since I don't feel quite qualified to teach writing, independent type workbook would be great. I do have WWE 1~4 and story starters. He likes story starters but, he needs the instruction on structure, mechanics and not creativity. Should I place him somewhere in WWE 3? He hasn't had any narrration exercise at all. My 3rd grade son will be doing WWE 2,GWG 3, & SOTW+AG+other books, MPH science or Elementary Science(haven't decided yet)+books. 6th grader grammar& writing(hasn't decided yet),K12 Human Odyssey+what in the world,sotw audio, Apologia General science. Both of them will do Robinson curriculum book list+ sonlight,ambleside book list and Saxon math in their level. I happened to notice a lot of you recommend CLE for LA should I try that for my kids? Does that have "writing essay" curr. built in? I would love to hear any advice. Thank you so much! Alexia

My son also like the Redwall series. He loved the Puffin Classics 16 Book Set bought from amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Puffin-Classics-16-Book-Set/dp/0142413356/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1291242066&sr=8-13

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My 6th grade son likes the audio/cd version of the General Science book. I am thinking about getting the book and actually doing it.