Thank you for letting me know about these. I looked over the samples and it does look nice. Good to have options. Good to know. That makes a lot of sense. What I'm leaning towards at the moment is getting WWE 1 and starting that now, and then, if that's going well, eventually try adding FLL.

Thank you, they do look lovely. (I like anything that starts out with an Emily Dickinson poem!) There appears to be quite a bit more physical writing than in WWE level 1, though. Thanks for sharing this, it's helpful. He was barely reading at all when kindergarten ended; I don't think he even knew enough to guess. I got All About Reading and started working with him over the summer, and he's progressed so much. We have sometimes mixed and matched the word-flippers from AAR to make nonsense words and he enjoyed that, so I think he would enjoy these activities too. Thanks for this information!

Do you think it's best to start with level 1 for FLL? I know the website says to start there for a second grader. We have covered some of the content (eg. he's familiar with basic parts of speech), but maybe it would be best to start with level 1 and just move quickly through things he knows? Thank you! I have read WTM so I'm not totally unfamiliar with the approach but I do want some hand-holding for now. I like that it separates out the skills of narration and copywork in the beginning; I think that would work really well for my son.

I'm trying to figure out Language Arts for my son who is currently 6.5 and in first grade. I am planning for next year, but might add some things in before then. When I pulled him out of public school in the Fall, I decided to focus on phonics and handwriting because he needed so much help in those areas (he was recently diagnosed with specific learning disabilities in reading and in written expression). He has been progressing in reading and handwriting at a pretty good pace although I think public school would still consider him behind. He has an excellent vocabulary for his age, comprehends language well, and is quite bright, contrary to what public school had me thinking. We read books aloud, of course, and he tells me stories that I write down and attempts to handwrite letters and such, but I would like to try adding some more formal instruction in writing and grammar (and other components I may be missing?). I have The Writing Revolution and have been using some of its ideas for working on sentence structure (orally at this point), but I want something that requires less prep on my part, even if I have to modify it to suit our purposes. I've been considering trying WWE (level 1) and FLL (maybe level 2?) but I'm open to other suggestions. I don't know if these programs would be a good fit for us or not.