I really love to hear how this is working for others. I don't want to hijack this post but I have a question regards how we are using IEW - If I don't get any responses I will just post this as a separate post.
This is our first year with IEW and I have had mixed feelings about it. It has definitely helped my ds9 with his writing which was abysmal at best before, however, he has a really hard time picking out words for the outline and then when he writes his paragraph, many times the sentences are stand alones and don't flow together. He seems to to better on stories where there is a more obvious sequence to the the sentences but even then the sentences don't always flow. The surprising thing to me is that this child reads at a high school level and reads every day of his own accord so I don't know why some of that wouldn't translate to his writing. I ask him does this sound like something you would read in one of your books and his answer is "no."
Any thoughts, recommendations, etc would be greatly appreciated. :confused: