I'll chime in here...TOG, by design, has a faster pace in year two than any other year. Year one is fairly reasonable because they want you to pretty much read the whole Bible in the course of that year plan, ending at the fall of the Roman Empire. Year three covers the 1800s and year four covers the 1900s. That leaves a very large period of history for year two. The first two units of year two focus on European history while the second two units focus on early American history. The authors deliberately devoted an entire year for each of the last two centuries because they believe the events that occurred during those time periods have a direct effect on our world today, much more so than the time period covered in year two. So even though the pace is very fast in year two, it will slow down for years three and four since each only covers about 100 years of history.

Thanks for the quick replies but I must say that we are sad at hearing this news. This is the only grammar we have done and we love it.

Does anyone know if there will be a level 5 for First Language Lessons and, if so, will it be available in the fall? This may have been asked before but I can't seem to find anything about it. Thanks for any info you have.

It's interesting that you write about this (vision problems) because I just found out she has terrible vision! I am hoping that is a BIG piece but she still has some other behaviors that make me suspect there is more going on. This is going to be my first step, though. Thanks for the post!

I will try some of these suggestions and see how it goes. She is a very tactile learner and, since I "labeled" her as such, didn't consider that she is probably a visual learner too and that the weird text in 100 Easy Lessons could be distracting. Thanks again!

We haven't had DD6 tested yet but I suspect she has Aspergers or some other form of high-functioning autism. We have arranged to get her tested this spring. I have been struggling with teaching her to read and think that perhaps it is the program I am using (?), which is 100 EZ Lessons (my oldest dd flew through it and hasn't looked back since!) She seems to be a kinestetic learner but perhaps she is visual - I really don't know though. She gets very frustrated with the phonics instruction and has to repeat the sounding out of simple words, even when they are repeated in the same sentence. For longer or multi-syllable words, she usually forgets what she has sounded out at the beginning of the word by the time she gets to the end of the word! She knows her alphabet and pretty much knows the sounds that each letter makes but making it click with reading actual words isn't happening. Can someone suggest a program that has worked for them? Thanks so much!!