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  1. English- Shurley or Easy Grammar?

    Spelling- Apples and Pears or All About Spelling ?

    Reading- Wilson, Barton, Abecedarian, Rewards,or Reading Reflex?

     

     

    Shurley has a lot of jingles that are great for auditory learners while Easy Grammar lessons are short and to the point. Either would make a good choice.

     

    Sequntial Spelling isn't on your list for spelling. It was designed to use with dyslexic students. You might look into it.

     

    I have used Reading Reflex with dyslexic students I was tutoring. It worked quite well with them, but they were not even reading on a first grade level when we started. Rewards worked well with older students (jr high and high school) students I tutored. Rewards requires a lot of teacher participation to work correctly but is an awesome program. I haven't heard about the other reading programs you mentioned.

     

    Hope this helped.

  2. I was quite pleased using Saxon all the way through high school. The kids enjoyed math all the way through as much as you can enjoy math and be a teenager. My son refused to change programs when he reached the higher levels of math. My daughter tried a couple others only to come back. She liked the consistent spiral review.

  3. My son just finished the book. But I had him watch a version of the movie two months ago knowing the book was coming. Since he remembered the movie ever so slightly, it made it easier to read the book quickly. Upon finishing, he wanted to watch the movie again. This made it easy for me to assign a paper comparing the two.

  4. Just keep plugging at it. It sounds like you have a good plan. Sometimes it takes kids a while for it to click. I can not tell you how many times I changed programs until I found something that worked for me and my kids.

  5. My daughter also just stands in the shower with out washing anything. When I asked her, she told me it was because it was the only quiet place to think in a house full of people.

     

    The forgetting what you ask, I get that with both of my teens and with the youth group at church. They are usually thinking about things and are not listening carefully.

     

    That is what I have seen in teens around me. Hope this helps.

  6. I look at the books and decide how long I want to spend on each topic based on the interests of my kids. Then I decide what we will do each month, then week, and finally each day. In the end I have a colmpleted lesson plan for the whole year. Yet, I only schedule for 150 days. This allows me to plan 30 or so days. This allows ample time for sick days and field trips to WalMart to practice our consumer math. :D

     

    It usually takes me about a month to figure our plans for the year, but it makes the year a lot less stressful to me. I just have to look a week ahead of time to see the topic and a list of items needed to complete the lessons.

  7. Before your student starts Spelling Power, they take a couple spelling tests. This allows you to place them in the correct list. The lists consist of one sound. The first week the lists are usually really easy for the student but as you progress the words become more difficult. The key to learning the words is daily test followed by kinestheitc activities to practice missed spelling words.

     

    If this doesn't seem to be your cup of tea, you might try sequential spelling. I liked that this program had long lists for different chunks found in words. (in, fin, begin, beginning) This allowed me to use the same chunk with both students but to give my natural speller harder words.

     

    Hope this helped.

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