Now that Writing with Skill is completed, will Writing with Style be SWB's next project? Any estimates on when it will be available?

Yes. i am using it for my dyslexic son and he is doing very well with it.

Thank you for your replies! He does have speech issues and has been in the school's speech therapy program for 2 years.

I don't know where to post so I am putting this on both boards. I have a friend whose 8 year old son is in public school. He can't read at all. She wants to homeschool him. I am trying to help her get started, but don't know exactly how. I gave him the Barton screening. He passed section A, but failed B and C. He could clap 2 syllable words, but not 3 or 4 syllables. He would either not hear all of the syllables (he said video had 1 syllable) or he would forget the number. He clapped alligator correctly, but then said it had 3 syllables. When we put out a tile for each syllable, then he could count them and get the correct number. In part C he had trouble distinguishing sounds (said m and n were the same, and could not distinguish i and e). He would also get the order wrong or make up a sound that I didn't say. Please help me to know how to advise this family. Quote MultiQuote Edit

I have a friend whose 8 year old son is in public school. He can't read at all. She wants to homeschool him. I am trying to help her get started, but don't know exactly how. I gave him the Barton screening. He passed section A, but failed B and C. He could clap 2 syllable words, but not 3 or 4 syllables. He would either not hear all of the syllables (he said video had 1 syllable) or he would forget the number. He clapped alligator correctly, but then said it had 3 syllables. When we put out a tile for each syllable, then he could count them and get the correct number. In part C he had trouble distinguishing sounds (said m and n were the same, and could not distinguish i and e). He would also get the order wrong or make up a sound that I didn't say. Please help me to know how to advise this family.

No advice, but I would like some answers. I am in this situation myself. I need a break, but my children are behind and really need to go all summer. With 6 children (one of them 2 years old) I can't seem to get everything done in 9-10 months.

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I think WWS is fine for 10th grade. I used it this year with my 10th grade and 9th grade sons. I combined it will Essentials in Writing which taught various types of essays and the research paper. We didn't get to all of it this year as they had an outsourced speech class that required a lot of time, but I plan to have them complete it this summer. Next year (11th and 10th grades) we will do WWS 2. I will also have them do Lit analysis SWB style with the literature they will be reading, I hope to squeeze in WWS 3 if it is ready in time. Or I might do Advanced Communication Series from Excellence in Writing. I am going to do a better job teaching writing with my younger children. I love SWB's writing materials. She just didn't quite have them written in time for my oldest ds.

Yes, MFW high school is different in that the difficulty level increases with each grade and depends upon you learning the writing lessons from the previous year. I would not do US History in 9th either.

If he has mastered Algebra 1, I don't see why not.http://www.virtualhomeschoolgroup.com has a live online class and well as an at your own pace class. My ds will be doing their online class this fall. He did VHG for Biology and enjoyed the lectures and interaction with the teacher and other students.

Don't have much advice. but just wanted to say that I identify with you about having to spend so much time with the younger ones. My high schoolers are on their own for a lot of their subjects. Public schools are not good here so that is not an option. I am very committed to homeschooling too, but this year has been incredibly difficult.

I am using this with my middle schoolers and high schoolers. Don't worry about them being behind. If they don't know it, they need to learn it. SWB said if WWS 1-3 is completed, the student will be prepared for 90% of college level writing.

I am using this with my middle schoolers and high schoolers. Don't worry about them being behind. If they don't know it, they need to learn it. SWB said if WWS 1-3 is completed, the student will be prepared for 90% of college level writing.

We have loved http://www.virtualhomeschoolgroup.com for science. They have live online classes and at your own pace classes, where you watch videotaped lectures. It goes along with the Apologia textbooks, and is free. The tests are done online and the grading is done for you. This has made science totally independent for my ds.

I used this with 7th grader, 5th grader, and dyslexic 4th grader. It was a great year, probably my favorite of MFW. It's been a few years since we did it, so I will try to remember. It seems like it took a while to read all the books aloud, but I still did it because I had 3 doing it, the dyslexic ds needed it, and we enjoyed doing it all together. The discussions were great. We had Netflix so we watched a lot of movies that went along with what we were studying. The only teacher intensive part is all of the reading. I would do that in the morning, then they would all do their individual subjects. THe 8th grader would do his own 8th grade science, but the 5th grader would do MFW science that is included.

ILL is Intermediate Language Lessons by Emma Serl. I recommend Hake Grammar 6 for sixth grade, it has a writing portion too if you want to try that. I don't use the writing portion but use Writing with Skill instead. Both of these programs are student directed and fairly independent.

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You could still do MFW high school 10-12 grade programs and choose something else for 9th.

For the first 20 weeks or so, I had them do the outline and Analyzing the Topos in one day. We also did it 5 days per week. Some of the writing assignments took them longer than 1 day to complete.

My dc had no trouble hearing or understanding him. I don't have any other grades to compare to. I did notice that the intro music is a lot louder than the lectures.

We just received the 9th grade Essentials in Writing Course. I previewed it briefly and it looks good. I plan to start this week. Anyone used it yet? It's brand new. What do you think?

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Those are good choices. The repetition and incremental nature of those programs are beneficial for my dyslexic son. Here is my writing progression for him: WWE 3, WWE 4, Paragraph Writing Made Easy, Writing With Skill 1-3 and for grammar he is doing FLL 4, Hake 5-8 I don't know how many years this will take but that is my plan.

I really like Analytical Grammar for 6-8 grade. It is very thorough and the the second season has complex sentences for diagramming. The 3rd season is very thorough coverage of punctuation, capitalization, comma rules, etc and usage. I also like their High School reinforcement books. Hake Grammar is another thorough choice. The sentences for diagramming are not as complex as AG. You could do Hake Grammar 5 and then go to AG. Both of them are mostly independent. With Hake, they read the lessons on their own and do it. With AG, I spent 5-10 minutes going over the new concept with them and then they worked independently the rest of the week.