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  1. 7 hours ago, Servant4Christ said:

    Theological words as in how to pronounce them or defining the words? R&S makes a placement test you can order but not online.

    both. she has no religious background. some of today's words were fidelity, credence, penitence...

     

    7 hours ago, Servant4Christ said:

     

     

  2. I have a 14yo who has been living with us for 9 mos. She was pulled out of school in 1st grade and raised on video games and you tube videos. Her spelling and vocabulary is actually quite good given her background and she actually begs for spelling tests. She can read fine, but has no phonics background. I started her in R&S7 with my bio 14yo, but all the theological words are proving to be too difficult for her. I'm schooling 5 other kids so I need a mostly independent program to try with her. Any suggestions? Also, Is there a website where she can test and see what level she is on? I am really at a loss here as we have never used anything but R&S. Thank you.

  3. 12 hours ago, Garga said:

    And I almost forgot this one:

    https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-lessons

    This free website has lesson plans for history.  It’s geared for high school and maybe 8th grade.  Look carefully at everything and you should be able to find the teacher’s guidelines for each lessons and all the student pages. Everything you need should be there.  It takes historical documents about certain events, usually from opposing points of view, and has the student compare them and try to figure out what really happened, the way a historian would.  It would be a great companion course to do along with a Great Course.  

    The reason I suggest it is that there’s not a lot of reading.  Sure, you’re reading documents, but it’s not like slogging through a bunch of books.  You read a few excerpts from something and then use their worksheets to interact with the excerpts and think through whether the person writing it was biased or whatnot.  

     I did this for World History when my oldest was in 9th grade, and I don’t think it’s at a 5th and 6th grader level.  I, personally, wouldn’t be comfortable combining 5th and 6th with a high schooler.  So, I’d lump the 5th/6th grade together and have the 9th grader doing a different history program.  

    Or, if you did the above with the 5th and 6th grader, you’d help them along a lot more than you would the 9th grader. 

    ADDED THIS MORNING:  @angelmama1209  :  for the website above, they provide the entire historical document if you want to read it, but they also provide edited documents, insofar as they cut out some of the wordier bits.  On the website, you’ll see the long (and sometimes boring and difficult to read) original documents separately as their own dowload, but as part of the download of Lesson Plans, you’ll scroll down and see the shortened version of the same documents.  So, if you have a strong reader, they may read the entire original, but if you have a weaker reader (as I did), then the shortened one can be used.

     

    She was pulled from school in 1st grade and not taught at home. She is definitely more on their level if not even below. We’re still feeling things out and haven’t even attempted anything outside of the basics yet. 

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  4. I have an upcoming dyslexic, dysgraphia 6th grader and an upcoming 5th grader who work together. I also have an upcoming 9th grader with virtually no school history. I need American history that will work for them. My oldest is a reader and a history buff, so for her, I used the story of us as a spine and cobbled together lots of books and texts and other things to go along. None of that will work with this crew. I don’t mind reading, but can’t spend hours a day doing it. We tried story of the world a couple of years ago and while they listened ok, they didn’t get anything out of it and didn’t miss it when I dropped it. Does anyone have any ideas?

  5. I have an upcoming dyslexic, dysgraphia 6th grader and an upcoming 5th grader who work together. I also have an upcoming 9th grader with virtually no school history. I need American history that will work for them. My oldest is a reader and a history buff, so for her, I used the story of us as a spine and cobbled together lots of books and texts and other things to go along. None of that will work with this crew. I don’t mind reading, but can’t spend hours a day doing it. We tried story of the world a couple of years ago and while they listened ok, they didn’t get anything out of it and didn’t miss it when I dropped it. Does anyone have any ideas?

  6. I think of... school. at. home. I have a friend who calls herself a homeschooler, but actually does school at home. She wakes her kids early to get dressed, pack lunches (yep), and eat breakfast before reporting to the table in the school room at a specific time. The day's schedule is written on the chalkboard. They pray, sing a couple songs, and say the pledge before circle time. She uses strictly Abeka, whether it works for the child or not. She will not schedule playdates or any other "non educational" activity during "school hours". they eat their packed lunches at a scheduled time before returning to the school room. School begins and ends at specific times no matter what (8-3 I think). Not my style and affected our friendship and our kids' friendships because we were unable to see each other. We both had afternoon extracurricular activities and with her refusal to relax a day, we never saw each other and things have dissolved.

  7. following. I am in the same boat- trying to understand exactly what lit study is and how to go about it. My oldest will be in 8th next year and is a voracious reader. She currently reads 1 assigned book, 2-5 books for history, and numerous "fun" books every week. I looked at lightening lit 8th this morning and liked it. I'll have to look at 7th and see how it may be different. My friend suggested teaching the classics. She is using build your library.

  8. 1 hour ago, Baile said:

    After she sounds out each letter (f - r - o - g), can she put the sounds together to say "frog"? If she can, it sounds perfectly normal and like she's well on her way in reading!

    If not, I still wouldn't worry at her age, but would work on some blending activities - "After I say the sounds, you say them together!" Begin with compound words "cup - cake", then syllables "mo - ther", then individual sounds, working up from "a - t" to words with 5-6 sounds.

    Yes, she can. She is already reading, but stumbles through phonics. I just found it odd.

  9. 9 hours ago, Ellie said:

    Phonics Pathways is a good method. I'd continue that with her. I'm guessing she has a good visual memory and just recognizes words without actually knowing the phonics involved. At some point she'll run out of visual memory, and she'll need the phonics.

    thanks

  10. 10 hours ago, Tanaqui said:

    My guess is that when she's reading a book, she's either got that book memorized OR she has the word shaped memorized and a good understanding of context clues. So of course she rattles it off perfectly. Now she's learning how to sound things out. She's carefully shutting down her memorization of the word shapes in order to sound out properly. This is normal, and really, it's better. (Some kids in her situation are just resistant to learning phonics altogether because their method seems faster and better to them.)

    It's like this. When children first start using verbs, they often conjugate their irregular verbs perfectly. They say "I went" and "I ran" just like adults, because they've memorized. Then, when they're a little older, they learn the rule and they misapply it. They say "I goed" and "I runned". To adults this looks like a step back, but it's a step forward - maybe your child did this as well? Eventually they figure it out and start speaking the way everybody else does.

    Or, something you probably have not encountered with this child, sometimes you have a kid who can play piano very well by ear, but when they learn to sight-read music they make lots of errors, even in songs they can play perfectly already. Because they turned off the part of them that listens to music in order to focus on reading it! Eventually they become good enough at reading music that they can do both things at once.

    I can come up with more analogies if I try. The point is, this sounds like absolutely nothing to worry about. Just be happy she is cooperating with her phonics learning and making progress!

    that makes sense

  11. My 6yo reads with no previous instruction. She can read most of what I put in front of her (age appropriate of course), but she stumbles through phonics. I feel like it's important so she can decode harder words later on and to help with spelling, but she literally sounds out every single word in phonics, including cvc words. We are using phonics pathways. Is this normal? Or is there a better phonics curriculum we could use?

  12. I think he sounds like a delightful and very gifted little boy and it breaks my heart that he is not being accepted as he is. PLEASE don't let them stifle or scare the passion and spark out of him. He may be finally "conforming" at school, but that could have severely negative consequences to his self esteem (ie "if I stop being myself, they will like me or say i'm 'good'"). Watch closely for signs of depression. If he wants to learn more math, for heaven's sake, teach him more math. Let him explore, let him flourish, let him excel. And seriously, I don't know what your situation is that you can't homeschool, but I would look at things again and try to make it happen. He just does not fit the "school mold". {{{hugs mama}}}

  13. dredging this up from the past- do you think it's possible to do book 2 in, say, 15 months? My daughter has been lazing her way through book 1 for way too long and i'd like her finished before she "officially" starts high school. but I also want to be realistic and fair.

  14. the update to the forums has put a bunch of old threads in my feed. Resurrecting this from the grave.

    We were late to the writing game. It is something I am fair at, but not comfortable teaching. My 7th grader is working through iew level b. In reading through this massive thread, I am trying to determine where to go next. My thoughts are WWS and killgallon followed by lost tools of writing. Not really any idea on timeline, though. Is she too old for WWS? thoughts?

  15. SO just putting together all the replies...

    My 7th grader has just completed Art of Argument in coop and absolutely LOVED it.

    Next we would do Argument Builder in 8th (though NOT along with Lost Tools of Writing? I am considering that as a writing curric.)

    Then Discovery of Deduction in 9th

     

    Is that correct?

  16. We have only been able to school consistently 3ish days/week for the last several years. We do school year round, but are still chronically behind. This week our schedule will open to a potential of 5 days for the first time ever so really hoping to do some catching up.

    Bible- Kay Arthur's kid's series, whichever she chooses

    Math- CLE She is almost done with 6 right now and will continue on into 7 and then 8. We switched curriculum and were set back a grade. She is working hard to "catch up"

    Logic- she did art of argument in coop this year and LOVED it. Suggested Follow up? Fallacy detective? or is that a step back? Argument Builder

    Writing- IEW B. Will do B continuation when finished. Have decided to switch to WWS 1 and possible kilgallon.

    Spelling- Spelling Power

    Grammar- Fix It. Just finished Nose Tree and will start the next one next month. Hoping she will get through it over the summer.

    Lit- she will be doing a Shakespeare class in coop as well as reading assigned books.

    Latin- she is moseying through Lively Latin and learning and loving it.

    History- We are focusing on state history next year so will be doing mom made and field trips.

    Geography- same as above

    Science- We do God's Design... as a family. Will finish earth over the summer and start physical next year. She will also be doing state related science as well as general science in coop.

     

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