I have not tried workboxes because I know I could never keep up with them. I don't expect much of her independently. She is perfectly capable of completing Explode the Code pages on her own, but I'll check back after 5, 10, 30, however many minutes and she will have done NOTHING- instead creating a game with her pencil, or talking to an invisible friend, or playing house with her fingers- anything but the work she was given. :/ Besides, I have a hard time keeping her on task when I'm sitting right in front of, or beside, or on top of her teaching. When she reads her Hooked on Phonics words, she has to define every. single. one. as she reads it. When we would work with the Right Start tiles, she would end up sorting by color, building towers, making patterns instead of just counting out 2 or whatever. It's maddening! I swear I'm gonna tattoo "FOCUS" on her/my forehead! It's like our mantra, "Focus, focus, focus..."