lovinmomma Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 What age/grade is level 1 of First Language Lessons intended for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenL Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 First grade according to the author, Jessie Wise. We're using it now for 1st, and ds is really enjoying it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ele325 Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 We started in orally in kindy. It worked well for us. Eleanor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahamamama Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 We started in orally in kindy. It worked well for us. Eleanor Same here. We'll be done with the 1st grade level and about 20 lessons into 2nd grade at the end of K. We are doing most of it orally, with good retention, IMO. I do tweak it a bit. I don't use the pictures for picture narration (use my own). I don't exactly follow the sequence, but I do follow the "method," if that makes sense. HTH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 I think it generally works for ages 5 - 7 or so. My 5yo is doing FLL 1 (slowly) and my 7yo is doing FLL 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Anna Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 I've got a dd who is very strong in language arts. FLL is supposed to cover 1st and 2nd grade, but she's 6 and is easily moving through the second half. It's very gentle, yet has the student memorize lists of verbs and prepositions as well as the definitions. There are enrichment exercises with almost every lesson that allow a gifted student to work harder and it's very possible to skip various lessons that are review if your student has stuff down already. But I love the gentleness of the program because I've hardly had a lesson that goes beyond dd's attention span, despite her age. And she's really getting it! Now, if there were only a comparable program for math . . . Mama Anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovinmomma Posted February 24, 2010 Author Share Posted February 24, 2010 Thank you!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 First grade. My dd who is a bit precocious could have started it sometime in K. What she said. I've had two start it in first grade, one precocious one start it in the second part of her preschool year, and one who didn't begin it until third. The latter was a slower reader and she just couldn't wrap her brain around grammar until then. (She did the entire 1/2 book in 3rd grade, and moved into FLL 3 by the spring of that school year.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 I plan to start it with my kids whenever they are reading fluently. My oldest did the entire book in her K5 year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrapbookbuzz Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 My ds is 5.5 and picks it up pretty easily. We're doing the 1st part of FLL I with him. I don't do ALL the repetition because we both find it redundant. And *gasp!* I don't always make him answer me in a complete sentence. He knows HOW to do that but I don't think it's ALWAYS necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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