LA Writing Grammar Ideas Sought

[1shortmomto4]

My ds, entering 5th, is behind in his writing skills because we focused more on learning to read and I figured the rest will catch up. I'm trying to plan my school year and really having a difficult time trying to figure out what would work:

 

On a side note, we used WWE 1 last year (haven't finished just yet) and his handwriting improved greatly (he has signs of undiagnosed dysgraphia). Not sure whether to finish up WWE 1 and move on to 2 - is that enough writing? Should he be writing sentences? paragraphs?

 

Trying to figure out what grammar would be a good fit. We tried BJU English (skipped the writing) and while it was fine, the retention was not as much as I hoped when it came to test time. I've thought about FLL 3 but not sure that the memorizing part is a good fit for him.

 

I really like the looks of the grammar books written by WP that seems to gradually build but won't buy them because 1, the readers that go with the program needed are waaay to hard for him (their expectations that a 4th grader can read at the same level as a 6th grader doesn't work for me) and I don't like the whole resale policy so not going there again.

 

Would ILL work or too much copywork? especially if I keep using WWE. R&S 3?

 

I love the the layout of Writing Tales - would this work if I were his scribe?

 

I'm planning on using the SL 2 Advanced readers (he read through all the intermediates last year) but since we're not SL users, don't really want to go with the LA - although I like that style of LA).

 

I keep reading all the posts on MCT but he is not an advanced student and I truly think we need yet another year to cement the awesome progress and keep on trucking.

 

Suggestions.....

 

If it helps, we are going to use SOTW 2 but that doesn't require any writing (although perhaps as the year goes on I can have him write some narrations). We'll return to HOD next year (I miss my HOD, sniff, sniff) but we've covered all the topics in Bigger and that is where he'd place, LA wise).

 

Suggestions... as I keep rambling on and on and on

[homemama]

:lurk5:

I don't have any suggestions, but I wanted to bump this for you. My son sounds a lot like yours and I'm interested in the responses.

Hope you have a great year, no matter what you choose!;)

 

homemama