momtobpkid Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 We attempted to do Write Shop, and he is not ready. He has been doing a ton of healing, as he was so ill for 10 years, and missed so much learning. I thought he was ready for WS, and no, he is not. It was a major battle to get done what we got done from lesson 1. He has a hard time writing sentences that are complete, punctuated correctly, and are interesting. WS focuses more on expanding current writing skills that my son does not have. Like describe an object without "it feels" "it looks". I am hoping that he will be ready for it someday soon so I do not waste that money. We did Easy Grammar Plus for grammar without anything sticking. We also do not have a ton of money to spend. Any ideas of something engaging, that will make this information stick? Something not geared towards lower elementary? Something that does not require a ton out of me, since he HATES me having to teach him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomatHWTK Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Try this: http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/catalog/editions/242 And perhaps the worksheets from here: http://macmillanmh.com/languagearts/2001/teacher/teachres/pdf/Reteach6.pdf Don't forget to check Khan Academy and YouTube as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mktkcb Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 I would look at Don Kilgallon's books that work on sentence composing to help with the interesting part. They have 3 different levels, so you could choose where to put him. They are excellent. http://userpages.umbc.edu/~killgall/ http://www.amazon.com/Sentence-Composing-Middle-School-Worktext/dp/0867094192 To work on straight editing, you might get an appropriate level of Editor in Chief computer version. Again, you could choose the level that is best, and doing it on the computer might be fun. I think the books are about $15, the computer cds are $26. The Kilgallon is about $20 a workbook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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