Gentle 5th grade LA program?

[jeninok]

My son will technically be in 5th grade next year, he has an amazing grasp of verbal language and is pretty good at grammar thanks to shurley English at his ps. We have been doing wordsmiths creative writing lessons and he has enjoyed them a lot , they have really helped get him thinking about using the written word expressive without making him actually write too much. This kid really speaks like an adult and has a repetroir of dead on accents, but getting him to write more than 2 sentences like"it fell down " is a major struggle. I have been looking at Queen's first language lessons but Im not sure if it is complete enough

[Down_the_Rabbit_Hole]

Wordsmith Apprentice. http://www.commonsensepress.com/wordsmith/wsapp.htm

[Momling]

You might want to look into Killgallon's sentence composing books. The focus of the book is to encourage good sentence construction by imitating interesting well-written sentences from children's literature.

 

Your son may see it as a fun puzzle rather than as a burdensome writing exercise.