shukriyya Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 What do you think about doing this? There is a tremendous amount of repetition in GWG which is the whole point in the elementary and upper elementary levels but looking at the next level we'd be using I'm tempted to skip ahead a year. All the same material will be covered with some new things added. Does anyone do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 What do you think about doing this? There is a tremendous amount of repetition in GWG which is the whole point in the elementary and upper elementary levels but looking at the next level we'd be using I'm tempted to skip ahead a year. All the same material will be covered with some new things added. Does anyone do this? I am skipping parts of 5. The jump from 3 to 5 would be too much, IMO, but 4 to 6 isn't bad. I may jettison the rest of 5, or just do "new" stuff. We are about 1/3 of the way through. However, it is our most "independent" book, and I'd hate to pull that from kiddo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 What I did was have my kids do double lessons to speed it up. I would not skip levels, though. All that repetition is important for retention. We have topics that kiddo understands very well, e.g. run on sentences, or putting sentences in order. He and I can only stand so much. However, we could use all the help we can get on subject vs. object pronouns. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shukriyya Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 Well, the consensus seems to be don't skip levels. I didn't mention that dc also takes an outside grammar class and is retaining info from that as well. Hmm, any more advice or btdt folks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarahkay Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Yep, I'm skipping. DS10 is wrapping GWG4. We'll flip through some of 5 as needed. Business letters? Skip. Anto/Syno/Homo? Skip. What we'll work on is same old grammar applied to more complex sentence structure (find those prep phrases, now delete them, do you have s/v agreement?) My son gets grammar. Just needs to practice with lessons that have more varied sentence structure. Then, also apply that to his writing. We proofread and edit nearly everything in every subject -- even rinky-dinky little narrations. So we get a grammar lesson in that way, too. He's taking is grammar textbook/worksheet knowledge and applying to his writing. And isn't that the goal? Even with the repetition, I love GWG. Good ol' grammar the way I learned it. Short, independent lessons. You're in; you're out. Boom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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