ele325 Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Favorites? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TarynB Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 I use and highly recommend Hake Grammar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom-ninja. Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 We use Growing with Grammar. Gets the job done. It's not FLL....sigh. I'm thinking of trying Hake but ds is doing fine with GWG so I hate to switch when it's working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 I went with R&S, which is SO NOT secular. I think if I had to do it again I would go with Hake. I tried doing GWG after FLL4 and it was a bomb. R&S has been a great fit and we have been able to work around the religious aspect. But, again, I sort of think I should have gone with Hake. I am not switching only because I don't like to jump my kids around if something is working. I only use the grammar aspect of R&S, not the writing. I use WWS for writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serendipitous journey Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Do any of y'all with older kids like KISS and/or MCT? but that may not be the best grammar for the older ones ... to the OP, although mine are younger, I have seen Hake rec'd frequently and also the Kilgallon books, though Kilgallon is more writing than grammar per se ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnyDays Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Well, I currently have a 4th grader.... he's doing 4th/5th grade work. We are using Hake 5, and it is thorough. We are adding back in some MCT components though... I don't think we'd go all MCT at this point, but I want to include pieces. I would also like to incorporate Kilgallon at some point as well. But I do think Hake has been a good choice as a primary curriculum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 We went with Hake. Of course we like Saxon Math so Hake fit nicely. Short lessons allow ds to drive this one mostly on his own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ele325 Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 Okay, so after looking at all of the above, I think I like Hake the best. I really like the content of R&S, but it seems from the samples available, that there is a lot of religion in the text. Is that correct? If we were to go ahead with Hake, with an advanced 10yo who has done all 4 levels of FLL which level would you start with? It seems like there is a lot of repitition between the levels. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Okay, so after looking at all of the above, I think I like Hake the best. I really like the content of R&S, but it seems from the samples available, that there is a lot of religion in the text. Is that correct? If we were to go ahead with Hake, with an advanced 10yo who has done all 4 levels of FLL which level would you start with? It seems like there is a lot of repitition between the levels. Thanks! Yes, there is a whole lot of religion in R&S. But, there is also just a whole lot of grammar in R&S. I cannot imagine anyone actually doing an entire lesson. I find it very easy to just skip the overtly religious questions. Sometimes an entire exercise is overtly religious, but there is almost always a second (or even a third) exercise in the same lesson that will have the same goals with less religion. We do R&S orally, exception for diagramming, and I pick and choose from the different exercises what is best for us. But, as non-christians using R&S it can seem a little overwhelming. I sometimes worry that my kid is getting a rather skewed vision of how people incorporate christianity in their lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland Mist Academy Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Do any of y'all with older kids like KISS and/or MCT? but that may not be the best grammar for the older ones ... to the OP, although mine are younger, I have seen Hake rec'd frequently and also the Kilgallon books, though Kilgallon is more writing than grammar per se ... We tried KISS a few times, but there was too much we didn't like about it. For grammar we use a combo of MCT, Hake, Killgallon, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Warriner's is another option. I think the introductory course (designed for grade 6) would be totally do-able after FLL4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Occasionally Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Warriner's is another option. I think the introductory course (designed for grade 6) would be totally do-able after FLL4. I've been watching this thread for my DD8 who's in love with language. I hadn't heard of this one before. Off to research--thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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