Michael Clay Thompson

[ariana01]

Hi, I have an upcoming sixth grader and was wondering which level would be good for an average sixth grader? Thanks

[fluffybunny]

I would start with Island level, then move to Town level within the year. Island level is NOT simplistic, and quite challenging. In fact even *I* learnt a great deal from the story book Sentence Island .... and I'm still recovering from it! My son loved SI and Paragraph Town so much; he is still talking about them a year later.

[Targhee]

I haven't started yet, but according to his own recommendations an average 6th grader would strt at Voyage. http://www.rfwp.com/pages/michael-clay-thompson/levels-packages/

I am going to try and have my 5th grader start Town in a week and do both it and Voyage by the end of 6th.

[Chrysalis Academy]

I agree that Sentence island is wonderful, and not to be missed, but I would not start at that level for a 6th grader. I am a huge fan of MCT's stuff, but there is a lot of repetition in the grammar materials.

 

I would start with Town, I think, because then you will get both years of Caesar's English for Vocab, and Paragraph Town is extremely useful for really focusing on how to organize paragraphs. It's hard to make suggestions not knowing what your dc has done before, or what else you might be doing for writing, but I think I would start with Town. It doesn't take a full year to go through a level with older kids, I have found, so you have time for other things, or you can compress and go through both programs in a year and a half. Whatever works for you.

[cschnee]

I agree with Rose above. It would be good to be able to do both CE programs.