chelsmm Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 2015-2016 will be our third year of home schooling. So far we have done very little writing. DD is going to be 10 and DS will be 8 for this school year. She is a strong reader and enjoys writing short stories on her own. DS is probably a little above grade level for reading, but he's not confident yet and won't try chapter books on his own yet. He has a very hard time with penmenship. He goes to OT for that and for impulse control and some other stuff. He was diagnosed with ADHD and NLD. We have not done any writing with him. He loves audiobooks. His vocabulary is fantastic. His comprehension is great. And he expresses himself verbally very well. We are working on some typing for both kids, but for him, it's likely that he'll need to dictate any writing for next year. We have done grammar using The Sentence Family, so they have a decent grasp on basic grammar. What should I do for writing? Any ideas? Thanks, Chelsea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdventuresinHomeschooling Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 We love the CAP Writing and Rhetoric program. We just finished with Fable. It sounds like a great fit for your oldest as it really explores elements of story in the first book while teaching summary and amplification, but you may need to evaluate more carefully for your son. He may not be ready yet. Writing with Ease will be a good fit until then as it trains him to write in narration and dictation, but the compositions are fairly short. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsmm Posted June 27, 2015 Author Share Posted June 27, 2015 We tried WWE, and both kids hated it. I actually just got rid of books one and two! I'll take a look at CAP. DS just can't physically write. He's great with words and storytelling. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsmm Posted June 27, 2015 Author Share Posted June 27, 2015 Oh, I like the look of CAP fables. I was just looking through the sample lessons. One question- is everything included? There was one part in lesson one where it says "the teacher will read to you about lions". Then the child is to write down the sentence that was dictated. But there wasn't anything about lions...so I'm a little confused. Am I suppose to find or make up a sentence or two about lions? Otherwise I think this might work. I think we could make it fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica_in_Switzerland Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 I've completely fallen in love with The Most Wonderful Writing Lessons Ever. It's a very cheap book you can get from Amazon and it's amazing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Oh, I like the look of CAP fables. I was just looking through the sample lessons. One question- is everything included? There was one part in lesson one where it says "the teacher will read to you about lions". Then the child is to write down the sentence that was dictated. But there wasn't anything about lions...so I'm a little confused. Am I suppose to find or make up a sentence or two about lions? Otherwise I think this might work. I think we could make it fun. The teacher's guide has the sentences to read. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Writing Strands. :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hkpiano Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 What about Brave Writer? Your son would be in the Jot It Down stage (where he dictates to you) and she has lots of great ideas for writing projects at that stage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Brave Writer, definitely. It's just right for kids who want to narrate and nothing else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAtoVA Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Great book for teaching writing to my "reluctant" writer DS when he was 7-8 yo: Marvelous Mini-lessons for Teaching Beginning Writing K-3 http://www.amazon.com/Marvelous-Minilessons-Teaching-Beginning-Writing/dp/0872075915/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435968466&sr=8-1&keywords=mini+lessons+for+teaching+beginning+writing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classical Katharine Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Have you looked at Writing Tales? It has children re-write classic fables. It might be too easy for your daughter, but helpful for your son. Here it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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