TraceyF Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 ​ My dd7 will complete A Beka Language Arts 2 this year. I think I would like to change to Rod and Staff English 3 and Spelling with Sound and Structure 3 for next year. She will be 8 in June 2016. For those of you familiar with A Beka and R & S, do you think R & S 3 would be appropriate or does she need to do R & S 2? Based on comparing the scope and sequence, R & S 3 seems to be a reasonable choice. Also, would anyone recommend that I just continue with A Beka for another year? I like it but I have always thought I would change after the younger grades. Third grade seems to be a good year for that. She has completed phonics instruction but A Beka 2 does not cover nouns, verbs, etc. She is a generally a good student and seems to learn easily with A Beka LA which we have used since kindergarten. Thanks in advance for any advice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Twain Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 R&S English 3 should work fine. Some people routinely skip the grade 2 book because it is so simple and basic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Book 3 should be totally fine. A 3rd grader with no previous grammar could start there easily enough. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 ​ My dd7 will complete A Beka Language Arts 2 this year. I think I would like to change to Rod and Staff English 3 and Spelling with Sound and Structure 3 for next year. She will be 8 in June 2016. For those of you familiar with A Beka and R & S, do you think R & S 3 would be appropriate or does she need to do R & S 2? Based on comparing the scope and sequence, R & S 3 seems to be a reasonable choice. Also, would anyone recommend that I just continue with A Beka for another year? I like it but I have always thought I would change after the younger grades. Third grade seems to be a good year for that. She has completed phonics instruction but A Beka 2 does not cover nouns, verbs, etc. She is a generally a good student and seems to learn easily with A Beka LA which we have used since kindergarten. Thanks in advance for any advice! Just because of her age, I would recommend Preparing to Build (2nd), just because of its age appropriateness. If, however, you think she could handle the amount of writing in Beginning Wisely, you could have her do that. I prefer R&S over ABeka for English (and spelling, bot not phonics; ABeka phonics is excellent, R&S is sight-reading driven). There is more writing in R&S (and it includes poetry, which ABeka lumps with spelling, which is so weird to me), and I believe it covers topics that ABeka does not, such as oral communication and use of reference materials. Also, R&S's teacher manuals totally rock. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 I would agree with Ellie. English 2 can be done all orally. 3 expects a ton of writing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraceyF Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 Thanks so much for your replies! How can I tell how much writing is in R & S 3? I have looked at the online samples but that is all I have seen. If there is a lot I do think that might be hard for her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 (edited) O_o I have a 7yo currently using R&S English 3. She'll turn 8 next month. Today she wrote about a dozen words and diagrammed five sentence skeletons. Yesterday she wrote nine simple sentences and underlined their subjects and verbs. I didn't trim the lessons at all; that's every exercise. DD doesn't struggle with this workload in the slightest. Personally we found R&S to have less pencil to paper writing than Abeka. Edited January 6, 2016 by SilverMoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Twain Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 I don't think R&S 3 is too hard for a second grader. However, R&S 7 is a bear for my 7th grader. You may want to keep it at grade level now so that you don't over burden your children when they are older. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jens2sons Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 I would start with English 2. You can look at samples on milestone books.com to see. Also, if you purchase R&S English 2 and end up needing English 3 they are not expensive at all. Milestone even has a buy-back program. I am currently using English 2 and I am amazed at how it explains things. Sooo easy to use but it does have a good amount of writing. However, it is not too much if you just pick and choose what you want your child to do. It is not necessary to do every exercise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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