Language Arts- Need Lit-based!

[Ruthie in MS]

Looking for a language arts program for my language arts hating dd. She enjoyed LLATL but it's too light. Probably why she likes it :glare: . I don't mind supplementing but I would rather work with something that's a little bit stronger. She is going into "7th grade" but I would put her language arts skill more like 5th grade writing and grammar and 6th grade reading, comprehension, spelling, etc. I would love something like Lightening Literature but 7th grade looks way too advanced for her. I wish they had lower levels. :crying:  We don't have a lot of practice with dictation so I'd like to avoid something that is dictation heavy. I'd love it to be an all-in-one program but like I said, I'm not afraid to supplement. Does this program exist or am I chasing after an elusive unicorn?

[Ellie]

What about Total Language Plus?

[FawnsFunnyFarm]

Moving Beyond the Page, we are really enjoying it, working lower in level than my kids are. My 4th and 5th graders are doing the 7-9 level. We add in spelling be cause I don't care for theirs.

[HomeAgain]

Moving Beyond The Page.  I'd grab a copy of Deconstructing Penguins to help, but pick book packets I think she'd enjoy, and work through about 4 of them over the year.

[Ruthie in MS]

What about Total Language Plus?

I saw this mentioned on another thread and checked it out. It looks wonderful but I don't 100% understand how it works. I've tried to read about it and research it but not many people use this program. It looks like the closest answer to my problem though.

 

Moving Beyond the Page, we are really enjoying it, working lower in level than my kids are. My 4th and 5th graders are doing the 7-9 level. We add in spelling be cause I don't care for theirs.

I've really considered this choice as well. I do have a question though. It has science and social studies units as well. I don't need those. Can I skip them and do only the language/english units? Will we miss something?

[HomeAgain]

We used only the language arts from MBTP and missed nothing obvious.  I actually didn't even use the same levels, I picked based on what I though my kid would like and ordered through RR.  The projects are either open ended enough or provide two different levels of work anyway, so it didn't hinder us a bit.

[FawnsFunnyFarm]

We only use the language arts as well. We have never felt we missed anything either. We are working through them in order.

 

I do pick and choose activities, we don't do them all. If we did, we would spend 10 hours a day on LA! Today for example, they would have written up a sheet that told about their favorite elements from stories, read a book and made a "map" of the elements, then written their own story and illustrated the cover of it. We talked about story elements and their favorite ones from books we read, then they wrote the story.

 

Its hard for me to not feel we need to do it all, its kind of like the SOTW AG, I really have to remind myself that it can't all be done and me stay sane.