writing program w/R&S?

[jens2sons]

Since Rod & Staff English is primarily a grammar book with a little writing, what writing program (if any) goes well with it?  

[SilverMoon]

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Edited May 16 by SilverMoon

[PeachyDoodle]

I agree that R&S has plenty of writing on its own. But I found much of it is pretty dry, so we dropped the composition exercises from R&S and used WWE/WWS for explicit writing instruction.

 

Looking back, I think we probably could have just used R&S exclusively through 4th or 5th grade, then moved into WWS. I didn't love the whole narration/dictation thing for writing in elementary, but the explicit instruction in WWS has been FANTASTIC for dd.

 

If you wanted to add something to complement R&S, you could look at Kilgallon. The focus there is more on style than structure.

[Ellie]

R&S a complete grammar *and* composition. And yes, it's dry. :-) But the writing instruction is no more dry than the grammar, so there you go. :-)

 

Have you seen R&S's scope and sequence? And sample curriculum? Because then you'd see that there's a boatload of writing. :001_smile:

[quietchapel]

R&S is so great. I've wanted something less religious, but there it is so good I am just sticking with R&S. I am adding a creative prompt weekly or bi-weekly, whatever works best. Hopefully that will combat the dryness!