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]

R&S has plenty of writing. Technically, writing out the grammar exercises *is* part of the composition instruction, not just the lessons marked as composition lessons.

 

That said, if you're doing the exercises orally just about any writing program would go fine with it. You didn't specify grade level. I wouldn't add any writing to the 2 or 3 books regardless; I focus on copywork for those ages. For 4 on up we've used Writing and Rhetoric, Wordsmith Apprentice, Classical Writing, and such. Cover Story around 6-7. My rising 8th grader is going to use Lost Tools of Writing, but he isn't even in Rod and Staff English anymore.

[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!