SereneHome Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Would doing both for a 5th grader be an overkill? We are finishing up MCT Level 1 and it has been going well and I was going to continue with that. For some reason I thought IEW is for older kids and deals with entirely different aspects of LA. Today someone described to me a few things from IEW and now I am not sure what to think. Help!!! Please!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 If it ain't broke don't fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 I read and discuss the writing books (Sentence Island, Paragraph Town, etc), but I skip the writing activities and use a separate writing program. I've never used IEW, so I don't know if that would be overkill with MCT, but you could try. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SereneHome Posted September 8, 2018 Author Share Posted September 8, 2018 18 hours ago, Slache said: If it ain't broke don't fix it. See, I always planned to use IEW. I just thought that MCT and IEW don't really overlap..... Arghhhh, so many choices and decisions!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 23 minutes ago, SereneHome said: See, I always planned to use IEW. I just thought that MCT and IEW don't really overlap..... Arghhhh, so many choices and decisions!!! I always planned to use MCT and we're using IEW, so I'm not helpful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Targhee Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 I also use MCT writing books as general overviews of aspects of writing and use a different writing program (was W&R, currently LToW). I actually dropped vocabulary when my kids started Latin too. So we use MCT grammar, practice book, poetics, and the writing book as an overview. I imagine you could do something similar with IEW for writing (they also have other products but usually when people say IEW they mean their Structure and Style based writing options). But I wouldn’t use IEW writing, and spelling, and poetry memorization, and ___, plus all of MCT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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