alexandramarie Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 I really like to streamline. If I am using Rod and Staff English and having my kids do one written narration a day and lots of oral narrations and discussions, do I need a writing curriculum? I keep going back and forth between getting something like Writing and Rhetoric or just allowing Rod and Staff to be enough. My children will be in 3rd and 4th grade. We use a mix of Latin Centered Curriculum and Ambleside Online/ Charlotte Mason. Charlotte Mason didn't believe in teaching composition, Latin Centered Curriculum says your don't need to do grammar. I want to do something... I have 6 children, so I want whatever I choose to be the most effective and efficient. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandramarie Posted June 20, 2019 Author Share Posted June 20, 2019 My kids have done some Latin and my fourth grader will be using Latina Christiana this year. I plan on sticking with Memoria Press for Latin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 I don't think you need something else on top of it right now, no. Written narrations are enough for elementary. I would suggest reassessing in middle school, and again in high school, to be sure they have writing skills appropriate for those ages. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollyhock2 Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Yes, definitely enough. And depending on the ages of your kids, you could cut down the number of written narrations to two a week. They don't *need* to be every day. You can do oral ones on the other days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 5 hours ago, alexandramarie said: I really like to streamline. If I am using Rod and Staff English and having my kids do one written narration a day and lots of oral narrations and discussions, do I need a writing curriculum? I keep going back and forth between getting something like Writing and Rhetoric or just allowing Rod and Staff to be enough. My children will be in 3rd and 4th grade. We use a mix of Latin Centered Curriculum and Ambleside Online/ Charlotte Mason. Charlotte Mason didn't believe in teaching composition, Latin Centered Curriculum says your don't need to do grammar. I want to do something... I have 6 children, so I want whatever I choose to be the most effective and efficient. Thank you! If you require your dc to do the written work in all of the lessons, not just the actual writing lessons, then YES! R&S's English totally enough. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emily ZL Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 I think it depends on what you want to focus on. We do R&S English but I just picked out 36 of the most important lessons at the beginning of the year and do only one per week, and we don't do written narrations or the R&S writing. And then we use the extra time to do Writing & Rhetoric. I just wanted him to work especially on writing. And I've always been bad at narrations, personally. I agree to check back in later in middle school... I've always wondered how the CM kids get from written narrations to more complex forms of writing. But if course, you don't need a program to teach that necessarily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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