Combining Brave Writer and Writing with Ease

[Ali Wright]

Hello! I have a 9 yo boy and 7 yo girl that I have been homeschooling from the beginning. I've tended to espouse the "better late than early" philosophy and have worked for a lot of delight and interest-driven projects in our homeschool, which has been great. However, I have a 9 yo that struggles with writing. We spent last year really focusing on handwriting mechanics and penmanship and I can now dictate some short sentences and he does a bit of writing of his own interest/choice, but I'd really like to make this a major focus for this year. We've yet to do any written narration so I was looking into FLL Level 1. I think it may be a bit easy for him at this moment but I don't feel he's ready for Level 2 yet. I'll also be using FLL with both kids (my 9 yo could probably use with Level 2 work but I'm going to combine both kids in Level 1 this year).

We've traditionally used some BW products and I love them. I have the Dart subscription for the year and we are also working through some Jot it Down projects. 

I would really love to get my son through Levels 1 and 2 of WWE this year but question if that's too much with the Dart subscription as well, especially as we traditionally have a four day homeschooling week and do field trips or get-togethers on one day of the week.

For those that combine BW for more of the literature and creative writing along with the structural foundation of FLL and WWE, how do you work those together? 

Thank you!

[desertflower]

I did FLL over lunch twice a week. Skipped the copywork and dictation part.

Did WWE as is. I didn't start dictation regularly though. But I am late on that. I will start this year.

I did some projects from jot it down. Not all of them.

Then do dart as is. Just watch on the copywork output. Dart, WWE, and FLL all have copywork.

I plan on doing arrow (not every month), wwe/wws (depend on child), FLL 4, and writing and rhetoric this year. This year we are concentrating on LA. I have neglected some of LA.

Hth