Language: CLE vs. Lightning Lit vs. Masterbooks

[JessReplanted]

Hello everyone! I am a long time homeschooler. We graduated our oldest this year, and I am now rethinking everything for my youngest (2nd grade). 

We have typically used CLE for Lang. arts up until at least grade 6.  However, I am learning that it is ok to let go of a little "rigor" if it means adding in more joy. I'm also really exhausted of the same old routine and I feel like I need to shake things up to make the school year more enjoyable. 

I like the idea of Lightning Lit because I love stories, and spending the year reading stories sounds fun. 

I have considered still using CLE, but excluding certain sections and adding in Lightning Lit with it. 

But,  I have friends who use Masterbooks and really enjoy it. I  had thought that it looked too easy, but maybe it's enough?  

Any thoughts? 

[Janeway]

I really like TGTB. I am quite curious about Lightening Lit.

[Servant4Christ]

I'm probably not much help because I've never used either program, but I've thoroughly researched both of them over the years. Masterbooks seems very light, indeed. Lighting Lit looks great and I might've given it a try if I hadn't found an English program we like or if we wanted to integrate our Reading with English and Writing. We used CLE for years and then switched to Rod & Staff before I knew about LL, though. I like that the lessons are actually shorter than CLE and I can assign only what I want done in a given day and speed up/ slow down as needed. For some reason, keeping Reading separate from English works better for us.

Edited August 14, 2021 by Servant4Christ