To those who combine R&S with IEW

[SkiMom]

Do you do the writing lessons in R&S? If you do, do you find that the two different methods confuse your dc? For example...the outlining and the report writing methods. Any other suggestions for combining them? TIA!

[newlifemom]

Hmm, not sure, we are a tad behind in Grammar and will write our first report I think in the next few weeks. It might, but I have found that in education there are so many different ways to learn things in many subjects and have tried to show that to dd. Sometimes coming to a subject from a different perspective helps one to understand the subject matter better. KWIM?

[MIch elle]

We're currently doing R&S E.6 and IEW Ancient History Based Writing Lessons. We do most of the composition lessons in R&S because dc need how to do a traditional outline vs. a key word outline, and the R&S tests will have questions on the composition part. R&S/IEW re-inforce one another. We may not do all writing assignment in R&S but we always read the comp. lessons and do some of the class practice for the lesson. Dc didn't do the written exercises in R&S E.6 lesson 41 because it would take too long, but he did do lesson 37 outline on the computer. I think there is great value in learning writing with both R&S and IEW.

 

There are 2 types of outlining in R&S, topical & sentence. IEW key word outlines are like topical outlines.

 

HTH!

[Stacy in NJ]

We don't do the writing lessons in R&S. I just feel it would be overkill. He works on an IEW assignment 3 days per week and additional assignments via History/Science.

[Jan in Utah]

We do the writing assignments in R&S and I feel they have been an almost painless way to ease into writing.

 

Jan