happypamama Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 (edited) I did post to the learning challenges board too, but I could use some specific recommendations. I have a very bright, very curious little guy who will be in seventh grade next year who is likely dyslexic. He loves audiobooks and videos. He also loves learning pretty much anything. Math suggestions, please. He's done Singapore all along and does beautifully with it. His math understanding is very strong, and he picks up concepts quickly. It seems that dyslexia mostly only impacts math by him occasionally writing numbers backwards. Normally, I would move him to AOPS, but that's quite wordy. If it turns out to be too wordy for him, what else works well for strong math students without a lot of reading, as far as prealgebra and algebra? I don't necessarily need video like MUS or TT, as I'm happy to teach him myself, but I'll consider them if warranted. For science and history, we mainly read books, and his auditory understanding is quite excellent. We have always read those aloud to him, since he also has a sibling two years younger, but I'd also like some challenging but reasonable for his age (I think Great Courses are a tad much for him yet) suggestions that come in audio (or I suppose video) form for him too. Maybe I'll just continue reading aloud to them for a couple more years and let him supplement on his own with audio/video, because he does do that for fun voluntarily. Sooooo, what makes good readalouds for history for seventh graders (and also fifth graders with strong vocabulary, because I need to take younger brother and my time into consideration? We are finishing SOTW 4 this year. Edited January 14, 2023 by happypamama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Bean Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 (edited) Math: Have you looked into singaporemathlive's 7 & 8 options using Dimensions Math 7 and 8? https://singaporemathlive.com/dimensions/ History: k12 Human Odyssey Vol. 1-3 series is great and easy to find used. I think it would be fine for continued reading aloud. For more challenge, you could sign up as an independent for the online course. Memoria Press has some middle school books written by Dorothy Mills which come with study guides. Might seem a bit dry, though. https://www.memoriapress.com/curriculum/classical-studies/ BJU online has interesting video courses based on textbooks. Yes, they are religiously biased. We just roll our eyes at some of their comments. 6th and 7th are a series going from Ancients to Modern-ish. Difficulty level is about the same. The videos currently use the previous versions of both courses. In February, BJU will announce the online courses they have updated for fall 2023. This link is to their school site where the updated editions are listed. https://www.bjupress.com/category/heritage-secondary-christian-school-curriculum This link is for the homeschool videos. https://www.bjupresshomeschool.com/category/Video-Lessons#HS If you choose to order from BJU, use a Homeworks consultant to save money. https://www.bjupresshomeschool.com/content/homeworks Science: We like BJU's science courses, as well. Mrs. Gillenwater, who teaches 7th and 8th grade, has made a positive impact on my kids. https://www.bjupresshomeschool.com/category/Video-Lessons#SC John Tiner's Exploring the World of.. series is great. MP carries these, as well. My boys both did the entire series one year. Loved them. You will have to scroll down to see the books. We did not use the MP study guides. The books themselves have short after chapter 'quizzes'. Masterbooks has them listed as high school. They are very much middle school level. https://www.memoriapress.com/curriculum/science/ Apologia has self-paced courses starting with General Science which come with audio reading the book. https://www.apologia.com/online-learning/ None of these might be what you were looking for. If that is the case, I do apologize. Edited January 14, 2023 by Green Bean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted January 14, 2023 Author Share Posted January 14, 2023 39 minutes ago, Green Bean said: Math: Have you looked into singaporemathlive's 7 & 8 options using Dimensions Math 7 and 8? https://singaporemathlive.com/dimensions/ History: k12 Human Odyssey Vol. 1-3 series is great and easy to find used. I think it would be fine for continued reading aloud. For more challenge, you could sign up as an independent for the online course. Memoria Press has some middle school books written by Dorothy Mills which come with study guides. Might seem a bit dry, though. https://www.memoriapress.com/curriculum/classical-studies/ BJU online has interesting video courses based on textbooks. Yes, they are religiously biased. We just roll our eyes at some of their comments. 6th and 7th are a series going from Ancients to Modern-ish. Difficulty level is about the same. The videos currently use the previous versions of both courses. In February, BJU will announce the online courses they have updated for fall 2023. This link is to their school site where the updated editions are listed. https://www.bjupress.com/category/heritage-secondary-christian-school-curriculum This link is for the homeschool videos. https://www.bjupresshomeschool.com/category/Video-Lessons#HS If you choose to order from BJU, use a Homeworks consultant to save money. https://www.bjupresshomeschool.com/content/homeworks Science: We like BJU's science courses, as well. Mrs. Gillenwater, who teaches 7th and 8th grade, has made a positive impact on my kids. https://www.bjupresshomeschool.com/category/Video-Lessons#SC John Tiner's Exploring the World of.. series is great. MP carries these, as well. My boys both did the entire series one year. Loved them. You will have to scroll down to see the books. We did not use the MP study guides. The books themselves have short after chapter 'quizzes'. Masterbooks has them listed as high school. They are very much middle school level. https://www.memoriapress.com/curriculum/science/ Apologia has self-paced courses starting with General Science which come with audio reading the book. https://www.apologia.com/online-learning/ None of these might be what you were looking for. If that is the case, I do apologize. These are great suggestions -- thank you!! I will check into Singapore 7 and 8 -- not sure why I didn't know of those before, but that might be great. I do own the k12 books, so maybe they will work for reading aloud. And thank you for the other course suggestions too -- that's super helpful! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smfmommy Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Crash Course videos (history or science) might be worth a look. Free on youtube, but you can buy worksheets from TPT. We watched all of the Science 101 series (bio/chem/phys) for a science overview last year for a non sciencey 10th grader, dyslexic 8th, and advanced 6th grader. We did a generic experiment set or two along with it. Not exactly riveting prose, but a history encyclopedia like Kingfisher or Usborne could be read in a year with just one or two page spreads a day. Then you can find youtube topical videos as his interest dictates. My dyslexic boy did MEP years 7-9. The explanations are to the point. There were times I had to add extra explanations but he didn't balk at reading them himself. Being free was a nice perk too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted January 16, 2023 Author Share Posted January 16, 2023 8 hours ago, smfmommy said: Crash Course videos (history or science) might be worth a look. Free on youtube, but you can buy worksheets from TPT. We watched all of the Science 101 series (bio/chem/phys) for a science overview last year for a non sciencey 10th grader, dyslexic 8th, and advanced 6th grader. We did a generic experiment set or two along with it. Not exactly riveting prose, but a history encyclopedia like Kingfisher or Usborne could be read in a year with just one or two page spreads a day. Then you can find youtube topical videos as his interest dictates. My dyslexic boy did MEP years 7-9. The explanations are to the point. There were times I had to add extra explanations but he didn't balk at reading them himself. Being free was a nice perk too. Thank you!! He will probably love Crash Course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 I have 3 dyslexics. I used MUS's alg and geo as pre-alg and pre-geo (in a single yr) followed by Foerster's alg. We don't use textbooks for science until high school and never for history. I have always just used books that appeal to us. One suggestion I have is to have him read along with audiobooks. It helped my kids increase their reading speed bc their silent reading speed was so incredibly slow. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momto6inIN Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 Video Text doesn't require much reading and is very conceptual. My mathy one used it before we found AoPS and was able to complete it very quickly. We like K12's Human Odyssey for middle school history. I've never read it aloud, but I know some who do and say it's a good one for that. And Hakim's concise 4 volume set for US History would be a good read aloud too I think. No help for science, sorry! 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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