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Posted: July 28 2008 at 8:26pm | IP Logged Quote At_His_Feet
LA seems to be the bain of my life!
I have sorted out all our other subjects and feel that we are in our groove with history, maths, religion etc but L.A. AARGH!!!! I have chopped and changed so many times and still have yet to find the right balance. I somethimes feel that we are LA overloaded. ie. grammar, spelling, handwriting, reading, writing. Once these things are finished it feel like school should be over!

So I was wondering how you order your LA curriculum and why? Do you not bother with writing until your dc have a handle on spelling? How many L.A subjects do you do per day? etc

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Posted: July 30 2008 at 5:21pm | IP Logged Quote ahappyheart
Tricia,
I have tried on and off a few other LA programs, but I always go back to Abeka Language and Abeka Spelling. This is our 6th year using it. I think it's a good solid program. The Language books contain, grammar and writing and vocabulary building and the spelling books contain spelling and poetry to memorize. I like how easy it is for me to assign parts based on my children's needs and know that we don't have to do every single assignment to be successful. The books have a constant review built in. I also like the variety of the assignments, which I do not have to dream up on my own. Besides Abeka I have my children read independently two novels each per quarter, one related to our history studies and one related to our science studies. In the younger years I have my children work through the Abeka Handwriting books. Abeka is not a Catholic publisher, but I have not found their Language and Spelling materials to be particularly Protestant either, just Christian in general. I hope it's okay to say that.
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I have found Learning Language Arts Through Literature to be helpful in my home. It covers grammar, spelling, some writing, poetry, plays, public speaking and memorization, etc. Like Susan Marie, I don't have ds do everything. We skip some assignments, change some to make more fun or more in line with what we might be doing in another subject and generally make it what works for us. It is an outline and a starting point to help me get MY creative juices going and also cover the bases of the grade level we are working in.
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We've been using Language of God and Spelling Power, and while they have worked for us we are just burnt out.

This year we are going to do all the Lively Language lessons written by our wonderful Elizabeth and Colleen.

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I really like Hillside's Language Lessons. Grammar, writing, poetry, and more spread out over the year so we don't get bogged down. We have CHC's Spellers and I think they are good. Mostly we do them because my kids just like them. Otherwise, I'd just not bother with a seperate spelling program. It seems regular reading, writing, and editing skills do just as well for spelling as any of the programs I have.

I also have Spelling Power and Natural Speller, of which I think Natural Speller is the better of the two. Again though, I don't use them anymore and haven't noticed a significant difference.

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