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Posted: April 25 2015 at 7:45pm | IP Logged Quote pumpkinmom
I have too many grammar programs!

I'm working on next year's grammar plans for my (will be) 11 yo ds (will be 6th grade). I just need a little advice or help with my choices.

This year we used both (but not at the same time) Winston Grammar and IEW's Fix It. They are very similiar programs and Fix It has won me over. I thought it needed more instruction but I recently noticed it has a grammar glossary in the back which had the extra instruction I was looking for. We didn't finish either program this year but got through most of the basic grammar in Winston and about 12 weeks of the Fix It.

I want to continue with the Fix It next year and finish it (I have the second book in the series already on my shelf too. I do not have the next Winston Grammar program and that would be another purchase and a good reason to stick with Fix It).

But, I also have Lingua Mater Language Lessons From Literature on my shelf too (found it really cheap new on Amazon one day and couldn't resist purchasing not knowing if I even needed it). I've been going through that all day today. It is a completely different approach and has some writing. I like it too.

I know doing both Fix It and Lingua Mater would be too much grammar . . . . right? I just really like them both and want to use them both. I know ds would like the Fix It better and would complain about the front cover of the Lingua Mater book (which has girls on the front) and tell me the book is for girls. (Which would explain why I like the book so much!)

I know it looks like I have my decision made but I just keep drooling over the LM book. Help!



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Posted: April 27 2015 at 7:28am | IP Logged Quote Becky Parker
Hi Cassie,
I have used both Fix It and Lingua Mater. I think the emphasis is different. While Fix It is mostly about editing and improving passages already written, LM has more opportunity for the student to write his own. Could you use them side by side with the intention of only partially completing them? You might even go through the LM book and note the lessons that would be interesting for your boys (so they wouldn't think it's all girly stuff). That way, they would get the benefits of both resources without being overwhelmed.

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Posted: April 27 2015 at 2:19pm | IP Logged Quote pumpkinmom
Becky, I can see them being used side by side too. I just don't know if it's necessary or too much. I would take two years to do LM if I used it. I would certainly skip some of the writing assignments because my son isn't going to write about how reading that poem made him feel. The Fix It program is mostly reviewing everything taught in the end, so if mastered it could be skipped or used less often.

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