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Maria B.
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Posted: March 04 2007 at 10:53pm | IP Logged Quote Maria B.
My daughter just finished "Stories with a View" from Hillside Education. She absolutely loved it and wrote some wonderful pieces! Can anyone recommend "where" to go next? We do a lot of narration, but I am looking for something that is self-directed. This child loves to write and to be challenged. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Posted: March 09 2007 at 8:23am | IP Logged Quote Karen E.
Maria,

I see that no one has responded, and I'm wondering if it's just due to an unfamiliarity with "Stories with a View"?

I'm sorry! I'm never much help with these threads, because I rarely use formal writing programs.

I haven't seen "Stories with a View" myself, but just looked at Hillside's website. Would their "Frost on the Window Pane" be something that would work? You could follow it just for the writing activities and leave out the rest (the price is certainly right as a pick-and-choose resource).

Would Lingua Mater be too advanced?

My girls (inspired by a couple of other blogging daughters from this board) love keeping up their own blogs. If you want to combine some composition with keyboarding, you can set up a private blog, give her a list of topics to blog about (or let her come up with her own) and see what happens.

I know that some people like Writing Strands and I've also heard good things about Andrew Pudewa's IEW (Institute for Excellence in Writing.)

I'd love to see more discussion about this!

Anyone used the above-mentioned resources, or have reactions to share?

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Karen E. wrote:
Would their "Frost on the Window Pane" be something that would work? You could follow it just for the writing activities and leave out the rest (the price is certainly right as a pick-and-choose resource).


The writing activities in "Frost on the Windowpane" are tied to a reading of the book Little House in the Big Woods, so they wouldn't make much sense on their own, I don't think.

Anyone can put together their own Stories with a View!! If she likes that style and you don't want to start something new on the "downside" of the year, you can find art prints and poem, one each week, and print them out for her. I found all the paintings for SWV at Art Resource. Although you can't use the images there to sell them or post them on the Internet without paying a license fee, you can print them out to have your dd look at them. I had an old poem book that I used for most of the poems . . . so you could pick up a poetry book at the library.

I do not recommend Lingua Mater until the child is 12, or is in 6th grade at least. IEW might be a good choice.
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