CW Aesop users, a question

[bkpan]

Do you stop all other copywork and dictation once you begin this writing program? And I was planning on continuing on with R & S grammar, just skipping all of the writing exercises. Sound good??

Thanks!

Kim in TN (used to be in NV)

[Susan in SoCal]

I did. Copywork and dictation is built into CW Aesop.

Your plan sounds good to me.

[Jackie in AR]

Do you stop all other copywork and dictation once you begin this writing program? And I was planning on continuing on with R & S grammar, just skipping all of the writing exercises. Sound good??

Thanks!

Kim in TN (used to be in NV)

That is exactly what we do.

[Beth in Central TX]

I stop the additional copywork when we start CW. R&S spelling has built in dictated sentences with their weekly spelling tests, and I still include those even with CW. Up to the point, I have been doing CW and R&S including all of the writing lessons. Next year when we start R&S grammar 7, I'm considering doing this program over 2 years or I may drop the writing lessons.

I've found that the R&S writing portion covers items that I may not find in CW like how to write a friendly letter. Therefore, I think it's worth our time to do these lessons. I don't always have them write out the lesson, and I sometimes have them just make notecards and give their writing assignment orally.

[adrienne]

We use CW aesop and occasionally do copywork from SOTW or our history copybook. Every time I reread TWTM, I'm reminded of how little copywork we actually do.... and that we should be doing more.

[Narrow Gate Academy]

We didn't stop dictation and grammar. We're still doing dictation daily for about 10 or 15 minutes and using R&S 3 for grammar just skipping the writing sections. My 3rd grader would have revolted at writing a rough draft by hand, editing it, and then recopying it by hand. We prefer to type the CW lessons. Also, spreading out one lesson over two weeks, I just felt that 1 grammar lesson, 1 dictation lesson, and 1 writing assignment every two weeks was lighter than I was comfortable with because writing is our main core focus this year.

[pixelroper]

what we do here as well-

R&S has really prepared her for CW, I am considering fading out R&S as we continue in CW, I was worried it would get to repetitious. Any thoughts on that? Will I regret it in the long run?
I like to randomly have dd do other copywork b/c I'm mean:).