R&S English people...when do you add a....

[Janice Lyn]

writing program to it. My daughter is only on grade 2, the first english book and she loves it. I think it is good and thorough, but we do skip some assignments and do some orally. At what grade level would you feel it necessary to add a formal writing program?

She does copywork for handwriting, journal once per week and a penpal letter once per week.

I'd love to know anyones thoughts on this.

Thanks!
Janice

[MIch elle]

:)My general statement - girls gr.4;boys gr.5

[Lolly]

You really don't need to add a writing program. R&S is very complete and has excellent writing instruction. The hard part is incorporating it into your other subjects. You need to have dc start outlining in subject areas after they have learned how to outline. Start taking notes after learning note taking. You get the picture.

[Janice Lyn]

You both have given me something to think about. It is interesting to have one daughter absolutely hate it and the other love it. They are all so different. Now, if I can only figure out what to do for my older daughter..........

Thanks again!
Janice

[OnTheBrink]

You really don't need to add a writing program. R&S is very complete and has excellent writing instruction. The hard part is incorporating it into your other subjects. You need to have dc start outlining in subject areas after they have learned how to outline. Start taking notes after learning note taking. You get the picture.

I agree with this. We're doing R&S 5 and I was going to add a writing program, but after working with this so far, I think adding one would be overkill.

[Suzanne in ABQ]

I agree with this also. We started at Grade 3 (after First Language Lessons). Dd is now in Grade 6, and Ds is in Grade 4. I have been happy with the writing instruction in R&S. This is the first year we will do a writing program. Dd will finish R&S Grade 6 in just about a month, and I will be doing IEW or Classical Writing with her for the rest of the year. She actually writes very well, but I'm excited to have this opportunity to concentrate solely on writing for a season.