How does Mosdos Literature compare with Lightning Lit

[hpymomof3]

I used Lightning Lit with my dd last year for 7th grade. It was ok but she found it a little boring. I'm also looking for a reading program to use with my 5th grade son next fall. Stacytea mentioned Mosdos and it looks like a great program. The only problem is that it is pretty expensive. Lightning Lit is cheaper but after buying all the separate books they would probably be similar in price. It looks like all the stories are included in the Mosdos book.

This is an area where my kids seem to be lacking so I really want a good program so I might be willing to spend the extra money for Mosdos if it is good.

[MIch elle]

I had both Mosdos Pearl (TM & SM) and LL&C 7 and sold both in favor of CLE reading. It's a reader with 5 workbooks that's easy to use and covers a of lot of material in reading comprehension, critical thinking skills, literary analysis and more. It's only a 15 week course if you use it 5 days/week. We break it up between whole books and spread it out over the year.

Here's what included in CLE reading 5:

SUNRISE READING 500 – Open Windows
LightUnit 501
Vocabulary words
Cause and effect
Identifying strong, active verbs
Describing story characters
Identifying similes
Defining words from context
Choosing facts to support a statement
Writing progressive degrees of a concept
Working with personification
Proving or disproving statements about a
story
Identifying and interpreting figures of
speech
Completing analogies
Inferring facts not directly stated
Understanding circumstantial evidence
and proof
Defining and using homographs
Understanding the term idiom
Interpreting common idioms
Answering five W questions
Numbering story events in order
Telling what story characters learned from
the way God worked
Listing traits of story characters
Working with rhythm and rhyme scheme
in poetry
LightUnit 502
Working with vocabulary words
Defining words from context
Understanding a proverb
Creating an alternate story title
Identifying character’s feelings
Identifying the most important event in a
story
Completing analogies that have more than
one correct answer
Understanding a nonverbal message
Predicting what happened after the story
Inferring facts not directly stated
Marking poetic rhythm
Using principle and principal
Scanning for answers or topics
Evaluating story characters’ actions
Identifying a story’s main lesson
Understanding the meaning of prejudice
and its foolishness
Identifying a biography
Defining foot as used in poetry
Identifying metrical feet in a poem
Thinking about race prejudice
Working with synonyms
Marking rhythm in a poem
LightUnit 503
Working with vocabulary words
Inferring facts not directly stated
Telling what could have happened
Identifying main ideas and summaries
Describing story characters
Identifying a characters fears and hardships
Learning about other inventions of
Benjamin Franklin
Marking poetic rhythm and meter
Working with perfect and imperfect rhyme
Numbering unstated events in order
Identifying figures of speech
Defining and identifying metaphors
Finding evidence to support statements
Outlining a simple story plot
Explaining a figure of speech
Identifying metaphors, similes, and personification
Defining words from their context
Suggesting others whom the sinking of the
Titanic would have affected
Comparing a poem and a story
Identifying main ideas of paragraphs
Explaining the meanings of sentences
Understanding conflict, internal conflict,
and external conflict
Identifying areas of conflict in the story
LightUnit 504: Out in Nature
Working with vocabulary words
Identifying cause and effect
Identifying the story purpose and details
that further the story purpose
Working with guide words
Using the dictionary
Finding metaphors in the Bible
Inferring facts not directly stated
Defining biography
Identifying a metaphor in a poem
Scanning to locate facts
Writing an essay imagining he is Peter
walking on the water
Identifying a metaphor from the story
Defining words from their context
Marking the rhyme scheme of a poem
Writing another title for the story
Making a prediction
Categorizing natural resources
Naming reference books needed to find
answers to given questions
Identifying hints of how a character will act
Defining free verse
Identifying main ideas, story lessons, and
summaries of stories
Completing a poetic couplet
Reading about KJV Bible
Rewriting KJV phrases in modern English
Identifying characters, setting, external
and internal conflict in the story
Understanding a character’s actions
Imagining what might have happened
LightUnit 505
Working with vocabulary words.
Understanding story characters’ actions
and feelings
Describing story characters
Working with main idea, story lesson, and
summary
Thinking about idle words
Working with personification
Making a simple outline of a story
Categorizing words
Explaining an idiom
Identifying emotions as shown by words
Interpreting figures of speech
Defining circumstantial evidence
Scanning for answers
Imagining details not given
Imagining story characters’ feelings and
explaining possible reasons for their
actions
Telling what might have happened
Defining words from their context
Inferring facts not directly stated
Identifying similes
Choosing exact, specific verbs to replace
weak ones
Learning the term epigram

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