LA's, 4th, & scheduling?

[one l michele]

How did you determine frequency with all the LA's components?

I have:
Reading Detective - twice a week?
assigned reading - daily
Megawords - daily
Daily Language Review - this is written to do 4 days per week
Winston Grammar - parsing 2 sentences per day
Proofreading - twice a week?
IEW - 1 writing lesson per week, the other days he works on assignment, 1 composition per week
we also do read alouds daily

Is this too little, too much, or right on for 4th?

Would you add or change anything?

[Spock]

I lean toward Charlotte Mason, with some WTM added in, so mine may be too streamlined for you. What my 4th grader will be doing for English this year:


Daily read alouds of literature above her level
Daily poetry read aloud
Daily assigned reading (often, but not always related to history)
Daily reading for fun (includes some books below her level)
Oral narrations (CM style, long and detailed) for her assigned readings and read alouds


Grammar (Rod & Staff 4), 4-5 days a week
Dictation, 4 days a week (from history, literature, science, reading, or Bible)
Mad Libs once a week
Written narrations (WWE style, short 2-4 sentence summaries, usually of history or science) 2x week
Oral narrations (WWE style, short 2-4 sentence summaries, usually of history or science, with me writing what she says) 2x week.
Answering her questions about vocabulary from books read to her, books she reads, and things she hears from her brothers (high school) and from TV and other sources

[patchfire]

For us next year, dd will be doing:

grammar (a combo of some critical thinking company workbooks and JAG), three days a week
assigned reading, five days a week
writing (Writing Tales), five days a week,
and spelling (All About Spelling), five days a week.

Spelling is a weak area, though, and my goal is to move to doing it just three days a week by the end of fourth grade. If it weren't such a weak area for her, I would only do it three days a week.

I don't really count it towards 'school,' but she also listens to a read-aloud daily and does lots of independent reading, her choice of books.

[AudreyTN]

Next year my 4th grader will be doing LLATL Orange and Writing Strands 3.

We'll also do read alouds, silent reading, poetry, and English From the Roots Up for vocabulary.

[SilverMoon]

I'm not familiar with all those programs, but that sounds like a lot for a fourth grader. I lean towards the relaxed end of the classical spectrum though. :001_smile:

My girl starting fourth grade this fall will be using:
~First Language Lessons 3
~Spelling Wisdom
~assigned reading in smaller chunks
~free reading in bigger chunks
~narration, dictation and copywork

Daily-ish.

[LNC]

I have a 4th grader this year.

CLE Lang arts 5x (w/o spelling section)
CLE Reading 5x (1rst semester)
Veritas Comp Guides 5x (2nd semester)
CLP Spelling 5x
Worldly Wise 5x (didn't keep up with this - complete over summer)
WWE 2 5x (will do 3&4 next year when the workbooks come out)

*most read alouds and assigned readers are w/ history cycle. She also has a "fun" book going at all times. Right now- my old Nancy Drew yellow series :).

[plimsoll]

Here's our schedule re LA:

Daily, during the school day:
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reading (usually fiction) - 30 min (usually first thing, with breakfast)
Latin - 30 min (includes word roots, vocabulary, grammar)
Greek - 10 min (will eventually include word roots, vocabulary, grammar)
writing - 45-60 min (we use IEW and CW, in rotation)
word roots or vocabulary - 15 min
grammar - 15 min
history or science reading - 15 min
analogies - 10-15 min, 1-2x/week

Daily afterschool and weekend reading:
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(often done driving to other activities or during errands)
science or history reading - 15 min
fiction reading - 30 min or more

Evening family work - typically 3 evenings/week:
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Parents reading aloud (alternating history and literature) - 15-25 min
(currently reading Bullfinch's Mythology and A Mental Floss History of the World)
Memory work (history, science, math, geography facts; poetry) - 5-15 min