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Start: 2025-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
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Tagged: Art of Composition, composition

This topic has 11 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 1 month, 1 week ago by Karen Smith.

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October 11, 2024 at 9:36 am
KeriJ
Participant
So excited about this! I just ordered!
Is it possible to get a general scope and sequence of the next few levels? Just generally what would be covered in each level? Because I will definitely be using this series with my youngest 2 students, but I am trying to decide if I want to make a switch and use it as a “crash course” with my 11th grader. So it would help to have an idea of where it is ultimately going.
October 12, 2024 at 10:47 am
ErinD
Participant
I would love to hear your review of this once you get it. I haven’t looked at it yet but I sure will when I get time. Looks really interesting!
October 12, 2024 at 1:02 pm
KeriJ
Participant
Erin, yes, I will let you know! I am looking through it this week. I love it so far! Can’t wait to see the next levels eventually!
October 14, 2024 at 10:06 am
ErinD
Participant
I finally looked through the sample and I really liked it. I love the idea of having kids write narrations and then use those in a writing lesson from this book once a week. I also really like the topics covered. So practical and straight-forward! If I was going to buy a writing curriculum, this might be the one.
October 14, 2024 at 4:15 pm
Karen Smith
Moderator
I know this was posted in the SCM Facebook group. There are homeschooling parents on the forum who are not on Facebook, so I’m posting the general scope and sequence for the composition course here too.
As a whole 4-year course, “The Art of Composition” will teach students advanced editing skills, logical flow, the creative writing process, and essay building. They will also complete other specific writing exercises to work through various challenges they may experience in their communications.
October 14, 2024 at 6:48 pm
thankful
Participant
Are there plans for ULW 4 and 5? Or does “The Art of Composition” replace those?
I’m not on Facebook at all. I appreciate the info on this forum!
October 15, 2024 at 10:48 am
Karen Smith
Moderator
There are plans (in the works!) to finish out the Using Language Well series. The Art of Composition does not replace ULW but is a complement to it.
As usual, we don’t have release dates yet. We are working diligently on many projects at this time and will announce when they are ready for purchase in our weekly email and in our Facebook group.
October 16, 2024 at 6:49 am
Ruralmama
Participant
Thank you Karen. I am also not 9n Facebook at all. I really liked when this forum was more active.
I am very interested in the composition course as well. I think I will use it next year. My dyslexic son is 13 and doing very well with ULaW and spelling wisdom level 3 this year along side All About Spelling. I was trying a writing “program” this year,but after teaching nothing that I hadn’t already taught him, I am having him work on writing fluency with more written narrations than he had been doing. Mechanics and spelling are slowly slowly coming, but his writing is getting longer!
February 12, 2025 at 8:34 pm
Stefanie
Participant
I really like the looks of this! Do you know if the series will cover research papers/academic writing and using MLA format?
February 14, 2025 at 4:23 pm
Karen Smith
Moderator
One of The Art of Composition books will have the student complete a multi-week writing project, which could be used to do a research paper. How to cite sources and the use of style guides, including MLA, will be covered as part of that multi-week project.
May 4, 2025 at 6:51 pm
Angie
Participant
Do you know when Year 2 of The Art of Composition will be released?
May 5, 2025 at 12:19 pm
Karen Smith
Moderator
I can’t tell you when Art of Composition will be released because publishing schedules change all the time. I can tell you that it is being worked on and will be available to purchase as soon as it is published and we have it in our warehouse ready to ship.