English for the Thoughtful Child vs. Serl's Language Lessons

I haven’t used both, but I can address your second question. EFTTC doesn’t focus on parts of speech. It mainly gives some gentle lessons in proper use of the English language in various applications. For example, beginning punctuation for statements, questions, exclamations, commands; capitalizing proper names, cities, days of the week, months of the year, etc.; writing initials; how to write dates; writing a letter and how to address the envelope; using “was” and “were” and “has” and “have” properly; contractions. Those concepts are intermingled with observation and oral narration exercises, plus some nice poems that can be memorized or just enjoyed.

You could probably find the table of contents for EFTTC and try to point out those concepts in your child’s copywork, but I would think it might be simpler to just do the short lessons once or twice a week using EFTTC. You can do most of them orally on the couch. You might do copywork three days a week and EFTTC twice a week or something simple like that. Just some thoughts. Do what works best. I’m all for simple!

I don’t think EFTTC 2’s emphasis is much different from Volume 1. Take a look at the EFTTC 2 lesson titles listed in the Bookfinder and see what you think. Obviously, the lessons on writing quotations would need to be written, but I think you could still do most of the lessons orally.