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"English Lessons Through Literature" curriculum?
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Angelina, we’re using All About Reading right now. My son can read way past what our lessons are on, except learning all the rules. I like the use of letter tiles and little games. The stories have been cute. But I just wonder if there’s an easier way to learn all this.
How this compare to English Lessons through Literature?
I have not used AAR but did use ELTL as well as RLTL.
ELTL is grammar, spelling, reading…
RLTL is learning to read through phonograms and building a spelling “log” or journal. Looking back through this thread, I see that I posted on it about using RLTL. I ended up not continuing it. I think it was a good program, just not for me and my kido’s. We ended up basically doing something more like Delightful Reading with out knowing it. I taught them the letter sounds and phonogram blends first and then we just started building words and I just went at their pace until they could read. I don’t stress rules because I feel like they come up often (for example silent e and all of its jobs) but I taught those as words came up that we were building. Since I have never used AAR, I am not sure if you need to continue if your child is reading well, or if you can simply set it aside and just read books that interest him and teach spelling rules as they come up through copy work and dictation (at later age/grade).
I liked ELTL alright but found that I prefer to have subjects broken apart instead of all tied together. I like to have spelling its own subject, a book we are reading to be its own thing, poetry and even picture study. I like it broken apart in case I decide that I don’t want to read a specific book, or if that book is just not going over well with the kids. I don’t want to feel like I have to “slodge” through because all the subjects are tired to that book. I like flexibility of subjects not being tied together. Or if we did not get to the poem that day then I would have to remember to flip back to it, and then I often forgot so we never got to poetry, or the picture study lesson would come up on a day that was just crazy and I would forget to do it. But simply writing poetry (or picture study) on my weekly schedule I remember to do it on Wednesday (for example) because that is the day that works for me.
That said some people really like having subjects tied together and for that it is a great program.
LLTL works for me, but I kind of use it how I want. 😉
There are no spelling lessons in LLTL.
I like the poetry since it is an easy way to keep appropriate and fun poetry going daily. Then I chose one longer poem to just focus on for about 6 weeks to read and memorize. We have poetry tea time once a week where we focus on our term poet, so if I miss a day, I do not stress about it.
I use the fables to continue practicing detailed oral narrations. I have the Milo Winter version, so I usually look them up in that for the illustrations and because I bought the book to use before I started LLTL. Gotta get my money’s worth. :} Last week one of my daughters was acting it out with her stuffed animals.
I use the picture study along with my regular selection – I have 2 going each term, but I alternate the weeks. I display each picture in a frame until we trade. I made small versions of each picture the kids put in their own art book each time. I like her choices and they generally aren’t ones that SCM has porfolios for yet. The author has them available as free full color, full size pictures on her lulu site, so I use them. I do not do the picture study the day it is listed in the lessons, I wait and do it the day I have assigned to picture study.
I haven’t overly stressed the grammar part, but they are learning some of it. We talk about it and do the lesson orally from the teachers book. We will cover it in more detail later.
I use audio books for a lot of her choices because the chapters are so long. The kids eat breakfast and do copywork while they listen. It sort of eases them into school mind set and gives me a chance to finish getting my ducks in order for other subjects.
I do have other books that I want my kids to listen to, so I use LLTL 3 times a week and do other literature the other 2 days. On those days, copywork might be their names, addresses, and phone numbers, a scripture we are memorizing, or I will find a sentence from the book to do. Right now, LLTL has them listening to The Wind in the Willows and on the other days, I have them listening to Heidi.
For the most part, I like the organization and selections of LLTL. I do not have to make lots of daily decisions about what we are doing.
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