English Lessons Through Literature Q…

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  • January 21, 2016 at 6:06 pm
    Rebekah
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    How do you decide placement on this? Going by the copy work, I’d think one grade level behind for my kids. Going by the grammar, I’d think two grade levels behind in order to be in line with CM’s guidelines. But then maybe the copy work would be too easy? It’s hard to tell just looking at the first week or twos worth of lessons in the samples. I’m sure the copy work gets longer as the year goes.

    How did you decide placement?

    January 22, 2016 at 6:49 am
    HollyS
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    Two of my kids are using it one grade behind.  My oldest is 3 grades behind because level 5 is the highest level out (and she hadn’t done much grammar or writing).  Somewhere I read students should finish levels 4 & 5 before high school.  Honestly, the levels repeat quite a bit, so placement isn’t a huge issue.

    It is a cross between CM and classical methods, so the grammar is covered earlier than other CM programs.  The grammar in level 2 is pretty light though…DD just labels things like nouns, pronouns, and verbs, and memorizing definitions of the parts of speech.  We haven’t used Level 3, but Levels 4 & 5 have lots of diagramming (with Level 4 having a bit more than Level 5).  My understanding is that Level 3 focuses on narrations, and Level 1 teaches a bit of capitalization & punctuation.

    We haven’t done much with the copywork.  Two of my DC are using Print to Cursive Proverbs.  My oldest selects her own (Levels 4 and 5 have them pick their own passages from the literature or another book they are reading).

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