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For those of you who use apologia's Jump In!

Name: Teach Them Diligently (Pigeon Forge)
Start: 2025-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-10T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Pigeon Forge, TN

Tagged: 6th grade, composition, Grammar, Language arts, writing, writing skills

This topic has 5 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 7 months ago by 4myboys.

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August 12, 2012 at 2:00 pm
4myboys
Participant
I am wondering which grade most of you are using this for and what level of grammar and writing ability a student should be at to begin using it. I have it, but I’m not sure if I should use it this year for my dysgraphic 6th grader or put it away for a year or two, or to try to spread it out over the next 3 years rather than two…How does your child use this program?
August 12, 2012 at 8:06 pm
Jennifer WI
Member
I’m just starting it with my 7th grade (12 year old) son. He is a fairly strong writer already and ok with grammar as well. My ds10 who has dysgraphic/dyslexic tendancies (I’ve not had him tested but I know he’s on the spectrum) would not be ready for Jump In. I just need him to continue working on getting things down on paper, making sentences, etc. Jump In is a way to start organizing their writing for reports, etc, while my ds10 really has nothing to organize yet. Does that make sense? He’s simply not ready. I don’t know that he’ll be ready in 7th grade. I’d be really happy if he could do it well in 8th or 9th, just knowing his skill level now.
August 12, 2012 at 8:32 pm
Bookworm
Participant
I use it in 7th grade and 8th grade, and in conjunction with my grammar program, as I feel they go together well. I do not use it until I am certain my students can do a reasonably OK written narration–meaning, they can write in sentences, and tell a fairly coherent story.
August 12, 2012 at 10:52 pm
4myboys
Participant
Thanks, ladies. Bookworm, which grammar program do you use?
August 13, 2012 at 12:58 pm
Bookworm
Participant
Our Mother Tongue.
August 13, 2012 at 1:12 pm
4myboys
Participant
Thanks.