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Jump In – how do you schedule
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missceegee – or others who have used Bravewriter, I’d still love to hear if you continued using BW along with Jump In, or dropped it for. Jump In.
Bookworm – thanks for your clarification, that helps in gauging when he is ready for this 🙂
Sorry, I missed this. I’m using only written narration and Jump In. I own brave writer and dd13 did a short online class last year, but that’s it. We already do poetry and I will implement even more free writing as well as some bw ideas, but jump in is great for the step by step we needed. I’m teaching it to a group of 8, too.
Bumping this. I have Bravewriter, but want to use Jump In and Written narrations too. And what about grammar and dictation? I am not sure what to use for grammar. We have Spelling Wisdom. Do I use all of these at the same time? It seems like too much!
I shelved Jump In in favor of written narrations along with BW ideas and editing process. My ds didn’t care for Jump In, not sure why at the moment. I don’t think I’d use both writing programs, but that’s just me. And, SW is for spelling/dictation, which we are using along with narrations, so that one is a keeper.
How old is your child Wings2fly? I think I would alternate programs so that they are not doing all of the above at the same time. For instance you could complete a lesson from Jump In one week and assign written narrations for the following week. You could alternate grammar with dictation as well. That makes it seem more doable.
I alternated grammar with other subjects. We didn’t use a writing program until very recently and we just stopped written narrations and skimmed over the program by using it daily for a couple of months. We’ve now come back to written narrations in an essay format. I always ask my daughter and get her input on how she would like to approach a particular subject. You might ask your child what he/she thinks about the matter.
My oldest is 12 & will be grade 7. He did written narrations twice each week for science and history this year. But I am getting one or two sentences. We used Queen Language Lessons for the Secondary Child. I started asking him to give me at least half a page for creative writing lessons after the picture studies. He first wrote “blah blah blah…” until halfway. I sent him back with a big eraser. Then I got a character name with seven middle names (to fill in the lines). At least that was a little creative. We discussed the 5 senses and the who,what,where,when,why,how. But he still did not write these. I get nice, lengthy detailed oral narrations though.
We used Spelling Wisdom 1 for dictation. I plan to continue to SW 2, and Using Language Well, hoping that is enough grammar. I am not sure what else to use for grammar.
I really got Bravewriter The Writer’s Jungle with my 9 yo dd in mind because she loves to write and wants to be an author. But I figured he could participate with it too.
Thanks for your help.
Since you said his oral narrations are good, at some point can you allow him to speak his narration into say a Smartphone that will type it for him?
If your concern is that he works on handwriting, then you could have him copy the narration in his own handwriting from the Smartphone narration. My son uses voice to text or whatever it is called, a lot. Just a thought; )
Jump In for two years and written narrations/Bravewriter in between chapters is what we’ll try. Thanks Melanie.
Glad I could be of help Wings2fly. 🙂
It sounds like narration isn’t the problem but writing. I always let my kids type their narrations. Their narrations become magically longer when they are allowed to type.
I have my daughter write by hand for other subjects but not writing intensive ones.
Boys (generalization here) especially seem to detest the physical act of writing and will be much more verbose when allowed to type their narrations.
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