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Jump In, IEW or The Power in Your Hands
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Thanks for the prayers, ladies! I’m trying to wrap up the current year and take a big breather before the next.
Your responses have all been very helpful! I can totally see the potential for formulaic writing with IEW, but as Tristan mentioned, this particular child has no idea where to start and gets that paralysis when presented a blank page. Of course I do require narrations. His are short and to the point. However, I have scribed some of them for him and working together, he is able to produce a well composed paragraph. I’m totally still brainstorming here, but your thoughtful posts have helped tremendously 🙂
So sorry for your loss Christy.
I have to say that I also love the idea of Bravewriter and we tried Help for High School, but implementing it made my head hurt. If it was the only thing that I was doing, I think I could delve into it and it would be great, but I am juggling far too many other things to invest that kind of time into one course.
The thing I loved about Power in Your Hands was the ease of implementation.
I’m not sure if anyone noted yet that Jump In is written by the same author as Power in Your Hands.
If you’re still looking for other options, some of you may like the looks of Wordsmith or Lively Art of Writing. Wordsmith seems concise and someone somewhere has put together a pdf for Lively Art of Writing. I think I saw it on the WTM forums.
Jean-Can you tell me a bit more about Help for Highschool and why you found it so difficult to implement? I am debating using it to teach a couple of teen girls this fall. I downloaded the sample and it looked pretty straight forward and was written right to the student.
Honestly, it’s hard for me to pinpoint what exactly I found difficult about it. When I go back now and compare HFHS and PIYH, I think that even the layout of PIYH looks easier to me. There’s larger type, more space on the page, important points are in bold type, assignments are clearly numbered. I found it easier to flip through and find what I was looking for. I have HFHS as a pdf that I copied and spiral-bound and looking through both of them now side-by-side, the layout of PIYH just jumps out at me and makes me feel like I can teach this without a huge amount of advance prep. HFHS is quite wordy and makes me feel like I need to read it through a few times to really get the feel for how to implement.
The PIYH has a teacher’s guide that is pretty small, since most of the teaching is done in the student book. But, the teacher’s guide is very to-the-point. For example, it will say (in essence) “this lesson has 7 assignments, two of which will be 350-500 words.” Yes! Thank you! I didn’t have to wade through a dozen pages to figure that out.
Jean-Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on BW HFHS. After reading your post, I went back and read up more on TPIYH and found that it looks like the better option of the two.
One of her plans stretches it out over 3 years and that would be perfect for us since I still want my daughter to continue with her written narrations as well. When I compare the cost and the length of time that each resource can be used, TPIYH is the clear winner of the two. It also seems to be well written and gets very good reviews whereas I’ve barely found any feedback for BW HFHS. Not to mention the BW products are all downloads and and TPIYH is actually a real book.
Thanks again for the input. 🙂
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