Name: Spreading the Feast Gathering
Start: 2025-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-07-12T23:59:59-05:00
Location: LaGrange, KY

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January 17, 2016 at 7:31 pm
Rebekah
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I see now that under the grades studies there are specific things to work on for written narration. I hadn’t noticed it before, maybe because I hadn’t had a reason to look at the upper years. I do wish the suggestions had more detail then just work on story, poetry, and letter forms.
Is there more specific, how to type info in the SCM hearing, speaking, reading and writing book? Or is that book more on why CM LA works? I’m looking more for the nitty gritty, daily how to teach this type info.
January 17, 2016 at 9:19 pm
Rebekah
Participant
Englsh lessons through literature does look great. Maybe it would give me the ease of an all in one, the ease of the writing lessons already laid out for me, but in just three days a week lessons. Which would leave two days free for written narrations.
January 19, 2016 at 4:50 pm
Rebekah
Participant
I got out the manuals for the next couple LLATL levels and sat down and really read them. They’re ok. But the more I read, the more busy work I saw, and the more I saw stuff being taught much earlier than CM is recommends.
So then I sat down with the ELTL samples. I do like this program. But again I see grammar being started a couple years earlier than CM recommends. I do feel like I’d like to use it, but maybe a couple years behind grade level. It’s tempting to use because the copy work is available in the vertical cursive hand I taught my son (he can copy something in print into cursive, but the results are not as nice looking).
I’m also debating whether it would be better for me to hold off on starting it till middle school (6th) and for now just use spelling you see for copy work/dictation (though then he loses the cursive aspect) and focus on the transition to written narration??? Ugg. Why does this have to be so hard?
Both ways have pros and cons. I just can’t seem to figure out which one out weighs the other. Maybe a list would help?
ELTL
pros: cursive copy work, three day schedule
cons: have to buy it, what level do I use?
SUS
pros: I already own it, easy to use just four days a week to allow a day for written narration
cons: it’s in print, not cursive

January 19, 2016 at 6:39 pm
sarah2106
Participant
The women who wrote ELTL has a copy work only option. I really like that it has all the type options. We start cursive early so finding copy work for early readers in cursive was tough. She had Elson Readers options as well as a few others.

I tried ELTL, was not a fit for us though a great program, but I really like the copy work options she has!
January 19, 2016 at 6:45 pm
sarah2106
Participant
Oh and she is great at answering questions if you email her. I would likely start a grade back or wait. I tried level 3 with 3rd grade and while she could do the work, I think it would have been better if we had waited another year.