Name: Great Homeschool Conventions (Columbus)
Start: 2025-04-24T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-26T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Columbus, OH

Tagged: Language Arts for 9 year old, Print to Cursive, spelling wisdom, Using Language Well

This topic has 4 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 3 months ago by lnosborn.

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July 27, 2016 at 10:53 pm
Heather
Participant
My son is 9 and we have not started any formal cursive instruction, so I bought Print to Cursive Proverbs to start with him. I also got Using Language Well and Spelling Wisdom 1, and now that I’m looking at it all I’m wondering whether it’s too much ‘Language Arts’ to do at the same time. Any thoughts on how these are supposed to fit into the schedule together?
July 28, 2016 at 10:59 am
HollyS
Participant
I don’t think it’s too much at all. I like to do copywork 3 days per week and dictation twice a week. For example, you could have SW/ULW on Mondays and Thursdays and Print to Cursive Proverbs on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday.
We spend 5-10 minutes on copywork (including the time it takes to gather books and pens) and 10 minutes on dictation. I haven’t used ULW, but looking at the samples, I’d say it will take another 5-10 minutes tops.
July 28, 2016 at 11:24 am
sarah2106
Participant
It depends 🙂
are you going to do SW and ULW twice/week?
Part 1 of SW & ULW uses the passage as transcription/copy work. So that would be two days of copy work.
If you add in print to cursive just make sure not to add in on the same days.
We start cursive in kinder but for my kids once they learned letter formations they went to writing in cursive pretty smoothly
July 28, 2016 at 11:53 am
Heather
Participant
Okay, so that makes sense. Do one OR the other on any given day.
I was thinking a single lesson from SW would take more than one day — maybe a day or two of transcribing the passage and another day to do the dictation.
July 28, 2016 at 11:58 am
lnosborn
Participant
The first half of ULW book 1 is just transcription using the SW passages. Dictation starts in the second half of ULW. It is suggested twice a week and you do a different passage each time, at least for the first half (we haven’t started the second half quite yet).