starting Spelling Wisdom 2 without fnishing book 1

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  • caedmyn
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    My 4th grader is on lesson 96 of Spelling Wisdom 1. I would like to begin next year with Spelling Wisdom 2 and skip the rest of SW 1. Will she be missing out on something if I do this? This is primarily because she needs to practice the passage as copywork first–she been doing that all this year, and her spelling has improved immensely, but I tried having her just study the passage and words she thought she might have trouble spelling (for 2 days), and her spelling and attention to detail such as punctuation deteriorated markedly, so she’s not ready for that. Her handwriting speed is super slow, about 4-5 words per minute, and the passages she’s doing now average 6 lines long and are rapidly getting longer. So if she spends 10 minutes a day doing a passage as copywork, she doesn’t get more than 3 lines of it written. Her typing speed is somewhat faster, 9-10 words per minute, but she’s not fluent enough/coordinated enough at this point to look at the book and type any faster than her handwriting speed. We school four days a week, and have been using SW 3 days a week (1 passage per week). It would be much simpler to just have shorter passages again next year.

    caedmyn
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    bump

    Tristan
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    Why not break up the current ones and do half one week and half another?  Honestly, I don’t think it matters if you move to the second book, but I didn’t write the curriculum so I don’t know for sure!  My goal has always been to do it slow and steady and not plan to finish all the levels, just get where we get.

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