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Upper Elementary Novel study guides
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Is anyone familiar with or use novel study guides for elementary grades? Perhaps it’s not exactly CM, but I thought a guide might give me some direction. I’m thinking more for my grade 6 student who wants/needs to be much more independent next year. I’ve looked a bit at Progeny Press or Total Language Plus. If you do use them, how have you used them? Do you have a particular publisher to recommend?
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I started this year with Total Language plus for my 6th grader and ended up putting them aside because I did not think the guides were laid out very well. Instead of having the work for each lesson in order you have to keep flipping back and forth between pages and it was very confusing. The book actually incorporates reading, writing, spelling , vocabulary and grammar. That being said I used their American authors studies for my Senior for his Language arts and they were laid out very nice. Of course he worked very independently. I would love to hear what others think about it.
I have use the Progeny Press guides for this age. They are very independent. I have looked at TLP and it seemed more teacher involved to me. It also seemed like you were spending all your time on the vocabulary words and learning to spell them.
I know that reading and narration with a bit of discussion could probably accomplish what the PP guides do, but they are nice to cover things with a minimum of teacher thought and work.
Has anyone looked at teaching the classics by Andy Andrews? I was on their site today. They have Lit guides also but it looks like you can use their question and answers with all the books you read and not so much emphasis on spelling and grammar. More just literature. I have not used this just wondering about it. If others might look at it as well and altogether get a consensus on what everyone thought. Unless others have used it…..is their already a thread on it?
I like the independence of the Progeny Press intereactive guides. I’ve been looking for ways to help my older (going into 6th) be more independent in as much as possible because my younger ds (ADHD) tends to cause our lessons to drag out longer than I’d like. If we could do Mod 1 together but for the independent reading, continue with our FLying Creatures, have a daily read-aloud and then one time a week for Fine Arts that would be fabulous. My older one works well with a check list, though I have to stay on top of him for quality. I also usually have to work with him for math and over see copy work/dictation. The following year I expect him to do science more independently as well, but we are taking it a bit at a time. I work part-time and can only do guided instruction in the afternoons. He is not thrilled with having to wait for me. He’s much happier when he can work on his own and get it done. For that matter, I don’t mind him reading the afternoon history or science lesson earlier in the day as well, and just work together for discussion and labs, or whatever else seems to make sense.
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