Writing with Ease

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  • June 26, 2009 at 8:59 pm
    csmamma
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    Anyone use “Writing with Ease” by Susan Wise Bauer? It looks very CM. I’d love to hear your opinion. 😉

    Thanks,

    Heather

    June 27, 2009 at 3:07 am
    caroline4kids
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    I bought it too, but I returned it once I actually started implementing it. I even bought the workbook to look at. It all seemed very CM at first, but it was completely different from the CM dictation/narration methods I had been using. I was used to, and liked, my children giving detailed narrations and interjecting their opinions and feelings into the mix, but WWE focuses on short, concise narrations and really long memory stints for dictation which seemed to be more like tricks to be performed than true dictation. The warm, fuzzy, CM moments were not present as I trudged through it. We only lasted a week before I knew that the “old” way derived from Charlotte’s writings was a better match for us.

    I’m sure there are well researched benefits to it all, but it was just too different for me to feel comfortable going whole hog, so to speak.:)

    I think if you read the text you can get a good idea if it will work well for you. I know many love it, but they are mostly in the classical camp.

    June 30, 2009 at 4:34 pm
    TheCountryMouse
    Member

    I’ve seen it – it’s very Classical, wouldn’t say it was CM at all, really.

    June 30, 2009 at 8:28 pm
    csmamma
    Participant

    Rainbow Resource advertised it as CM. I assumed with the 4 year scope & sequence of copywork, oral narration, dictation, then on to written narration, that it was of CM by nature. I’m not sure what puts something in the catogory of classical, but thanks for filling me in. Caroline, thank you for sharing your experience. I would hate to see the warm fuzzy moments no longer present. DH and I will prayerfully consider this.

    Blessings to you all!

    Heather

    June 30, 2009 at 9:50 pm
    teachermom
    Participant

    We used most of WWE1 last year. I would call the WWE Narration “Summarization”….so if you’d like to work on that skill, you might find it helpful, though not CM for young ones (if ever….I’ve only been reading the early years works). That’s really why I dropped using it. I think we can work on that type of skill later if it doesn’t come naturally.

    This year I am using the Classical Writing Primer and so far I really like it (we are using the “Spring” Primer now since we school year round and it was recently released). It is not exactly CM either, but it has many CM elements. (It could be even more in line with CM for a 4th grader than someone younger though….)

    http://home.att.net/~classicalwriting/Primer.htm (fwiw)

    -Kim

    Having fun learning alongside dd age 7

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