Writing With Ease

We are using it and so far, it is working well with both my children. We are first year home schooling, so my children have never done any of these skills in public school. I like it because it has passages from classic books to read to them and have them narrate back. Since I’m just getting to know what my children are interested in etc. It allows me to give them a snippet of a novel and if I see real interest in the book, then I will plan it as a read aloud. I can tell you that we hit wizard of Oz and both kids’ eyes glazed over. We will not be reading that book here for sure. So for right now, it is working well and I will probably use again next year, but I am looking into the EIW as they get older for writing. Of course it doesn’t hurt that I have an EIW expert in my local HS support group.   HTH      Just as a side note, when I talked to my kids about needing to tweak anything that wasn’t working for them, I was told that my son loves HWOT and narration, he is 7, and his narration is better than what I could do. He gets so animated and into telling me about the passage that I read to him that he is almost as entertaining as tv! I’m thinking drama classes are in his future.    My daughter said her favorite thing is the dictation. She likes the challenge of memorizing the sentence and then writing it correctly. She even looks up any words she doesn’t know how to spel yet. She is 8. So while it may or may not be as good as the CM, it is CM friendly. I am trying to follow more of a CM approach and I think slowly we will get there. I just found out about CM a few months ago, but I am really drawn to it.