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restyle is never as good as the original!
I am pasting a link to Writing with Ease. If you are interested in this topic and have an early reader who can write their letters this is a great place to start
http://peacehillpress.com/the-complete-writer-writing-with-ease-instructor-text-pdf.htmlI agree with Sonya, writing will be a difficult subject to accelerate. It is possible that Early readers may advance by a year or two purely because their extra years of reading will give them a larger bank of sentences and vocabulary to draw from. I do think that getting them started on reading the classics ( yesterday's classics collection would be my pick) as soon as their reading stamina can handle it. If you want accelerated writing it seems clear to me you need accelerated reading and vocabulary.
Incidentally reading good vocabulary might not be enough. It needs to be internalised and children need to be able to spontaneously use it in their everyday speech before they will pluck it from their memory to use in their writing.
Also it seems to me that spelling needs to take a bit of a back seat for a while. I can see a 6 year old getting very demotivated in their writing if they are forced to correct every incorrectly spelt word in their writing. My children are certainly smart enough to figure out that by choosing the simpler word they know how to spell they will have less work to correct.
this presents a good case for not grading early writing as well as using a lot of copy work and dictation in the early years of writing.
So I am reading Writing with Ease (WWE in the homeschool forums BTW. ) I came across this section in the overview sections
Constant Short Papers
Throughout the high-school years, as he works through the progymnasmata, the student should write three to five one-page papers per week, taking his topics from literature, history, science, and his other high-school courses. Every time
the student has to complete a one-page paper, he has to go through the process of formulating a thesis statement, deciding on a form and a strategy, constructing an outline, and writing from it. This constant repetition is much more valuable than two or three long writing projects undertaken over the course of the year.
I am wondering if maybe the Robinson children ( and perhaps the Calderwald kids) actually did a version of the proggymnasmata loosely. There are a lot of similarities in their learning methods. I wonder if their parents were loosely following the sequence of the proggymnasmata. Has anyone with the discs found any evidence of this? I wonder if they were required to outline their one page of writing ever?
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