And when I realized that there was a different way to learn English and Language Arts, outside of all of those worksheets and boring writing prompts, I jumped on board. But, I can’t remember learning any of it. I tested out of the writing and rhetoric class that was required at my college, so I must have learned something at some point. Now, I’m sure that I took grammar in school. In fact, I only remember grammar in the context of a foreign language. I do not remember any grammar from my school days. How much should you push writing? Should you always edit your child’s work? What about grammar and spelling? What the heck is a past participle anyway? A Different Approach to English and Language Arts Books are my favorite hobby, and that is evidenced by the fact that we use a literature-based approach to homeschooling.īut, English and Language Arts is such a large category of subjects, how do you make sure that you are teaching everything that needs to be taught? Honestly, it took me a while to feel comfortable with this. That would be about the point we stopped and switched to WriteShop.English and Language Arts are probably my favorite subjects to teach. What should have been only a paragraph turned into an entire notebook and both girls writing wanting to write their own books based on the ideas they were getting.
We completely stopped and I pulled out some writing prompt cards from WriteShop that winter, and my girls went nuts. While I understand the concept behind the program and have sat in on sessions with Jessie Wise and her daughter (and heard the arguement for not getting into creative writing until they are older and have a solid writing base), I couldn’t ignore what it did to my girls. They hated it because there wasn’t any creative element to what they were doing. We initially started out with this program with our girls many years ago and I loved First Language Lessons for the first 2 years – but after that we ran into some issues, mainly our girls completely stopped writing. Before you do, I encourage you to read this Writing With Ease review. Are you thinking about purchasing and using Writing With Ease for your child(ren).
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