We love Exploring the World through Story! My daughter studied the curriculum via classes with The Bookish Society this year and will continue with both next year. Highly recommend studying with The Bookish Society as well. Jennie who teaches the class is very knowledgeable and great with the kids.
This is amazing. Thanks for doing this...I have been trying to get an inside look on this curriculum ... and also their literature units over the course of an year...
Are you all still doing IEW? Do you feel like it’s necessary for her writing foundation despite also doing The Writing Revolution during the year and this EWS Writing curriculum over the summer?
We are still doing IEW but will be stopping for summer. I feel like we use them both differently. I may have more to add after we use EWS this summer. But I feel like with TWR we still use it at the sentence level to work on strong sentences. I like that I can use it across the curriculum to strengthen writing regardless of the subject. I like IEW because it's giving her a good foundation on how to organize her thoughts from a different perspective other than mine. Is it overkill doing all of these? Maybe. But this particular kid benefits from repetition and receiving information in multiple ways. Also, I like TWR but I don't like that there's not a clear path written out for me on how to implement it. I'm not sure if any of that made sense or is helpful lol
@@TheMommaLibrarian yes! It does make sense. Seems to me that TWR gives us the principles and then goes to the granular level with instruction at the sentence and paragraph stage so I can see how you’d want IEW to fill gaps TWR doesn’t fill. I’d love to see your end do the year take in how IEW went and what your next IEW plans are for the fall.
@@TheMommaLibrarian Also, I saw on Amazon TWR has a new edition coming out this summer so I am hoping they’ll give more guidance on implementation of their approach.
We won’t finish the current level of IEW this year because we didn’t start it until the spring, so we’ll continue with that next year. If we finish mid-year then I’ll get year 2. Not sure though because she’ll also have writing in Lightning Lit next year so may hold off year 2 until 8th grade!
We love Exploring the World through Story! My daughter studied the curriculum via classes with The Bookish Society this year and will continue with both next year. Highly recommend studying with The Bookish Society as well. Jennie who teaches the class is very knowledgeable and great with the kids.
So cool!
Thanks! I’m looking forward to printing out ours!
I can’t wait to start!
This is amazing. Thanks for doing this...I have been trying to get an inside look on this curriculum ... and also their literature units over the course of an year...
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks so much for sharing. How many lessons are in a week? What level will they be ready for after they finish this program? Thanks again.
4 lessons a week for 6 weeks. Level G.
Are you all still doing IEW? Do you feel like it’s necessary for her writing foundation despite also doing The Writing Revolution during the year and this EWS Writing curriculum over the summer?
We are still doing IEW but will be stopping for summer. I feel like we use them both differently. I may have more to add after we use EWS this summer. But I feel like with TWR we still use it at the sentence level to work on strong sentences. I like that I can use it across the curriculum to strengthen writing regardless of the subject. I like IEW because it's giving her a good foundation on how to organize her thoughts from a different perspective other than mine. Is it overkill doing all of these? Maybe. But this particular kid benefits from repetition and receiving information in multiple ways. Also, I like TWR but I don't like that there's not a clear path written out for me on how to implement it. I'm not sure if any of that made sense or is helpful lol
@@TheMommaLibrarian yes! It does make sense. Seems to me that TWR gives us the principles and then goes to the granular level with instruction at the sentence and paragraph stage so I can see how you’d want IEW to fill gaps TWR doesn’t fill. I’d love to see your end do the year take in how IEW went and what your next IEW plans are for the fall.
@@TheMommaLibrarian Also, I saw on Amazon TWR has a new edition coming out this summer so I am hoping they’ll give more guidance on implementation of their approach.
We won’t finish the current level of IEW this year because we didn’t start it until the spring, so we’ll continue with that next year. If we finish mid-year then I’ll get year 2. Not sure though because she’ll also have writing in Lightning Lit next year so may hold off year 2 until 8th grade!
I’ve already requested that my library purchase it! Lol