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IEW Fix it Grammar: How levels progress? What I did wrong & a RANT!!!!! 😜
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2024
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I've used Fix It Grammar before, but never with more than one child, and never across so many levels. This homeschool mom learned a few things this year! I didn't know these things, but you should!
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introducing myself & our homeschool mascot! 🐶
00:38 Why do I have so many levels of Fix It Grammar? I messed up!
02: 40 How "spiral" IS Fix It Grammar?
04:47 How can you use Fix It Grammar with multiple kids?
05:51 How quickly does each Fix It Grammar level progress?
(I'll show you Level 1, 2, 3). 08:14 to see Fix It level 2 progression. 09:54 for Fix It level 3
11:10 Scope & Sequence examples of the progression
13:02 My Lessons Learned from using Fix It Grammar with all my kids
(I'll also show you a quick progression of level 5) 13:40 to see Fix It level 5 progression
14:30 Did you know this? I didn't know this and I was an EXCELLENT student!
15:42 My little rant....😜
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Level three did surprise me. My daughter zoomed through the first two and wanted to do the third book. She is getting it but there are huge concepts that I had to break down (including for my own understanding). It does work though. I do daily oral language on a white board. She is telling me oh that is a that/who which clause with a prepositional phrase. I recommend everyone starting at book one no matter what grade the child is in.
ETA and yes. Buy the teacher manual!!!!
I haven’t used the teachers manuals only bc im so familiar bc of CC. But if I hadn’t had all the training, it would be challenging. Homeschooling in general has taught me how much I was never taught. And that was before public education dramatically changed!!!
@@OurHOMEschoolPlan right! I thought I was great and wouldn’t need the teacher’s manual. I never had to mark so much in my writing so I was glad I had it there. I have learned so much about history and even how to add and subtract in my head. I can’t believe how dumb I was when I graduated college.
Phew 😅 thanks for the heads up on the progression! This has NEVER been explained to me before and I’ve never thought to compare the levels. This was extremely helpful and I’m super grateful that I started at the beginning. My kids will have incredibly better grammar by HS than I did as a college graduate 🎉.
You’re so welcome!!! Starting from the beginning is definitely the ideal!
Methinks not even Andrew Puweda can explain Fix-It better! 😁 You have done a fabulous job comparing and contrasting all the levels. Excellent video.
Oh wow!!!! I am completely flattered!!!! Thank you!!! 😘
Thanks for clearing this up. I have my 9th grader in book 3 and was worried I placed her too low. Now after watching I know if it doesn’t go well, it’s fine to move her down a level.
Absolutely!! Do not worry about it!
I relate to so much of what you said at the end. Grammar mistakes in written and oral communication seem to be commonplace now. Even in formal or academic contexts.
One of my pet peeves is when people write "would of". It trait shows that students are not being taught grammar very well in public schools anymore. The errors are so common and are often written how they sound.
Another one I hear often, and actually heard a newscaster say last night is, "Whenever I was at the gas station..." to reference a single occurrence, not a recurring one. I hear it everywhere.
When my son was in public school, in the "best" district where we lived, he was constantly being sent home with worksheets that contained grammar and spelling errors. I complained every time.
Several years ago, I knew several students going through teaching programs at university and what I learned is that the students going through teaching programs are often no longer educated to be masters in the content. There is a heavy focus on classroom management and DEI. It is typical for a teacher to learn the curriculum a summer before teaching and that often includes learning the content. It wasn't always that way.
I've noticed an awful lot of older folks say "would of" and "I seen." It's not just the whippersnappers. However, I do agree that it really is quite sad what passes for education these days.
It’s very sad….Remember how Laura Ingalls Wilder needed to take a test in order to become a teacher? And she had to know all the things…..
@OurHOMEschoolPlan Yes! I taught my son how to read, even though he went to preschool and public school (I was a single mom and started my undergrad at 31 so I didn't hear much choice). In Kindergarten, they were using the triple curing and whole language approach (lol at the first letter, look at the picture and guess) and I made a big stink about it because literacy has always been a special interest of mine and I couldn't believe I was seeing this in the schools. I took his school readers and folded the pictures over and highlighted the photograms. All of the teachers told me I was behind on the Science, but the school was just following the Fountaa & Pinnel curriculum. No one could cite any actual journal articles.
I will say that, luckily, speech-language pathology programs at university never did fall victim to the whole language scam. In fact, speech therapists actually have more expertise in literacy.
It's all so sad.
I love little house on the prairie haha@@OurHOMEschoolPlan
I started with my 11 year old in level 3 and my 7 year old in level 1, but soon found it was too much for my younger student and took my older student down to level 1. It's I nice pace for her and the repetition seems about right for her.
Oh yeah! That would be a lot for a 7 year to comprehend. It’s about right for my 10, almost eleven year old. I’d definitely not start Fix It until 4th grade.
We started at nose tree years ago and now he's in 10th and doing Frog Prince. He has loved it from day 1! I hated grammar growing up and did Abeka in my private high school years. I learned WAY more through FIG and highly recommend it to families that have kids in public and private schools as a supplement. I learned thing I never remembered or may never had been taught and I'm so thankful for FIG. If you are a parent like me that didn't like grammar, you will appreciate this course!! Thanks again Rachel, for this great review. I love their updates to the curriculum too. We always go through the review and intro details for each week, and I have him highlight things but he doesn't want me to ever change from FIG.
Interesting about Abeka bc I’ve always heard it was strong in LA. But I think the approach in which IEW teaches (easy+1) is why it’s seems so much easier to retain! 💕
@@OurHOMEschoolPlan I wholeheartedly agree that IeW is the best on the market. I think it works for anyone in my opinion. I’ve learned so much 😂😂😂 and my teen son loves it. He does the whole week in one day. 😁
@@simplefaithanddaisies wow!!! That’s awesome and totally doable if you know what you’re going to write!
I just started my daughter on this at the beginning of 9th, and opted to start with level 1. She knew some basics, but i wanted her to feel really confident and not overwhelmed. We've finished the year and it was a wonderful success. Since the last 10 weeks or so are all review of what was taught in previous weeks, and no new concepts are introduced, I think a person could begin book 2 at that point if they wanted to speed things up a bit. However, I think i will be perfectly happy if my daughter gets through level 4. That is a very sufficient working knowledge of the subject in my estimation. Levels 5 and 6 are very advanced.
Yes!!! Fantastic advice!! I think level 2 would work as well to start for most older students!
@@OurHOMEschoolPlan I agree! However, my daughter's ADHD causes her to shut down when she's overwhelmed, and though we are working on that, I didn't want grammar to be the area where I was spending time helping her cope. 😉 Incidentally, she really likes this program and does it first thing everyday. I considered skipping up to level 3 next year, but then decided not to mess with success.
@@elonas9487 ❤️ I don’t think it ever hurts to allow them to build confidence with easier work when we know where the end game is going! That was my thinking with my 8th grader this year also with the IEW writing! I had her do the curriculum geared to 3-5 grades. The same concepts were taught. Just easier source material and a bit slower. 😉 and she did great and even started being more independent which was the main goal!!
I'm so glad your video popped up on my feed! I bought my soon-to-be 6th grader level 3 because he's been practicing grammar and parts of speech all year. I was on the fence when I did it, but now I know level 3 is going to stress him out! We're also starting IEW Structure and Style next year, so I think we're going to start at level 1 now. Thank you so much for this comparison!
Yah!! You’re welcome!! It never hurts to start from the beginning and he’ll eventually get to level 3 anyway!! 😉
You're not alone!!😅
I figured!!!! 😂😂😂
Very informative, thank you! We don’t use Fix-it, but now I can see how we could use it if we ever change grammar programs.
Glad it was helpful!
This was so helpful! Thank you! I actually thought the level of the books were matched up with grades. 🤦🏽♀️Whew!
What I have noticed the most with predominant influencers is the use of or the misuse of too and to or a lot as alot. This drives me crazy!
Glad it was helpful! Lol!!! To and too is covered in book 1!!! lol! Maybe some adults should take the course? 🤪
Oh man!!! If your child were doing level 5 in 5th grade, they’d be a superstar!!!!!
Your rant makes me laugh. I have so many typos in my responses. I knew I had horrible grammar during my junior year SAT exams and when an English teacher from Asia sighed when he was trying to help me. Public schools and colleges suck. My oldest brother went to baptist school and they had kids doing grammar in kindergarten.
It’s so sad. When I was in college, my English professor even said that grammar was only for the purposes of making sure the receiver understood your message. So he was pretty liberal on grammar. But there’s so much more to it…. I don’t fault people for typos. But you can tell a typo from an uneducated use. 😳 and even then….if it’s a common misuse….ok. But there are some pretty bad communicators coming out of college these days.
@@OurHOMEschoolPlanI fast type on my phone and have kids yelling at me. Today they are fighting over who gets to watch our caterpillars emerge to butterflies. My grammar and typing is not great on UA-cam because of that but I am glad that my point comes across. When I proofread my husband’s schoolwork I am more like a fix it grammar nazi. He gets upset and I asked him if he wants help still. Haha
@@OurHOMEschoolPlanoh my goodness, yes! I had a paper that I did early on in college (and I had private school abeka and bob jones, etc. with diagraming sentences and all of it) and I received a failing grade. It was done with everything I had learned. I was allowed to do it again, so I did and I kind of just did whatever and threw out all the rules and then received an A. I was so very confused.
@@user-nq1vg2vi3einteresting…I feel like college is overrated when they dumb you down like that.
@@sarahe7515 totally!
Thank you SO much for this!!
I've been using Fix It grammar with my oldest for two years now. She started in level 1 but honestly I did not know much about this curriculum. I just knew it was short & effective and I needed something short & effective for her to add in to her CC curriculum since we don't do Latin. It has been a great fit for her and takes no time at all to do each day. She checks herself after she corrects the sentence. (I can trust her to do this.) But I was super happy to learn more about the scope & sequence of this curriculum and how each level progresses. I am not sure we will go past level 3. I had heard it gets VERY complex the higher you go, so I was thinking I'd have her repeat lower levels after completing up to level 3 or 4.
But yes, I agree with you! I want my kids using and speaking correct grammar! It is very important to me as well (which is why I added Fix it to my daughter's CC load).
My younger daughter is using EIW for grammar but eventually I want her to do Fix It as well.
Good plan!!! 😉
Thanks for the advice. I was considering skipping book three since we did Easy Grammar this year but now we might just level down like you said ❤.
Yes!! Don’t skip level 3 if you’ve never done IEW before! 😉
Thank you so much for this video!!! I’m a grandmother starting HS with a Grade 4 in August. I really have no idea which books to use for any subjects. I’m deeply concerned about math. Again, your video was much appreciated ♥️
I’m so glad I can help!!!
What are your concerns about math? Just where to start?
Thanks, Rachel! It helps to see the comparison of level 1 and level 2 side-by-side. I've always used this wrong! LOL!
Oh no!!! 😬 how have you used it???
@@OurHOMEschoolPlan Just "trying" to pick levels I think they should be at instead of just starting with Level 1. I'm actually trying Michael Clay Thompson's Grammar Voyage with my daughter in the fall because grammar just isn't sticking with her, and she'll be in 9th grade. It is formatted SO SIMILAR to Fix It Grammar. We've never made it past 4 lessons in Fix It, so we shall see how MCT goes over for her. In 9th grade, I need to find a way for her to remember basic grammar. I'm not asking her to remember GERUNDS or anything - LOL.
@@homeschoolteenswithjenny you made the same mistake I did!! I guess if your new curriculum doesn’t work, you could just start with fix it level 1! Since she’s only 9th grade, even if you only got through book 3, that would be a solid grammar education!
Thank you much for the information, I really appreciate it. 😊
You’re welcome!! I’m glad it’s helpful!
Thanks for this. My eldest (9yo) is doing level 2 at the moment. It’s good to know that level 3 might need more support.
You got this! Level 2 for a 9 year old is WONDERFUL!! He’s doing great!!
I wish they would combine IEW's writing themes with fix it grammar or have different options for levels. My 5th grader is between level 4&5 and he has zero interest in The Nose Tree or Town Mouse and Country Mouse. I have no problems starting him at level 1 but I LOVE their "Themed Writing" options.
That’s a good idea!!
Truth be told, I pay very little attention to the actual story. We’re so busy editing the sentences….
The OLD style of Fix It, you actually write each sentence in a separate notebook so you had a complete story in the end. Now you write each sentence on each page. So it’s not exactly the same “complete story” in the end.
Thank you for making this video! I have a 16yo daughter. She hates to read and write, so I have been slow at introducing anything grammar related. We are currently finishing up a year of Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind. She hates it. However, I am thinking of continuing it another year, just at a slower pace with Fix-It Grammar mixed in for fun. GWTM contains diagramming sentences, which I feel is beneficial.
Personally, I hated English in high school and college. I thought all of it was worthless, unless one was aiming to be a writer or an English teacher! My view has changed as I have gotten older. Funny how that happens. My family moved every year until I was in the 5th grade. My motto was, 'Fake it till you make it'. But it caught up to me in the 7th grade. I had an English teacher that did not teach. She told you what to do in the book and left you to it. I came home crying to my mother that I was going to fail. She got me a tutor. For the next two years, we worked together in the school library. I still don't know half the things I should. I am learning alongside my daughter.
I was hoping to find someone who had used the Fix It Grammar lower levels on a high schooler. You answered that for me. I think we will start off with Level 1 and go from there. Thank you so much for sharing!
So sad about your own experience.
I’m so glad i could help you with the answers you needed!
Just loved your video. Thank you. It is the most informative review on these books I have yet seen. I have looked for information like this, that actually explains the questions I've had. It looks complex. I am sure you highly recommend the Teachers Guides for a mom like me to check answers with?
I’m so glad!!!! I haven’t watched ALL the Fix It videos out there (lol 😂) but I try ti make videos that have info that I think could be missing!! If it’s a question I would ask if researching, then I figure others would be asking as well! 😉
Yea on the teachers manual!!! If you are not familiar with IEW and how they teach grammar, I’d get a manual. There were several times I almost grabbed it until I figured out what they were wanting. When my son was attempting the level 5….i was DEFINITELY using the manual!! So it’s doesn’t hurt at all to have it!!!
@@OurHOMEschoolPlan Thanks so much!
On the 'are you the only one' at the end of your video… No! 😂I was also a straight A student in SA, but I have come to see as a hs mom, just how weak my education was. I have a lot of refined grammar to learn, and I am very keen to learn it with my children. I also see young adults who believe they are quite smart, and they know even less than me... and that is saying something! 😅 Thank you again, enjoy 🌻
No problem! 😉
Thanks for the info!
You’re welcome!!!!☺️
We just did the lesson where we had to as a preposition and to as an infinitive in the same sentence in level three. I would be as lost as a goose had I not had several years of Essentials. I didn’t learn a darn thing in school and I never diagramed a sentence in my life until I taught my own kids and went through Essentials. In fact, I recently seen a Facebook post I made in 2012 and it was physically painful for me to read. 🙈
I can relate to this! Yep!
Totally off-topic but Bella is absolutely adorable! My children sometimes watch you with me and they love seeing glimpses of her in the background. They are wondering what breed(s) is she is (I've got a hunch) and how old she is.
OK, back to watching! LOL
Thank you!!! She’s got such a fun personality too!!
She is a teddy bear breed (which can be several breeds). Hers is Bichon Friose and Shih Tzu mix. (Schichon). She’s 5 years old! 🐶 💕
@OurHOMEschoolPlan Teddy Bear (and that exact mix, actually) was my guess! My BFF had one until he passed away eight or so years ago at the ripe old age of seventeen. She now has a Maltese, Shih Tzu, and Poodle mix. They're such great dogs, aren't they 🥰
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@@katie7748 love!!! ❤️ yes, great dogs!! Mine barks a little much, will run off if she gets the chance, distrusts strangers, and she’s a bunny killer (my youngest just caught her the other day killing a baby bunny. My daughter thought she took her squeaky toy outside and was mortified at what she saw. 😁) , but other than that she has a super fun personality!! She makes us laugh! 😂 is your friends dog a barker?? We used to have a Lhasa Apso til she died. She was kind of a barker too. But she didn’t have any of the other personality issues of my current dog. But she also wasn’t quite as funny. And she’s so stinking cute!!!! 💕❤️💕
You’re not alone 😂
Thank you!! 😂
My 4th grader on IEP for Speech and Reading Remediation is finishing up Nose Tree. I am planning to have her continue to Level 2 next year. I want her sister in 7th grade next year do Structure and Style 1.
Great plan!!! Glad it’s working for you! 👍🏻
Thank you for the videos, so for this curriculum, do you just use the fix-it books or do you have other things that go with it as far as riding and stuff too or do you just buy the fix-it books?
This is just grammar. I also use the IEW writing curriculum, WHICH IS AWESOME! I have a few videos about that explaining it if you aren’t sure how it works. But it’s an effective and thorough writing curriculum that goes thorough the mechanics of writing , not just the creative aspect.
Here is my IEW playlist that has every video I’ve made about anything IEW. The writing curriculums are explained in a few videos. ua-cam.com/play/PLSGIl3wBXjD8YgTu57dP6ds_9l4BNBxf3.html&si=ux24WuVSHcvuJ6dz
So helpful thank you! Is the glossary pages in the back that explains the grammer the same for all the levels? We have level one so far.
I just looked at book 1 and book 3 and I didn’t see any glossary of terms.
I honestly wonder why any student who isn't an English major would need to go any further than Book 1. I'm one of those weirdos, though, who thinks 90% of what we teach in modern public high schools is completely pointless to real life. I was always an excellent writer in both high school and college, and it's ironic because I couldn't have told you (until I started homeschooling my own children) anything other than a noun is a person, place, or thing. I feel like it's one of those things that just comes naturally or doesn't.
You probably could get by ok with book 1. If you’re going to learn another language, it’s hard to translate if you don’t understand all the parts of speech and sentence structure. Also…it improves your reading level. My dad wrote a book. And my own reading level made it hard for me to comprehend. Yikes. Sometimes people write at higher levels. 😁
My biggest reason for teaching up through at least level 4 is comma usage! It is so hard to explain proper comma usage without having the vocabulary and understanding of clauses. I am a professional writer and have always operated very intuitively; I was never explicitly taught most of what is in these books. Unfortunately, that meant I couldn't teach it very well to my daughter, and when an editor occasionally explained something using these terms I sometimes felt like an idiot. I think that having a working understanding of the vocabulary of grammar is very useful in helping us to understand sentence structure more deeply. However, I don't think that kids younger than 12 or 13 need to know much beyond the basic parts of speech. It's just too conceptual.
My biggest motivation for going further than level 1 is, really, so my kids can understand the Bible better. When you get into questions on various topics, a lot of comprehension is dependent on a proper understanding of grammar and sentence structure. My kids are just beginning and this level will not apply to them for many years. In spite of that, thank you for posting this; this video is very encouraging to keep going with IEW. I found out about IEW this year, while my first is in 1st grade. And their approach to writing letters has already helped us immensely by helping to clear up b/d confusion.
@@elonas9487 that’s a very interesting perspective!! Thank you!!
@@SnuggieSaregreat-sk1lz yah!!! IEW is a fantastic program!! That’s why I keep going back to it!
I totally agree with you on Bible comprehension. I thought of that after I had already responded. But there Srenso many complex sentences written in the Bible. Understanding language actually helps with interpretation! I remember thinking this often as we were learning how to diagramm complex sentences in CC. I’d be reading in one of Paul’s epistles and 1 sentence will be going on over 4 verses! And on the middle of the sentence is a “so that.” That kind of conjunction makes you think, “what is that ‘so that’s referring to!’ It’s not always as clear to figure out if your knowledge of grammar is only at 3rd-4th grade level! 😉 (I wish I could think of a specific example off the top of my head. Maybe when I run across one, I’ll have to make a video about it. Why grammar matters! lol! 😂)
Some marketers actually make spelling/grammar mistakes on purpose to get more engagement and eyes on their marketing. For everyone that walks right by, someone will engage with it and drive more traffic and potentially more sales. Weird tactic, but I have heard several people mention it!
Yikes!!!! I don’t think it gives a good impression!
Could you use only the teacher Manuel if you did the work on a white board? Or would you still need both?
Hmmmm…. You COULD do that if you write everything on a white board. But the edited sentence in the teachers manual (once you get to level 2 and especially level 3) has A LOT of editing marks to filter through to find your original incorrect sentences. But you could do it if you wanted to. Not only would you have to write the sentence, but also the list of things to correct. And you’d also have to go over all the lessons with your kid (the info at the beginning of each week.. so you’d be sharing a book to look at. And then the period review worksheets…..you’d either have to forego those or write it all out as well.
"Tom and I's"! Right?! I hear that all the time from otherwise smart and educated people! 🤦 Thanks for this video. It was very informative!
Should we start correcting people’s grammar? 😂You’re welcome! ☺️
Argh! So-and-so and I's is a colossal pet peeve of mine!!
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My 6th grader has been using Fix It since 3rd grade and does great with it. That being said, I'm considering having him repeat Book 3 next year for 7th grade just because he started to make more repeated mistakes toward the end of it and I want to make sure he's really grasping the info before we move on to Book 4. Then again, it is spiral, and those concepts will be reviewed in Book 4. Could I get your opinion?
The end of book three is also review. So if the mistakes are still happening on a regular basis, maybe repeating book 3 isn’t a bad idea. Then they can be reinforced to mastery! 😉 there’s still plenty of time to get through all the Fix It books and if you can eventually get to level 6, your child’s grammar knowledge will be superior to most people!! 😉
@OurHOMEschoolPlan thank you! Yes, I'm aiming for mastery, even at the younger levels. Things certainly don't get easier as you go, especially if you don't have a strong foundation. It hadn't even occurred to me that the end of the book is review, so thanks for pointing that out. I think you just made up my mind - we will do Robin Hood again.
@@jessicalantz4428 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼 glad I can help!!
Is it necessary to do any other grammar than just fix it grammar?
🤔 that’s a great question. I think so. Especially if your student is also writing and you’re helping edit their writing for further reinforcement.
Fix It is so incremental and building upon itself, its simplicity is deceiving. It’s simple. But it’s effective.
Have you done good and beautiful as well, I can’t remember? And do you have a comparison for grammar and how it progresses?
Yes we’ve done a few of TGATB years. Thats hard to answer. TGATB progresses very differently. I’d have to say that IEW is more step by step with each lesson (easy + 1) . TGATB doesn’t feels as incremental. Maybe even a little more all over the place, if that makes sense. But i definitely am not trying to knock TGATB. They just teach very differently.
@@OurHOMEschoolPlan that’s what we used this year. And in some ways I like it. I like that you get art and geography, but the all over kind of gets me, I think I know what you are talking about. Today we are writing, next day we are diagraming next day spelling. I dunno. I feel like there is no mastery mixed into the spiral. It is short lessons. They are fairly simple mostly. I like how colorful it is. But I keep wondering if I should be doing iew structure and style and fix it. Sometimes I feel like we are moving forward really slowly and I am almost board. Sometimes i feel like huh, did we miss something. I have a struggling speller so I started all about spelling on top of it. I like the idea of sentence diagraming but my understanding is iew doesn’t do that at all. Is that correct? The speller is younger and I have trouble with everything writing with him. If I dictate a sentence, he is almost in tears, if I have him do a “finish this sentence the way you would want it too finish” same problem. Then I have a total workbook kid. He does all the workbook things no problem he sometimes wants to do extra workbook things. And my oldest is adhd and is a do the absolute bare minimal or has an assignment that says answer this question from this reading and he answers another question entirely, that may be along the same subject but not at all what it asked. 🙄 or we have said you have to write this way with indentation but then he forgets to separate the paragraphs so you try to get him to write again and he separates the paragraphs but then. He doesn’t indent. Opinions? Do any of these things sound like problems you have had to work through and did one work better for something than the other? Also, I kind of like open and go. Also like a little bit of hands off, thus the reason I never went with something as complex as abeka.
@@user-nq1vg2vi3e yep! All this sounds very familiar to me. I have kids who love workbooks and an ADHD daughter who has similar struggles to what you mentioned. I will say for her, though, at 14 she’s starting to grow out of some of it. ADHD is such a spectrum of difficulty, can’t really compare child with child. But I know for me, some of it is just “getting it” later than the others.
If your child struggles with the grammar and writing concepts and your questioning TGATB, I’d say IEW would be a great systematic approach. It really is easy + 1 so it’s not overwhelming to just start at the beginning. But you’ll be AMAZED at how much your progress. If you want to add in diagramming (bc yes, IEW doesn’t teach that) there are other supplemental books to teach that. Diagramming the scriptures is one (though I’m lot sure it’s the BEST one). But I know there are books to teach that.
I hear all about spelling is great! My struggling speller did great also with “A reason For Spelling”. I have a video about it if you’re interested. But I do hear GREAT things about All About Spelling!!!
Hope that helps!
@@OurHOMEschoolPlan Speaking of, have you done a video specifically on diagramming?
@@katie7748 not specifically. I mentioned diagramming the scriptures in my mid year. I didn’t do much with it. I have thought about doing a video about why grammar matters and some of my thoughts include diagramming! 😂 we’ll see what happens.