It's so interesting what you said about your son's comprehension and ADHD. I homeschooled all my kids but they are all grown now. My daughter always had terrible reading comprehension and I remember using different ways to help her (using the audio books for Apologia Science, having her read short amounts and answer questions as she goes along, etc.) Today I was just with her at the library and she was explaining how she rarely reads books (she does listen to audio books) because it's so hard to focus and she has to re read it more than once and it's not super enjoyable for her. I love that you have adapted things for your son to help him in that area. I also wanted to give you ( or any other moms with kids with similar issues) encouragement that our kids can and will succeed in life in spite of this challenge. My daughter has obtained her Master's Degree in Computer Science and works for Google. The reading comprehension was not an issue in college or on the job. They learn how to do things that work for them. Love your videos!

I love what you said about skipping the book studies. They do kill the joy of reading for (my opinion - no idea if this is fact) most students. :) So much can be learned still by just reading aloud to our kids - even highschoolers! I plan to keep reading aloud to my highschooler this coming year. All of that content can be accomplished by just talking to our kids about the books naturally as we are reading aloud to them.

Wait! 10th grade?! The time just keeps moving. I know you’ll cherish the moments. I appreciate you sharing! 🌻

I agree! Around middle school, things started to take a turn towards “dry”.

Im so glad TGATB worked for y'all last year! ❤

I agree. Those are beautifully illustrated ❤

Thanks for sharing! I’m excited to check all these out!!

Thanks ❤

Always love seeing how you do high school with your son :)

Hi Ashlea! Stopping in to support your channel. My son is reading Number the Stars right now and is enjoying it. He’s meeting in a zoom book club once a week about it and enjoys that. Love your videos and miss our little chats! ❤Jamie

Excited to follow along your school journey this year. I’m interested in hearing how you like TGTB high school levels

I just love the way you just do things and then move to something else for awhile. So flexible. 😊 I look forward to hearing your high school updates next year to see how TGATB is going.

You're so creative with the prompts in the writer's notebook. Love this idea!! ❤

Love all your ideas! I have one going into high school and am getting a bit nervous about making sure I get together all the pieces she needs! Your video is very helpful.😊❤

Great idea about having him follow along while you read aloud. I’ll have to try that. Comprehension is one of our biggest issues

I’m excited to hear what’s in the highschool materials! I agree with you, there is so much available about the younger levels, but I don’t hear about the older.

I love your ideas, Ashlea! I'm trying to foster more of a love for writing with my 16 year old son. IEW also has a science-based writing curriculum that we have enjoyed, even though it is intended more for younger students.

Even though I watched your 2024-25 Math video, I can NOT believe your son is in 10th grade. Thank you for sharing how you adapted TGTB for your son. Our sons are similar with reading and I may reconsider using TGTB for high school now.

I really like your writer’s notebook! It looks perfect for a boy!! I may use your ideas for my youngest son. Thank you for sharing. We are using All About Reading 2 and All About Spelling 1 for our 8 year old. Our middle three children will use MasterBooks Language Lessons for a Living Education Levels 5, 6, and 9. We will also continue to use Spelling You See C with our youngest son. I’m excited about these choices! We’ve never used MB LLFLE.

Ohhh I didn’t know TGTB had high school levels. I’m glad it worked out for you last year.

My 17 yr old will be using Good and Beautiful high school level 3. My 15 yr old will be doing the LA component of Campfire Curriculums. My 13 yr old will finish level 5 Good and Beautiful and then move on to level 6.

I'm really considering using TGATB for Language Arts for my 10th grade and 8th grade sons, but I'm torn because I saw Masterbooks also has a new high school Language Arts. as well. I really appreciated seeing your choices!

I had written a large response to you on this, but it didn't post so I will try again. Glad to see you have chosen TGTB for 10th grade. My daughter who is also a 9th grader is currently on booklet 3 of HS year 1. She did the 8th grade book studies for the first semester this year. I think TGTB Language Arts high school is a great program and there are many things I really like about it: Good and wholesome literature, art and featured artists, more info on authors, geography, poetry and art. A few things I don't care for are the repetitiveness I have found in the first 3 booklets so far. A couple examples: There is sentence dictation that has the child repeat the same dictations 3 times, I found that to be too much and thought twice was enough. There is also spelling practice and the same sentence is repeated in each booklet, again twice was enough and TGTB could have came up with a new sentence to practice spelling in each booklet. Overall, I like the program so far and my daughter has completed level 6, 7 and 8 so we obviously both like it, but I have been modifying HS year 1 to fit her needs. I do think the insight journal prompts are well chosen and gives good variety for a child to choose a topic they would like to write about. Not sure what schedule you found on Facebook, but one thing I would recommend is allowing your son to do the unit check each week to go with the booklet, like every Friday give him the unit check, because I found it too difficult memorizing the questions asked about the author and artists. The only schedule I saw on the Facebook group said to give the unit check at the end and that didn't work efficiently IMO. I look forward to more of your videos and feedback on the TGTB HS year 1 content. Thank you for your videos!! :)

Something that I didn’t find (either on the website or in the files they email…I can’t remember) is a Unit Check for each booklet. It’s basically a test. I used them to help make a grade for the course. Just a head’s up in case you didn’t see them.

What is the Facebook group where you found the schedule for the curriculum?

I must have missed something 🤔 are you no longer using Gather Round?

I’m sure it is hard to find high school language arts 😅 good job! Im still far away!! 😂