I am so thankful that you took the time to review this ❤🙏🏼 I am considering it for next year. I am still not sure about between this one or All Things Fun and Fascinating. I think that one does go over the correction marks. I am just going by a review that another mom made “Journal of a Homeschooler”.

Great honest review! I chose this curriculum and IEW's Fix It! Grammar. The latter has the the editing and symbols you are looking for! I am very excited to start these for my 10yo! I remember, in public school, I was also taught to write the intro first. However, that was not how I actually did my essays. I always ended up doing the paragraphs, the conclusion and finally, the intro! We haven't started this program yet, but I was delighted when you mentioned that part of the course!

Fix-Grammar will teach you the symbols! Fix-It Grammar was very challenging for us but oh my it really taught us the grammar aspect well. I personally learned a ton. Great review we are about to start IEW this year!

In public school, I was taught to write the intro last because we can solidify what we are talking about before trying to introduce it. I found that I often struggled with starting essays but was fine once I started to figure out what I was trying to say.

I love that someone else gets to teach my kids how to write :) I really like the structure for my child who needs more structure.

We are on week 8 of this course and really loving it too. It was nice to hear your thoughts-I too feel like Fix It Grammar is a bit much…we’re going to try to stick it out, but maybe we’ll scrap it too 😅

Thank you for another great review! I'm am looking for a writing program for my rising 3rd grader. To be honest, we have never done any writing curricula. He has enjoyed writing prompts I have given him here and there on topics that he loves and his writing has been great but he is definitely for something structured. Do you recommend this for a child that will be turning 9 at the beginning of 3rd grade or should I wait another year?

Hi Michelle, I feel a little funny posting this in a comment, but wanted to share. I have been looking for a structured writing curriculum and decided to look into IEW after watching your videos (and a few others). I noticed they have lots of Christian content (not really a problem as we identify as progressive Christians), so I decided to look into the founder of the company. I was disturbed to discover he is part of a very traditional and conservative group of Catholics. He has given talks on "neuroscience" and how it is different in boys and girls to defend traditionally held views of gender. He also does not hold a single college degree, though I believe the program's writers do. It felt like such a bummer to find out that such solid program has these dark (in my opinion) roots. This is not at all a judgment on anyone using this program-a good writing program is hard to find, but I know that you also like to research your curriculum choices and the people behind them, so I thought I'd share.

I learned to write topics, then intro, then conclusion. I think the most important part is just to write the topics first because you can't introduce topics that you haven't fleshed out yet, nor can you summarize them.

I teach the editing in the fixer grammar portion. There is an editing sheet in the front of the fixit grammar book. I believe it's the teacher's manual

I do it like that. Topics conclusion then intro. Was not taught this way but it was way easier for me this way to do it. I went to public school where they basically teach u nothing and throw u into it to do it all yourself.

This was really helpful, thank you!

Did you ever do the teacher lessons or do you watch the videos with her in order to understand what to look for? I want something a bit hand off.

Do you need the videos to be able to use the program?

So it's possible to finish to start over the summer and finish it too. I wanted to get this for my 5th grader and do it over the summer.

Thank you