Thanks for watching!

Just a side note. We are new to McGuffy readers and I am thinking this will be our LA curriculum for next year. We are come from a Charlotte Mason-ish/eclectic background. Teaching LA sounds so daunting but this video I’m so thankful for- it gives me hope I can teach it thoroughly and well. Thank you for your work.

I would just go with whichever one fits his reading level best and the handwriting will follow along either way. I do have companion notebooks that also go with both of those books that contain copywork for each lesson (including the cursive ones from the books) as well as print and cursive copywork only. In the copywork I create (present in both options above) I do the model handwriting part in gray and not black so that students can trace if needed. I might start him with tracing two lines and then writing those two lines. The first 10 lessons of the 1st reader are review. I hope that helps!

Thank you that helps a lot!

I don’t have a filled in one for the originals. I just provided a blank one to fill in as you go as a record of what’s been covered.

Of course! Thank you for being here. You can use Alpha Phonics in place of 100 Easy Lessons. You can print that for free from Don Potter's website. I just find 100 Easy Lessons much easier to use for me and for the two sons I have now used it with. The phonics flashcards are helpful because they let the child see the phoneme represented as an isolated grapheme. You can get free ones from Don Potter's website as well. This language arts plan is what I use with my boys from first grade on. You can use the primer to teach phonics of course I just prefer 100 Easy Lessons. It gave more repetition and a script for me to follow. Alpha phonics is similar but doesn't give all the extra reading coaching. I will be doing a video series soon on my copybooks and how I use them with our curriculum. This will be covering the preschool to first grade-ish time frame so I may be more helpful there. Stay tuned. Here's a helpful link for 100 EL. startreading.com/videos-supplementary-material/

@@landofkakiakahomeschool Thank you so kindly for your reply and helping me understand. Also, thank you for other resources to look into as well to check out 🙂. Especially as I anticipate the video you are working on 🙂. Off down the rabbit hole I go now. Thank you again!

Good question. I pulled this table from an article. Although we found the 2nd reader to fit nicely in second grade and we start the 3rd reader in third grade. I'm more into letting them cover the material at their own pace but the table will give you a good idea of where to start if you're switching. 1st Reader (Revised) 1st grade, 2nd grade 2nd Reader (Revised) 3rd grade, 4th grade 3rd Reader (Revised) 5th grade 4th Reader (Revised) 5th grade, 6th grade 5th Reader (Revised) Middle School (7th-9th) 6th Reader (Revised) High school (9th-12th)

I love the questions! They are good ones. Yes, for us it's because RC recommends six days a week, year-round schooling. The curriculum designer thinks that two days off makes it more difficult to restart on Monday and not as much is retained leading to needing to review more and lose a productive day or two each week to this. I tend to agree so we go with that recommendation. I will add that I have turned our sixth day into a mainly catch up or redo day (after church and lunch) for any missed or insufficient work from the week for my older boys mainly but they do still get a reading lesson that day from mom. It's not a full day of school by any means. So yes, you can absolutely take my six day schedule as suggestion but by no means a rule, and change it to suit your family. If you do four or five days instead of six your child will still learn to read and write! I know that most people do not follow my six day schedule and just do five and pick up where they left off on the following Monday and they are all doing just fine.

@@landofkakiakahomeschool thank you so much! I’m now on a mission to understand RC curriculum. Loving all your videos. New subscriber here

@@Kelly_Mae glad you’re here!

I'm actually working on trying to make a more compatible plan for the originals right now. There will be a good amount of overlap. I'll share it as soon as it's done so stay tuned!

@@landofkakiakahomeschool yay! Thanks so much!

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Added that to my list :)

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I don't hold to one lesson per week until around the third reader, rather I stay on a lesson until it is mastered (read smoothly, accurate re-telling and can answer follow up questions, and copied at least once). If a child blasts through the reading in one go I just move on to the next lesson immediately. If it takes two weeks, so be it. Are you referring to the parent guide that was written for the originals published by Mott Media? If so, I have read it but, no, it's not what I base my instruction on.