We're keeping you busy today, Cheryl!
You know some of this background, so I will keep it brief. Winston is in Week 10 of SC1. My daughter is in Week 23 of SCB. I bumped her up to RS1 with him so I could teach them together (which is working well).
Here's the puzzle: she is really ready for FSRA. She knows all her letter sounds, backwards and forwards; she is reading simple words on her own or bringing pages to me and asking; she knows all -- ALL! -- of Winston's sight word flash cards; and her reading comprehension is better than her big brother's. She's ready!
Winston is one dictation exercise and a read-aloud away from being done with FSRA and beginning FSRB. I could start her on FSRA when he is ready to transition. A few concerns:
1) I will have to order Core Skills Phonics K. Should I just go ahead and order the rest of the SC1 consumables she will need? It seems a little silly to pay shipping for just one thing.
2) How do I complete SCB while adding in RS1 and FSRA? Because I want her to finish it! She still loves to color the letter of the week and we are getting a lot of mileage out of Big Thoughts, Richard Scarry, the crafts and the read-alouds from SCB. All my kids also love looking through the RS workbooks (Counting With Numbers, Adventures With Books) and the exercises are definitely beneficial. I sometimes run off a copy for Winston so they can complete them together. So mashing everything together is fine, but that leads to...
3) Will picking up FSRA now make teaching her SC1 a major headache? Because by the time she's done with SCB, finishes FSRA-D and RS1, Winston will be starting Level 2 and she will be doing a sub-version of SC1, with advanced math and phonics -- I suppose I can customize her level then...?
My brain is muddled. Help me make sense of this?
You know some of this background, so I will keep it brief. Winston is in Week 10 of SC1. My daughter is in Week 23 of SCB. I bumped her up to RS1 with him so I could teach them together (which is working well).
Here's the puzzle: she is really ready for FSRA. She knows all her letter sounds, backwards and forwards; she is reading simple words on her own or bringing pages to me and asking; she knows all -- ALL! -- of Winston's sight word flash cards; and her reading comprehension is better than her big brother's. She's ready!
Winston is one dictation exercise and a read-aloud away from being done with FSRA and beginning FSRB. I could start her on FSRA when he is ready to transition. A few concerns:
1) I will have to order Core Skills Phonics K. Should I just go ahead and order the rest of the SC1 consumables she will need? It seems a little silly to pay shipping for just one thing.
2) How do I complete SCB while adding in RS1 and FSRA? Because I want her to finish it! She still loves to color the letter of the week and we are getting a lot of mileage out of Big Thoughts, Richard Scarry, the crafts and the read-alouds from SCB. All my kids also love looking through the RS workbooks (Counting With Numbers, Adventures With Books) and the exercises are definitely beneficial. I sometimes run off a copy for Winston so they can complete them together. So mashing everything together is fine, but that leads to...
3) Will picking up FSRA now make teaching her SC1 a major headache? Because by the time she's done with SCB, finishes FSRA-D and RS1, Winston will be starting Level 2 and she will be doing a sub-version of SC1, with advanced math and phonics -- I suppose I can customize her level then...?
My brain is muddled. Help me make sense of this?

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