Fable-Paraphrase

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Abigail Johnson Thank you for all that information. That is very helpful. I feel like I understand how to teach this better.
I have two kids using this program. My daughter, who is younger, has spelling issues, but she doesn’t mind putting pencil to paper. My son is in 8th grade doing...

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Abigail,

Thank you for asking. This is for my daughter, who is 11 years old, doing the MP4 (new users). Thanks for any clarifications.

The other thing I was going to mention is that this is not her “neatest work”. I usually require more neatness in the Final Draft....

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I’ve been reading through some posts and wanting to make sure I understand. I am posting a copy of my daughters paraphrase for Lesson 2 in Fable. I read through it (yes, she is a struggling speller), but what stood out to me was her sentences, at times, sound so much like the original. I am wondering...

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enbateau Thanks! That is really helpful. I am wishing I had done Rod & Staff from the beginning, but I already owned MUS which has also served us well. I do think the writing will help her. In TT I noticed that not having to write a ton meant she tried to do a bunch of them in her head. I also...

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I am new to Rod and Staff. I have a daughter who will be doing MP4 this coming year and I wanted to see if she could handle Math4. We were using Teaching Textbooks previously and I had read that TT is about a tear behind other math programs. Knowing this, I gave her the R&S placement test from...

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Rod & Staff Math Placement:

My daughter (11) has been using Teaching Textbooks for a couple of years now. I just printed the R&S Placement test from Milestone books. My daughter did OK with the Math3. However, I noticed, she made the following errors:

She accidentally...

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I am coming from a very eclectic background of materials. Many of you have seen me on here before and I have used a variety of MP materials. I am looking for a little more help on placement for a couple of kids:

Background:
Year 1 - I first started homeschooling because I had 2 struggling...

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I am looking for tips on structuring the day. For example, my children are 16 (Autism/Cognitive Delay/Sensory Issues and Behavioral Issues), 13 (Dyslexia, Dysgraphia), 11 (Pretty Neurotypical, but resists working with me), 8 (Neurotypical, but does NOT enjoy school and only wants to be outside.) and...

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I am so inspired by this post. Thank you for sharing this. I am in my fifth year of homeschooling and my situation is not going quite as well, but I am also trying to find my flow. I have one question. I keep seeing things like 3M or 3A and I don’t understand what you mean. I was wondering if...

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Thanks ladies.

I had totally forgotten to mention we are doing MP3. Right now we are reading Charlottes Web. She can read the material pretty well as in she missed a few words like manure, one word with a -tion ending). I set a timer for 20min and we got through Reading Notes, Vocab...

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Can someone help me understand how to best use the LitGuides? So, my thoughts are to sit down with a child and:

1-Read the Reading Notes to her. Make sure there isn’t a question.
2-Read through the vocab and the comp qyestions
3-assign the reading or have her read to me?...

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Another trick I use is to teach:

Bat-Ball-B (First I pick up the BAT, then I hit the BALL). This helps when you teach the letter formation to match the stroke in the little saying.

Doorknob-Door-D (First I grab the DOORKNOB, the I open the DOOR.). So you would want to form...

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All:

I wanted to go a little deeper into my 12-yr old son’s abilities.

Phonics/Spelling - we have been doing the Susan Barton program for the past 4 years. He is almost done with book 6 and he needs to finish book 8 to get the complete phonics teaching. However, he can...

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I am wondering if these classes would work for a dyslexic learner. He is still working at typing, but he cannot type fluently. I am wondering if he could do a class like Middle School Science 1 and be ok with just a headset. His spelling is not awesome, but I still think he could learn and do well....

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Cheryl,

Thank you for the clarification. That is helpful. I have the TS1 manual so I’m thinking I will just start prepping the daily activities now (writing the list words out in sentence strips, sentence builder activities, etc...). I did about half of the lessons with my daughter...