Greetings, My name is Linda, and I am homeschooling four children and also teach 12 students for CC. I am a big fan of IEW and this is my second year using it....
Hello this is my first post. After reading many posts and hearing about IEW I have been dying to start my kids using IEW's products. Before I purchase the...
The Bible Based Writing has no separate lesson plans. They assume that you have watched the TWSS which is where the main teacher instruction is located. When...
Jill, Sorry to take so long to get back to you (I think the orginal poster has probably finished this assignment and moved on); I don't get to my computer much...
A friend of mine is looking into purchasing/using IEW writing products. Her hesitation is two-fold. She currently uses Shurley English which has writing...
This was written for the HSLDA competition by my daughter who has been doing IEW for about 6 weeks. Therese An Invaluable Investment "Waaaaaa," the lusty cries...
Jill, Is it the 2008 SWI free lesson plans that I need to download for my 9yo? I couldn't find anything else. He will also need the handout from the SWI B...
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A lot of people using SL Core 100 are using US History-Based Writing Lessons with it. SL's writing instruction is practically nonexistent. The theme-based...
I'm getting frustrated with the teacher notes the lessons say lesson number but the discs go by chapters. so it takes a long time for us to find where we...
I'm afraid I need help in assisting my son. We are a bit mired down in the whole 3-paragraph paper thing. My son has come up with a wonderful story about a...
My son is working on an creative expository essay in which he has to explain how to do something. "How to Avoid Schoolwork" is what he came up with. His three...
My children are very happy to come up with different ways to avoid schoolwork. Some of which are designed to appeal to other sides of my nature, namely, "But...
IEW works great with Sonlight. I have been a Sonlight user for 13 years and loved everything except the writing/language arts component. When I discovered IEW,...
Yes, the ³SWI A 2008 free lessons² will be what you need to supplement the SWI B for your younger child. Your 9 yo will need the ³required source text²...
If you look on the teacher¹s notes of the SWI or SICC, you will see the scene titles for each section. Don¹t look for chapters. Instead, go to the menu of...
When you have dialog in a story that requires frequent paragraph breaks, you can still keep the three section feel of the story simply by double-double space...
Your son can tell a specific story for one of his topics. That usually takes several sentences so it serves well as a single paragraph. If he did that with all...
I have a question about Unit 4, I think, Summarizing a Reference. In the mini-books that come with the materials, the paragraphs are written so that there are...
Very well done... I have 2 adopted daughters (15 and 16) from Russian orphanages, I will share it with them. Thank you for posting! Sandy _____ From:...
The point of having the kids look at the topic/clinchers in the mini-books on the SWI was not to show them how to find topics. The point was to cement the...
Hello! I (the Magnum Opus) need a drawing depicting the hare trying to catch up to the tortoise at the finish line. If you have a student who would be...
I was chuckling to myself as I read this post and had to share it with my husband. As I was reading it aloud to him, my son called from the other room, "Room...
On the frontal assault my 9yo will always tell me that he's the only one who has to do math, English, etc. "Why am I always the one you tell to do these ...
We started Unit III this week and I was trying to figure out how I might not always use Fables since the boys might get sick of using these - and I had a...
This is probably a silly question, but....I know this is going to come up in class so I want to be prepared. We are getting ready for Unit VI in SICC B and I'm...
My dd says, "I can't believe he would tell. Now they'll be on to his tricks!" I told her we already know and go get to work on your math :-) I need to take...
Bauer¹s ³Story of the World² has great little stories that are good for story sequence. Jill Pike Excellence in Writing [Non-text portions of this message...
