Language Arts | 7th | 5th | 3rd | K |Homeschool Curriculum Choices for 2023-2024

[@TheChan7]

What are some of your favorite language arts resources?

[@tatyana1324]

Thank you for sharing 🙏😊

[@TheChan7]

Thanks for watching!! :)

[@PrayersandCrayons]

I’m so happy to discover your channel here! I find it interesting that you used to be a dentist as well. & yes, time to talk about all the curriculum!I love your choices !

[@TheChan7]

Thank you so so much! So so glad we can connect and have this community here!!

[@LoveThemWell]

CLE looks so affordable and easy! I love that your daughter can check her own work. Your channel is BEAUTIFUL! I'm so glad you are part of this community:)

[@TheChan7]

Thank you!! Our oldest has to pretty much has to learn to be independent quickly since we were so busy with infants and toddlers and the military lifestyle. And thank you!! I am so enjoying your fun, creative videos. I love your perspective so much.

[@CalmintheChaosHomeschool]

You are right. It’s so cool how Easy Grammar picks out the prepositions first. Such a unique and helpful approach.

[@TheChan7]

Such a fresh perspective!

[@MelissaWilhelminaOfficial]

We start Wordroots next year as well. I totally forgot to mention it in my video 🤦‍♀️

[@TheChan7]

It’s okay. This is so early for me to even know all of what we’re going to be doing next school year.

[@BlessingsatHome]

Word ladders looks like something I would have loved doing. Your little one is super cute, singing with her cup haha.

[@TheChan7]

I’m excited for word ladders. And she even prays with her cup in her mouth. Lol.

[@SDaulton]

Thank you for sharing! We’re using many of the same resources! IEW, CLE Reading, AAR… I’m still deciding between CLE LA and Easy Grammar for my upcoming 6th grader. Glad you mentioned word ladders too! Used them a few years ago and enjoyed them, time to bring them back I think!

[@TheChan7]

We love CLE! Eager to try AAR. And easy grammar has been amazing for our family, but of course it doesn’t include many of the components that CLE LA includes-spelling, handwriting, sentence diagramming… thank you so so much for watching!

[@AbidingHomeschool]

Your little one stole the show! We use IEW and love it! I keep going back to view CLE, but haven't purchased it yet for my 6th and 7th graders.

[@TheChan7]

Sorry for the slow reply. Didn’t see this comment until now. I think our 2 year old tries to still the show. Lol. What subjects in CLE are you considering? We love LA and reading. We have tried Bible, art, and social studies as well.

[@RockSimmer-gal4God]

It is the season and we are looking at different curriculums together as I want my older kids to help me decide what they are using!!! I’ve not got things figured out yet!!! We don’t use a reading curriculum unless it’s to teach reading!!! We love using books for learning!!! I wish we could get rid of a spelling problem but my older kids struggle with spelling!!! My kids don’t enjoy the readers In TGTB!!! As we use books for other subjects I allow them to read other fiction books as they are reading a lot!!! We love AAR!!! I bought it for my older kids who struggle with reading and my youngest loves it!!!

[@TheChan7]

TGATB didn’t work for us either. Glad to hear AAR is good. I keep thinking it could mean a lot of teaching and time on my part but I’m excited. Instead of a reading program, did you or do you do anything literature based?

[@RockSimmer-gal4God]

@@TheChan7 I piece together unit studies and curriculum with books and we use sonlight!!!

[@onecaffeinatedmom]

Loved your jingle! 😂 Easy Grammar has been working really well for us too and so has Word Roots

[@TheChan7]

Thank you!! Silly but everything triggers a song in my head. Lol. And awesome! I can’t wait to try word roots!

[@homeschoolingthroughhighschool]

You have so much great stuff here! Your language arts for next year will be rich. 🌻

[@TheChan7]

Thank you! I hope so.

[@HomeschoolwithJen]

Thank you for the recommendation of CLE for reading. Abeka stopped making the reading and comprehension sheets at 7th grade. We love The Fallacy Detective!

[@TheChan7]

So far, we have loved CLE reading without fail. Never tried abeka reading and comprehension. I’m sure it’s fantastic. I just couldn’t get myself to try a lot of the boxes curricula possibly because of the initial sticker shock. Lol. I’m excited to get into the fallacy Detective! Can’t wait to hear how all your materials go!

[@TeachingTinyDisciples]

What a cute visitor! ❤

[@TheChan7]

Thank you. Lol

[@HomeSweetHomeschoolLife]

We really enjoy The Fallacy Detective.

[@TheChan7]

I’m excited for it. It looks very easy to use.

[@minecraftscientistkids9616]

We loved IEW Level B with the videos. I hope it works well for you!

[@TheChan7]

Yay!! Makes me more excited for iew. I go back and forth because we’d have 2 kids doing level A and one kid doing level B. And that’s a lot of time spent just on the lectures. Have you tried any other writing programs? Wondering what you think about them. I was considering EIW as well.

[@HomegrownHomeschool]

How funny that we’re both using The Fallacy Detective!

[@TheChan7]

Cool! So excited for it.

[@Homeschoolology]

Is the Fallacy Detective neutral or secular? Or does it have Christian content? Thanks for sharing all of your pics!

[@TheChan7]

Hi! From what we’ve tried of the Fallacy Detective, so far it’s neutral. There isn’t any Christian related content in the program. I’ll try to do a review once we get rolling.

[@Homeschoolology]

@@TheChan7 Thank you!!

[@schultesweeties]

Thanks for sharing the progressive phonics! I’ve never heard of it!

[@TheChan7]

It’s pretty awesome and plus anything free, I’m all for. There are so many programs I want to try out there, but when it comes down to it, it’s usually the cost that gets me. I feel like there are so many great free resources that I don’t feel the need to always spend.

[@schultesweeties]

We love word ladders!

[@TheChan7]

Can’t wait to try it!

[@TeachingTinyDisciples]

My son really liked Fix It grammar but needed too much help and it didn’t go in depth. I think it will pair really nicely with Easy Grammar.

[@TheChan7]

That is great to hear. I think that’s why our oldest didn’t like fix it. She didn’t feel challenged enough and felt that she needed more.

[@minecraftscientistkids9616]

Also, word ladders was a big hit! We also found it to be helpful for students to collaborate if they are in different grades but at a similar level in LA. It was good for them to have a collaborative subject.

[@TheChan7]

That is so good to know. Thank you!! Can’t wait to try it. I may end up having more kids use it after seeing how much people like it.

[@crazychappellchaos9910]

It’s homeschool mom Christmas!

[@TheChan7]

Lol. Getting curriculums is like Christmas to me and everything in my life triggers a song in my head.

[@BaileyAcademy]

That's a lot of different resources for a lot of different kids. Is it hard to keep track?

[@TheChan7]

I know… we’ll see how it goes. A few of the resources I added because I really want to try them. And we don’t usually do everything in a program, like we’re using iew for writing instead of the writing provided through cle. And programs like easy grammar and Evan moor spelling go pretty quickly. I’m most concerned about the long video lectures through iew. We’re not used to any video lectures and especially long ones.

[@TheChan7]

Fortunately many of our kids have become more independent, but it’s still a juggle. And we definitely don’t get everything done in a single day. I am pretty type A so i like to check boxes, but I’ve come to accept that whatever doesn’t get done will have to wait until tomorrow. It’s not always easy with temperaments and younger ones in the mix, so we all have to give ourselves grace. You got this, momma!

[@katie7748]

My children all learn differently, therefore requiring various different curricula. I try to be as organized as possible so I don't get confused or forget what's what. Charts help 😊

[@TheChan7]

@@katie7748 eventually you get into a rhythm and it flows nicely like a chart for sure. I like your chart idea :)

[@TeachingTinyDisciples]

The Fallacy Detective sounds great!

[@TheChan7]

We’ve already tried a few lessons and it’s fantastic!

[@PrayersandCrayons]

I also have a future kindergartner that I’m going to try tgatb with and we also have all about reading.

[@TheChan7]

Unfortunately TGATB hasn’t been our favorite but so many love it. We are love aar though.

[@TeachingTinyDisciples]

We tried CLE in 4th grade and my son did not like it. I think he didn’t like all the writing in the workbooks. But we loved the stories! May just buy the readers to have on our shelves 😅

[@TheChan7]

That’s what happened with our son. He’s on the neurodivergent spectrum and all the worksheets were overwhelming for him. I have a video about why we quit TGATB.

[@TheChan7]

TGATB and cle for him.

[@Jessiemadanat]

IEW and all their products

[@TheChan7]

So far we have loved iew although it was pretty intimidating at first.

[@blessedhomeschoolmess]

I can’t wait to incorporate fix it grammar

[@TheChan7]

I’m eager to try fix it also. Hopefully it’ll work out this go around.

[@shalon4jc2]

We love christian light education

[@TheChan7]

Yes! Cle is so rich, complete, and affordable :)

[@kellybeachler4177]

Bible heroes are a good fit for third grade. We like to start Structure and Style Level A in 5th grade.

[@TheChan7]

That’s good advice. Thank you!!!

[@bribriannita7935]

Her little singing 🥹 please later in the year can we have an update on how AAR went 😁

[@TheChan7]

Her singing…trying to distract me. Lol. Yes, I’d love to update on AAR. Thanks so much for asking :)