What do the Writing/Discussion & Vocab lessons look like in your house?

[Jennifer in SC]

I'm so excited to be starting Beyond with my daughter this year. I've been doing some planning, and I can't quite decide how I want to do the Writing and Vocab parts.

Writing is a big struggle for my daughter, so I think I'm going to ease her into that. Discuss it, then have her write a few sentences about what we've discussed. I'll work up to having her write more as the year goes on.

I'm not sure what I want to do with the vocabulary words though. Do you just review them? Make some kind of worksheets? Have your child write out the definitions? Keep a vocab notebook?

How do you use them? Thanks! :D

[Heather B in MS]

We do a page of vocab words for that unit in our Beyond binder. They define them and sometimes write a sentence using them.

[Kate P]

Do you do a seperate grammar?

[Kendall in GA]

Do you do a seperate grammar?

BYFIAR does not include grammar. You will have to incorporate your own grammar, if you choose.

[Kendall in GA]

I'm not sure what I want to do with the vocabulary words though. Do you just review them?

:yes: We review them orally.

[Anjie in PA]

This is how we did vocab the last two years: we kept a running list (words both from BY and other reading) of the words and definitions. Once we got to about 20, I gave the girls about a week to learn them well, both spelling and definitions, then I gave them a test.

[Tricia O]

So far we have been doing most of it orally. My daughter is 10, but just beginning Beyond, and not used to writing much yet. She has written a paragraph here & there though.