Reading Journals & IEW

I am not psychiatrist, but I’d suggest doing a reading journal with these younger kids once or twice a week. Then do verbal narrations to see what they have learned. After you read aloud to them, have each one tell you something about what was read. If time for discussion is there, great! If not, don’t worry about it. Then, you can have them work on a simple IEW assignment once a week or every other week. When my youngest was 7 all we did the entire year was unit 1 with ly words and who/which clauses. That is all. The next year he learned some more dress-ups. I would think the older kids could do similar assignments and move through IEW at the same pace, possibly covering dress-ups, story outlines, essay from one resource, and possibly learning a sentence opener or two.

Don’t worry about getting through it all in a year.


Kerry