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I went ahead with DITHOR this year for my older who is doing Bigger with Extensions. The DITHOR is totally different, and in my opinion, very necessary. It delves in much deeper to the genres and the comprehension component of literature. It discusses the characters and the Godly traits they do or d...

How are Reading Made Easy and 100EL similar? I think I may need a different phonics program for my 6 year old. I was considering Reading Made Easy with the workbook since I really liked the workbook samples. I can't seem to look at the samples of Reading Made Easy website. I don't really like 100EL...

My ds 5.5 sounds a lot like yours Donna. He is reading well above level even though we are only at long e sounds in LLATL Blue and silent e in ETC (he is also finishing book 3). We will stay the course with ETC...but I think we are also going to move along and start CLE "Learn to Read" in the middle...

Me too please rsnyder9@embarqmail.com

It seems like a lot of $ for something that is just so ...obvious, IMO. I am not bashing her system...but my kids have a printed schedule. My oldest son is 10 and I put his books out the night before. He looks at his scheduled, does what he needs to from the book, and marks it with a check. It is th...

I have never liked the approach used by Reading Made Easy or 100EL (they are similar, I think)...but I also don't like learning to read with a bunch of sight words. :( Has anyone here used or tried CLE LA? Or Learning to Read? We would have to start in the middle of the LTR because my ds has finishe...

My son is 5.5 and is starting Beyond in the fall. He is finishing up LLATL Blue right now and is halfway through Book 3 in Explode the Code. I really don't want to go on to LLATL Red with him...but I am having a hard time deciding what to do with him. He is reading really well...but we have not fini...

We will be using Pentime 2 for handwriting with Beyond. We really love their program

Some of the books do overlap...but not all of them. I think it really depends on the reading level of your older students and how much you want to challenge them. The $5 book suggestion list is really worth the money!

My Bigger box was so much fun!!! My Beyond box, of course, had less books, but still fun. I keep eyeballing HHTT and drooling over the great History books in it! My oldest ds and I LOVE history.

ETA: I think she was referring to the books suggested for read alouds vs the books chosen for DITHOR. Some of them do overlap a bit...and they overlap between the programs. My older can read some of the books suggested for DITHOR.. what my younger is having read to him in Beyond, etc. For instance, ...

We are using Bigger with the extensions and DITHOR in the fall. My older ds will read the extension books in his reading time. The books read for DITHOR...even though I could choose the same ones as the read alouds, I am not going to. I want DITHOR to be its own program and have its own elements. I ...

Thanks ladies. It sure was a tough decision...especially with my younger. I am actually glad my older needed Am History, because I wouldn't want to go straight to HHTT with him in 5th grade and I wouldn't have wanted to repeat CHOW, so he was a no brainer. It was my little stinker that was just on t...

I typed up a great response and when I hit send, I lost it. :( Darn! The point of my post was that I would do everything possible to help her enjoy the reading - make maps, build replicas, act out parts of the book, make paper dolls, create coloring sheets - really anything to gain her interest. How...

Oh wow! What luck! Enjoy your goodies!