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by lovedtodeath
Tue May 25, 2010 7:54 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: help w/ placement in beyond or bigger pls
Replies: 16
Views: 3019

Re: help w/ placement in beyond or bigger pls

You may want to look at the information on How To Tutor a Remedial student on the phonics page site. You could also try some good old fashioned readers that may seem less babyish, since he is an older student working at a lower level. It is highly recommended that you have the child read out loud to...
by lovedtodeath
Tue May 25, 2010 2:01 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: help w/ placement in beyond or bigger pls
Replies: 16
Views: 3019

Re: help w/ placement in beyond or bigger pls

I completely agree with choosing Beyond, and getting the level of reading that you have chosen. I would make reading a big priority. There are some phonics lessons and some teacher tips for remediating here: http://www.thephonicspage.org/Phonics%2 ... links.html
by lovedtodeath
Tue May 25, 2010 11:41 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Being on the younger side of the age range for the guides...
Replies: 11
Views: 2284

Re: Being on the younger side of the age range for the guides...

LOL to us all!No reason to apologize. :lol:
by lovedtodeath
Tue May 25, 2010 10:19 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Being on the younger side of the age range for the guides...
Replies: 11
Views: 2284

Re: Being on the younger side of the age range for the guides...

You sound like you think you are disagreeing with me... but you aren't. :?

About the "babyish" comment... that is partly because my crowd is Classical Education. They tend to have their 5 year olds doing first grade classical work and think that CM is "light".
by lovedtodeath
Tue May 25, 2010 9:18 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Being on the younger side of the age range for the guides...
Replies: 11
Views: 2284

Re: Being on the younger side of the age range for the guides...

I have seen people ignore the placement chart and go with the guides on the older end of the age scale and deeply regret it. They complain that HOD was "too babyish" and dismiss it altogether when they could have saved themselves a lot of grief if they had placed right to begin with. Trust the place...
by lovedtodeath
Tue May 25, 2010 8:58 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Spelling Woes for 12 and 10 dds
Replies: 5
Views: 1964

Re: Spelling Woes for 12 and 10 dds

This will probably help, it describes studied dictation: Then the child 'prepares' the passage himself (this is onpage 242 of volume one). This preparation involves having the child slowly look through the passage and anytime he comes to a word he thinks he can't spell he is to look at it attentivel...
by lovedtodeath
Mon May 24, 2010 9:58 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: How HOD has helped ME grow this year
Replies: 6
Views: 1439

Re: How HOD has helped ME grow this year

That is wonderful! Thanks for sharing!

Carmen
by lovedtodeath
Mon May 24, 2010 2:02 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: If my daughter loved The House on Walenska Street...
Replies: 2
Views: 832

If my daughter loved The House on Walenska Street...

What Story Time books do you think I should choose? I am going through both the Beyond and the Bigger guide and doing all of the Storytime books, some genres more than once. Thanks!
by lovedtodeath
Sun May 23, 2010 7:36 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: New here....please help!
Replies: 14
Views: 2666

Re: New here....please help!

Welcome! I am new to HOD also, and thrilled to have found it. I have a good baring on the books used in Preparing. I think that your second grader could go along for a great deal of it. Child's History of the World would definitely fit and I am betting most of the history readings. From what I have ...
by lovedtodeath
Sat May 22, 2010 9:48 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Tell me about the science?
Replies: 11
Views: 2205

Re: Tell me about the science?

Thanks Julie!
by lovedtodeath
Sat May 22, 2010 8:53 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: I'm back again with a question.
Replies: 3
Views: 946

Re: I'm back again with a question.

Isn't it cool that you can use the same guide all over again and change up enough to keep it fresh? I was just looking at my catalog and thinking about how that would work. :P
by lovedtodeath
Fri May 21, 2010 10:41 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Thinking of Switching to HOD with ?'s
Replies: 4
Views: 1085

Re: Thinking of Switching to HOD with ?'s

Have you seen the program placement chart? http://www.heartofdakota.com/placing-your-child.php I have seen over and over again on this forum that it is most important to place your child into the right program even if they will be repeating or skipping some of the history. The child's skill level an...
by lovedtodeath
Fri May 21, 2010 8:08 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Has anyone used books from the extension as storytime books
Replies: 18
Views: 3828

Re: Has anyone used books from the extension as storytime books

Thanks Carrie. I have been leaning toward using fewer of the extension books and more of the storytime books, but of the storytime books that fit in with American History, I want them in chronological order. :roll: Tee hee. We are reading Boys and Girls of Colonial Days now and I plan to get some of...
by lovedtodeath
Fri May 21, 2010 4:08 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Tell me about the science?
Replies: 11
Views: 2205

Re: Tell me about the science?

Thank you for responding. That is exciting that the Apologia book is used. I haven't read the links yet... Lab sheets? I don't see any in my Bigger manual?
by lovedtodeath
Fri May 21, 2010 2:36 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: how much phonics?
Replies: 4
Views: 1134

Re: how much phonics?

100 Easy lessons stops at 2nd grade level. I would at least go through phonics up to 4th grade level, which is where Ordinary Parents Guide leaves off. I would also be sure to include syllabication, which can be found at the end of the page here: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20R...owtotutor.html...