Teaching 2 with R&S & does one need to catch up?

[Mumkins]

I'm doing R&S 2 for English this year with my 4th and 2nd grade children. Any tips on teaching two the same level? I know you're suppose to do some orally. Do I just have them take turns answering? Should I separate the oral part or do it separately all together?

Is there any need to try to catch my oldest up this year or should I just do it daily in later guides so that she's completing full books instead of half books each year later on?

[inHistiming]

I think you could do this either way. Since you are starting in 4th grade you could just do a level per year and still finish level 6 by the end of 8th grade. However, level 2 and possibly level 3 should be fairly easy to move through more quickly, so you could try that as well. I think the main concern would be if you have to test your children at the end of the year and if you're at all worried about the grammar scores for your 4th grader being 'low'.

As far as doing grammar together or separate, I would probably do it separately, because even though they may be using the same level book their ability levels are most likely going to be different, and it would probably be easiest to be able to focus on each child individually with that in mind.

Hope that helps some.

[my3sons]

I agree with inHistiming - it probably depends on your goals. Either way, doing about 2/3 of it orally has made grammar super easy for us. You may actually find it easier to do them separately, but you'll be able to tell. Your fourth grader may do fine with R & S English 3, being older, as long as she had the Beyond introduction to grammar's basic parts of speech, and seems ready for it - if your goal is to have it be more rigorous for her. Otherwise, if it's working well doing them together, and you don't mind dd doing a book a year, you could easily go that route too. As far as sharing, you could alternate having them orally answer the first 2/3 of each section, and then require them to write the last third of every section independently, putting the book between them. You could let your second grader know you expect that child to finish much later than the older child, due to writing maturity. You could do all of the oral parts first, and let them do the independent parts all in a row last, sitting near your 2nd grader to help if needed.

In Christ,
Julie

[Mumkins]

I really think my DD needs level 2. She had next to no knowledge of the subject, aside from a noun really. LA and Math were the two things we've really jumped around with. If it's ok to finish 6 in 8th, then that's what we'll do. Or I wonder if I should do it in the summers, so when the higher levels come with more work in all areas, she can still be going slow with grammar.