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I have a quick question that I can't believe that I haven't asked before!

As I'm scheduling out our lessons for the year, I'm wondering something about the HOD recommendation of students doing 1/3 of the lesson written. For example, my second ds will be doing R&S English 5 this year. In lesson 11, there are oral and written exercises, as well as a review and practice exercise. I, of course, would do the oral exercises aloud with him, and then he should do the written ones on paper. For the written exercises, there is an exercise to re-write the sentences listed in the proper form of a paragraph. Then the next exercise is to take one of the sample sentences listed and formulate a paragraph from it. Following that are Review and Practice exercises. My question is which of these to do written, or if I should be having him do all of them, or even give him the choice? Perhaps the review exercises at the end should also be done orally?

Please forgive me for asking what should probably be a simple question, but I really don't want to miss any intended writing skills by having him choose the one with the least amount of work. Yeah, I know that's what he'd pick if given the choice!

I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts on this!

I would only pick one of the written exercises for him to do. In the example you gave I would probably pick the one where he is to take a sentence and formulate it into a paragraph. All the others I would do orally. I usually pick whichever one I think will benefit him the most.

Thanks, Lynn! I was thinking that's probably what should be done. That's actually what we did with my older ds when we used it. I guess I just wanted to be sure that we weren't missing anything by picking one, instead of doing them all. My next ds is not very fond of writing in general, so I wanted to be sure this aspect of the lessons was planned right!