IEW STRUCTURE AND STYLE LEVEL 'A' REVIEW | How We Adapt IEW's Schedule to Better Fit Our Homeschool

IEW STRUCTURE AND STYLE LEVEL "A" REVIEW | How We Adapt IEW's Schedule to Better Fit Our Homeschool

We have been using IEW's Structure and Style Level A Year 1 since about 1/3 of the way through the last school year. It is really working great for us, but we do adapt the suggested schedule A LOT. As this is the first formal writing program I have done with my girls, I want to take it nice and easy. However, even in doing so, I have see much improvement in both of my girls' writing.

In this video, I will be giving a flip through and review of this curriculum, as well as sharing the adapted schedule that we have adopted in our homeschool. I hope this can help anyone who is considering this program to get a better idea of what it might look like in their homeschool and if it's something that might work for them.

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00:00 Introduction
01:15 DVD Set
01:35 Teacher Manual Flip Through
02:50 Scope and Sequence
03:25 Possible Scheduling Options
03:45 Week 1 - How It Starts
06:20 Key Word Outline Example
07:30 Week 2 - Writing a Paragraph and What the Videos are Like
09:05 Week 3 - Adding Dress Ups
09:45 Composition Checklist Example
10:45 Week 11 - Writing 3 Paragraph Reports
11:10 Our Alternative Schedule
16:30 Week 12 Checklist
17:55 Week 24 - What to Expect
18:20 Week 23 Checklist Example
19:00 Student Binder Look Through
21:20 Concluding Thoughts

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[kara]

I like how you break this up. Super helpful!

[kara]

Thanks for linking to this…watching now before I buy cause honestly the sample lessons overwhelmed me. Haha!

[kara]

The IEW style is something my son actually had now that I see it in an enrichment program he did for a couple years and he was so overwhelmed by it (they followed the guidelines for papers but they didn’t use the actual curriculum) and he struggled so hard. I’m definitely interested to see how you simplified it.

[mountainmamashome]

I love how informative your videos are. You have a lot of thought and ample experience included in each one. So helpful!

[kara]

Does the program help with spelling at all?

[goodfriendacres]

I found an older copy of Structure and Style last spring. It's basically the version that teaches you how to go through the process and teach it to your child. The Dvds are from a conference.
One thing that really stood out to me was how Andrew Pudewa made a big deal about repeating each step until it is EASY. Don't go on from a key word outline to a written paragraph until the KWO is easy. Don't go on from a written paragraph done together to one done on their own until it is easy. Don't go on to dress-ups (or the next dress-up) until the first one is EASY.
I really, really like the S&S approach so much! I wish I had learned this way. I started KWOs with my 9yr old this year and he's doing really well so far. So well with writing sentences together on the board that I assigned him his first paragraph this week. We'll see how that goes. If its too soon for him, we'll keep doing them on the board. This is a boy who hates having to write.
We're using FixIt! also and he's doing really well with it. Handwriting practice, Grammer, punctuation and vocabulary in 10-15ish minutes. 4 in 1!

[HomegrownHomeschool]

This looks amazing. We might change to it when the kids are a little older.

[hendricks]

I really appreciate this video. We started Level A about 8 weeks ago. We love Pudewa's teaching style, but it recently started feeling somewhat overwhelming to my reluctant writer. I was looking for how to simplify it or adapt the schedule to make it work better for our homeschool. This takes a weight off of my shoulders. Thank you!

[joyiasells]

We are using Fix it Grammar and my children are loving it so far. I am thinking about getting structure and style.

[carolinescurriculumcorner]

Hi there, We have been using IEW writing for four years now with all three levels (the older version). I feel the checklist gets to be a bit much after awhile, requiring 5 dress ups, 6 sentence openers, and a decoration for every, single paragraph! If I made my kids do that, they would absolutely hate writing altogether! So what I do is have the kids do everything on the checklist, BUT it's once PER paper instead of once per paragraph (most papers are three paragraphs). This shows me they know how to do them without causing burn out.

[CalmintheChaosHomeschool]

Have you ever used anything from IEW? How did it go?

[katiegallagher]

This is a fantastic video - thank you so much! Question: I have an ADHD fourth grader who I’d like to try this program, but the length of the videos do concern me. I loved your approach to breaking up the work, we would likely do something similar. Do you ever even break up the videos? Realistically, I probably have about 20-25 before his brain shuts down (and that’s on a focused day!) thank you again for your perspective and God bless!

[Tiffanysroyalcleaningtime]

This was extremely helpful showing us step by step and inside the students notebooks. Thank you for the in-depth review! I’m in some Homeschooling groups on Facebook and they rave about this so looks like I will be getting on board 😊

[homeschoollifemom]

This was so helpful to give me a good idea of what the curriculum is and how it works. I loved seeing how you break it down! I’ve considered using Fix it Grammar for my 3rd grader. Did your girls do Fix it Grammar before using Structure and Style? My daughter is a reluctant writer so I don’t think I would do this program for a year or 2.

[RockSimmer-galGod]

Im thinking of adding this for my high schooler but we set writing assignments for language arts with what writing assignments my kids need for I other subjects so they don’t need to do extra writing!!! My son has been told he’s got to write a lot in his future as writing is probably going z to o be part of his career, if he still goes that way!!!