One of the great strengths of homeschooling is that it gives parents the ability to tailor their child’s education to their individual needs. Although Exploring the World through Story was designed as a K-8 program, placement is flexible. EWS provides carefully scaffolded writing instruction and stories that appeal to a wide range of ages, so…
Because EWS teaches writing skills sequentially, you should choose levels based on the student’s writing needs, not other programs you may be using. That said, middle school students can use individual units in Levels G-I to align their literature studies with history.
I strongly urge you not to rearrange lessons in EWS. Within each level, lessons increase in difficulty as students work through the program sequentially. Rearranging lessons means that this aspect of the program, along with the built-in review, will be lost.
In general, I recommend that families choose the age or grade level of EWS appropriate for each student to assure adequate challenge and academic progress. If, however, the students are at roughly the same level in reading comprehension and writing skills, you can use the same level of EWS with both. Be mindful of the…
Because each level of EWS is carefully designed to build writing skills sequentially, I do not recommend combining levels by picking and choosing individual lessons. If your student needs to make more rapid progress to get up to grade level, consider accelerating through entire levels by doing more lessons per week. In levels A-F, students…
Wisdom tales are teaching stories that affirm cultural values—often of a religious or moral nature—through the medium of imaginative narratives. The category of wisdom tales encompasses sacred stories from the whole range of the world’s spiritual traditions, ancient and modern. It includes scriptural narratives as well as stories sometimes designated as myths or pious legends.…
If you are having trouble finding an assigned title for EWS, please let me know. When a book goes out of print, I choose an alternative and revise the curriculum as soon as possible. I always offer the updated curriculum free of charge to people who have purchased an earlier version. Details on how to…
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I do work with a number of homeschool charters, so you may be able to use charter funds for Stone Soup Press curriculum. Because all of my products are digital, however, I can only work with charters that either (1) purchase curriculum from my site for their families or (2) reimburse families for their curriculum…
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