Everything everyone said. DD is being slowly eaten alive by this, I swear. She writes like an angel (confirmed by testing, FWIW--scored in the top .05% statewide) and she's every good English teacher's dream. But she's not all that great at "Take this boring sentence from this boring canned reading apart word by word and dissect it." DH and I can't correctly answer many of the questions in her CC workbook, either. Why is my language-gifted 6th grader using an effing workbook anyway?