Our DS5 has been doing LAW for nearly a year. He really likes the class (it begins at a 2nd grade level). He's solidly in the 4th grade level now. The program reviews a lot of grammer-type content -verb tenses, identifying different types of writing, etc. It doesn't give any opportunity for free writing or creative writing that we've encountered.
We just began the RWL and so far all of his questions have been multiple choice content questions about the book he read. DS has only done two twenty minute sessions but I'm not wow'ed by it yet. Some of the questions seemed really vague and weren't teasing out information that I considered to be important. We'll see more as he continues. DS has needed a lot of help from me for RWL so far. (I even had to read the book to assist)
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