Thanks, polarbear, I'll check for the district's standards. We picked up Dragon for him on his birthday recently. There is some frustration in training it, but so far so good.

Big thing is I don't want to set my expectations too high. Like if he writes a sentence that is a perfectly good 3rd grade sentence I don't want to be prodding him to elaborate. We need to turn in written examples within two weeks, and received stuff from his school writing folder this week.