The Critical Thinking Company - Language Arts?

[Shelsi]

Who has used their LA books? Did you use it as a complete curriculum? Did you feel it covered everything well enough? Ds is in kindy and about to finish his level 1 Sing, Spell, Read, and Write so I think I'd be doing the 1st grade level of The CTC's stuff. I guess the fact that it's so cheap is what is really throwing me off. I looked at some of the samples they had online and it looks really nice.

Pros? Cons?

[Shelsi]

Anyone?

[Shelsi]

Just giving this one last bump!

[philia]

critical

I have heard great things. I am going to order it and use it long with my Abecka.
Philia

[amis2girls]

Had you seen this thread: http://www.mothering.com/discussions....php?t=1210739

[Shelsi]

Thanks. How'd you get all those people to comment on your thread? lol. I must be bumping mine at the wrong time.

I still can't figure out if I can use their Language Smarts for 1st grade as a core curriculum or not. It says you can on their website but then it seems most tend to use it as a supplement so I'm not sure what to do. I know I have yet to find anything else that I'm interested in though.

[AAK]

I have used Reading Detective with my dd. It is ok--more like a book of samples from standardized tests than anything else. However, they do use excerpts from good books, have a combination of fiction/non-fiction and cover reading comprehension pretty well. I haven't used anything else under the "Language Arts" umbrella and reading detective would def. not be a complete curriculum.

We also used their logic books http://www.criticalthinking.com/getP...d=01304&code=p and we felt that they were a bit too easy compared to what I expected. We ordered A1 and A2 because they were to "spriral up in difficulty with in the grade level". But, we didn't notice any change in difficulty. I wish I would have ordered up a level (to the B level) on those.

Amy

[Shelsi]

Thanks. I think I'm going to go ahead and take the plunge and get their Language Smarts level B and try it as a core curriculum for ds's 1st grade. Worse thing that happens is that it's not enough and we have to supplement or buy a totally different program and we'll use the CTC as supplementation.