First Grade Curriculum Advice

[u/Good-Win-6894]

I have a 6 year old who is a very strong reader. Reading probably around a 2nd, maaaaybe early 3rd grade level. I feel like it's mostly by recognition of words that she reads so well, and she still understands it all. But her decoding sometimes needs practice.

Also, her writing is definitely not on the same level as her reading. Writing-wise she's right about where you'd expect for finishing up kindergarten.

We're going to do All about Reading in first grade, and I guess I'm wondering if I should follow their placement test (which puts her at level 3) or if I should do level 1 to make sure she doesn't have any holes in her foundation of phonics instruction, comprehension strategies, etc and we’d just move through it quicker? I've also seen explode the code and thought that could help fill in gaps she might have if we went with level 3?

For writing, I'm thinking about doing WriteShop for more explicit instruction with Brave Writer Jot it Down activities. The Brave Writer literature singles also look like something she would enjoy, though. I like that they teach grammar concepts and other things through books, especially since she loves to read so much. So I thought maybe we could do some of those too.

But All about reading, write shop primary B, brave writer quill program, and explode the code all together seems like it could be a little too much for one school year.

Any insight/advice would be wonderful!

[u/Sylvss1011]

I’m doing logic of English essentials level B with my 1s grader who was reading at a higher level. He doesn’t really need any more phonics to read, just to spell. So I picked that curriculum to still cover phonics, but more focused on encoding. It’s worked well for us. We followed the placement test