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Reading & Spelling
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| This book provides quick success. The child learns one sound of a few letters and then starts right away to learn how to put them together into words. At the end of the book, most children will be able to read at about a 2nd grade level. One experienced homeschool mom years ago told me she thought this was the most painless way to learn to read. | |
| I wouldn't use these
delightful little books in place of a more thorough method, but I'd
certainly use them in addition. For some reason, the little stick
drawings and simple stories are very appealing. |
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| All About Spelling |
This program takes The
Writing Road to Reading and makes it easy. Before trying
this, we'd been using The Writing
Road to Reading for years, and it worked just fine for my
eldest daughter, but it wasn't cutting it for my sons. All about Spelling switches the
order of the words to word families, and it teaches the spelling rules
explicitly. The books come with material packs made up of index
card sized cards with phonogram cards to learn the sounds for, key
cards (rules to learn), sound cards to write, and word cards to learn
to spell. Each individual parcel of knowledge can go in the
mastered section or the reviewed section so you don't waste time going
over knowledge that has been mastered but don't lose track of
information that hasn't been mastered. Finally, spelling makes
sense to my 12-year-old! This program is far from cheap by the
time you get one teacher book plus a material packet for each child,
but after years of frustration, it's worth it for us. This makes
sense out of spelling. I love it. I recommend using 100 Easy Lessons first and then switching to this for spelling and phonics. You could probably just start with this, and they do have readers now too, but I would still tend toward 100 Easy first. |