What I like: So easy to use, twaddle-free, highly-academic, multilevel, and so economical! What I don’t like: The author’s philosophy is that spelling rules confuse the student, so you shouldn’t introduce the rules. Each level comes with a teacher’s guide and one student workbook, although you can purchase additional worbooks separately. This year I used the first book for my 3rd, 6th, and 8th graders. Regardless of their grade, start them in the first book (it is not at all dumbed down). Though the series is intended for grades K-12, I wouldn’t recommend starting this series before 2nd grade (for good spellers) or 3rd grade (for poor spellers). They get 25 words each day (for 180 days). For example, they might learn: all, tall, stall, install, uninstall, installment, etc. They practice the same group of words for several days before moving on to a new logical progression of a word family. All you do is give your kids a “spelling test” each day - without first teaching a lesson. I believe I have found it! This is one of the programs that my kids actually ask to do! No busy work, the approach is so unique. I do recommend them even though they are optional.įor years I have been looking for a twaddle-free spelling program. You can do sequential spelling on regular notebook paper however, I have found the response book to be very helpful to organize the many "tests" and to condense work into a small booklet. The response book is optional (there is no child's workbook for this level).
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