Posted by S. Duggan
I am wondering what people are using for early/mid grade school spelling? I have been using Spelling Power with V. for a 3 or so years now and like it. The approach makes sense to me and she has been doing well with it. In part it is based on the child being familiar with words because of the reading they are doing in all of life. That works fine for her as she is a good and fairly avid reader. My 8 year old son, A, is very different, a more audio learning, a reluctant and slow reader etc. He and I are both getting frustrated with spelling for him, he make mistakes that are logical based on how a word sounds, with so many funky different sound combos for the same sound in English this is becoming frustrating, fast. I am not a good speller myself, so I share his frustrations. Think I my need to switch systems to find something that works better for both us but when I look at sites I can't sort them out or know what might help. So thought I would start here for suggestions/advise.
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Have you looked at IEW's Phonetic Zoo by Andrew Pudewa? We started using it for Carissa, but she didn't love it, so I dropped it (and kept meaning to replace it with something, but haven't!)
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Have you looked into Spell to Write and Read by Wanda Sanseri? This program works for all learning styles. It's based on 70 phonograms and 28 rules. Both my kids are doing well. I believe it has helped my 1st grade son with his reading. If you like, I can bring my books to church for you to look at.
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