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I'm interested in using a spelling program with DD (7) over the summer. She is reading at a DRA level 30 but her spelling lags behind. For example, here are some words followed by how DD spells them:

 

Easter-Ester

jumped-jumpt

burning-brning

Shine-sine

Earth-Erth

 

I have been leaning towards AAS. I'm looking for a mostly open and go (although I don't mind some intitial set up) program that explains the whys of spelling. I'm a literate adult but I could not have told you that the "e" in came makes the vowel say it's name until I began teaching DD to read.

 

I afterschool so we have not used a ton of curriculum but if it helps, I've really liked Math Mammoth. We also used 100 E-Z lessons. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either. We got through it and when we did, DD was reading as promised.

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Sounds like AAS would work well. It's open and go, you can set your lesson time to 15 or 20 minutes a day (so it's doable), and it would teach you all of the rules along the way.

 

She'd learn that sh is the most common way to spell /sh/, that every syllable needs at least one vowel, that the -ed ending can sound like /ed/, /d/, or /t/, and so on. 

 

 

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I would go with AAS as it teaches the rules involved in spelling. Spelling does still involve some visual element - like knowing when to use EE and when to use EA to spell the long E sound and from level 3 I believe this is gradually introduced. How has your DD been learning spelling up to now? Is she just spelling phonetically without being taught how to spell (many classes seem to be doing this now) or is she given lists to learn off by heart?

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We use AAS here. DD is 7 (almost 8) and in 2nd grade and DS is 6 and is 1st grade.  DS has always been somewhat of a natural speller where as DD needed some more work.  I have seen lots of great improvement in her spelling recently, so we're sticking with AAS for now.

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I would go with AAS as it teaches the rules involved in spelling. Spelling does still involve some visual element - like knowing when to use EE and when to use EA to spell the long E sound and from level 3 I believe this is gradually introduced. How has your DD been learning spelling up to now? Is she just spelling phonetically without being taught how to spell (many classes seem to be doing this now) or is she given lists to learn off by heart?

 

She is just spelling phonetically without being taught how to spell.

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I would go with AAS as it teaches the rules involved in spelling. Spelling does still involve some visual element - like knowing when to use EE and when to use EA to spell the long E sound and from level 3 I believe this is gradually introduced. How has your DD been learning spelling up to now? Is she just spelling phonetically without being taught how to spell (many classes seem to be doing this now) or is she given lists to learn off by heart?

 

Yes, actually AAS starts introducing visual strategies with the word banks in Level 2. There are 4 main strategies taught--phonetic, rules-based, visual, and morphemic, as well as a few others. The student is taught these incrementally, and then in the upper levels, they are taught how to analyze a word and decide which methods are most effective for various words. 

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