Yuantoo Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Hello everyone, I have a 6th grader that is a wonderful reader and writer. I would even say above her grade level. I have put her in some writing classes online as a result she types all of her papers and does well. Recently we joined a coop where she hand writes sentences during class and takes notes. I've noticed that her spelling needs some work. Can you suggest a curriculum that she could use independently to improve this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
................... Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Some suggestions: Apples Daily Spelling Drills for Secondary Students - a simple independent workbook but it's very logical Take words from her own writing, keep a journal and assign 10 words per week from previous weeks to study and learn. As long as she doesn't have any real learning challenges this should be sufficient and is a better approach to the above suggestion. The third option is to get a book of commonly misspelled words and work through that.... At this age starting a curriculum from the ground up is probably not necessary unless her spelling issues are severe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Rod and Staff spelling 6 is a nice finish to the subject of spelling. It makes them work directly with the rules and apply them to the exercises, and it's the very last spelling book my kids do. (R&S spelling 7 and 8 are actually root based vocab books.) This book requires very little work from the parent, and can be completed independently by the student. It's a textbook that she can run entirely herself until she needs her word list called at the end of a lesson. It doesn't really require more writing than a workbook would, beyond labeling the notebook page. Section A works on using and applying spelling rules and analyzing the words used in that lesson. Section B works with the definitions and how to use them. C is dictionary skills, which we found redundant for this age and skipped. Section D is building words, working with suffixes, syllables, and such. Good stuff. Then there's a "Subject Words" section at the end that we also skipped. It's extra vocab that's not attached to the lessons. They did one section a day (A, B, D) on their own, responsible kids graded their own work or I graded for some that weren't ready for that, and then I give the test on the last day. There are sentences in the TM for the tests. You can see samples at milestonebooks.com. The word lists may seem light, but the meat is in the exercises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuantoo Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 Wow, thanks so much for the suggestions. I'll do my homework now and investigate which route is best. I think any of these will work for her. Again thanks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebereid Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Check out logic of English. They have some spelling lists even outside of the curriculum for older kids to review after they've finished the book. Sent from my SM-T520 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaceful Isle Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 My favorite spelling has always been steck vaughn linking words to meanings series. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnMomof7 Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 We are using MegaWords since it focuses in multi-syllabic word constructs. Rod and Staff wasn't helping much anymore for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuantoo Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 Love the suggestions I will definately check them out. :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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