caedmyn Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 My 9 YO should finish up Barton 8 around June 1 and we'll stop there. Our HS curriculum is not writing heavy and I'm concerned that he'll forget a lot of the spelling rules over time if he's not using them regularly. Did anyone do any sort of spelling program or other means of review after finishing Barton? Would studied dictation Charlotte Mason style be helpful? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 May I just say that if your 9 yo is finishing Barton 8, you ROCK! :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 What about using periodic review from the Barton materials? Extra practice pages, spelling lists, Spelling Success card games, word/spelling games based on Barton rules? Hopefully someone else will have suggestions. I just didn't find a lot of useful material for spelling lessons after Barton but I will be honest I didn't work that hard at it. I spent so much on Barton and had had such bad experiences with other spelling programs that I just kept using Barton material for the most part. And agree with PeterPan, kuddos for reaching Barton Level 8!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storygirl Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 We didn't use Barton. DD12 is in a private dyslexia school. Now that she is past the intense OG remediation period, they incorporate spelling into the writing class. So they will review certain phonograms and tell them their goal is to edit that day's writing to find and correct any mistakes. I am not in the class with her, so I don't know more details. Just that they put the OG into the writing practice. Which makes sense, because in real life, the need to spell correctly is when we are writing sentence and paragraphs, and not just when we are writing words in isolation. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storygirl Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 She just walked in, so I asked. She said they also do a daily writing warm up where they have to find the spelling and punctuation errors in a provided passage of text. They will have mini lessons, such as when to use "ck" instead of "k" and so on. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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