Thank you so much for your reply @caedmyn !that sounds VERY doable for me! I have been doing multiple levels of all about reading and spelling for 4 years....and yes. I feel so done and just want something different. thanks also for making me feel normal:) Sometimes I feel like a wimp because I am tired of teaching phonics:))

oddly enough my dd13 is loving ace math!! We also tried TT and mus and just wasn't working. she likes the colorful pages and the small packets. They introduce things slowly and it is mastery in a way, but a HUGE amount of repetition. My daughter works almost 3 years behind in math but we are actually making progress with ACE!!!

I am loving apples and pears spelling!

Hi! I have 4 kiddos, but my question is in regards to my youngest 3. I have 2 10 year olds and a 13 year old. My 13 yo dd has global learning delays and issues so i lump her i with my other 2. my other 2 are also (non diagnosed) dyslexic. Anyway...i need some insight to help me make things realistic. i always want to do too much and then MY school schedule is 8 hours without even a potty break . lol So, my 2 of my kids finished aar4. My son (10) was a late reader so he just finished aar3 but has flown through it and hasn't struggled much with it. None of them are ready to fly on their own in regards to decoding. so i would like to do something as a group. I have decided to do REWARDS. I also do apples and pears spelling. right now i have it that I would do REWARDS plus have them do outloud reading as a group, but I'm wondering if that is too much (I always tend to do too much ;) and that is what is making my day a bit too long right now. so for those that have used it. ...how did you do it? Did you do REWARDS and that was the end of their reading time with you ? ( I will still be having them silent read). Also, has anyone else used REWARDS with multiple children at the same time? I am going into my 6th year of homeschooling and you would think that I would have learned to only focus on one thing at a time, but I want to do it all and thus my times of burnout:) I hope i make sense. Anyone that has any other suggestions on how you handled multiple kids with reading challenges...would love to hear!

I responded more to this above, but yes. I believe it is more cognitive impairment which is why I question more intensive programs. I need to sit on this and pray. We will finish AAR because she is learning things! But then I might do DB C with her. She has moderate speech issues so I think that Dancing Bears would be great just with helping her coordinate the sounding out of things because it's hard for her to even say the words that she is decoding in these higher level reading programs.

We had the full scale neuro exam with the school more than once....and no. we have not had the independent exam done...it is obviously very expensive. we knew from day 1 that our daughter could have issues due to birth related stuff.. and yes. I do believe there is actual cognitive impairment . I have other kids with ld's...this is not the same. just tonight my husband was encouraging me. we know and are fully prepared to have our special girl with us for a long time. we do not have the same goals/expectations as we do our other kiddos. I haven't been that interested in getting yet one more test. We went down that road for something else with her and discovered an 18 mm mass in her brain 2 years ago. yes. our hearts stopped. however, as of now she is ok and our neurologist said that the issues she has are not related to this. it was an incidental finding and we really shouldn't know about it. so for 2 years I've stopped investigating her because the last time I pushed for something I opened a huge can of worms:\\ I really emotionally wasn't in the place to learn even more. my husband did encourage me tonight with this though. he said 2 years ago we were hoping that our daughter would be with us for 6 more months (because for 2 weeks we didn't know what was going on). DO NOT stress that she can not or may not be able to read to a 12th grade level. Keep it all in perspective. and he's right. We have no idea what is to come with it. anyway......I haven't ruled out the NP exam. I really don't need to know anymore weaknesses, but I would love to know what her strengths are. so thank you for that reminder.

Oh and I just saw your recommendation for a tutor. YEs! That would be fantastic...but moola. and I have found that It really doesn't save me time. I talked to one last year but I would STILL need to sit in the tutoring sessions to see how she is being taught. So I wouldn't save time and she would only do 2 hours a week. So for $500 a month it doesn't save much stress:/ PLUS she also receives 3 other therapies which is time...and I have 3 other dyslexics that I need to work with:))

I will look at that one again. It is on my possibilities list. I shouldn't have mentioned that she would be bored in the sense of content...she is just much beyond 1 syllable words... but she is very immature . Her sister is 3 years younger than her and she (my 12 yo) can be more immature than her sometimes:) So content is not usually an issue...she is very happy reading about cats....I just need her to read beyond one syllable words . Does that make sense?

I question if she really needs something like Barton though. She would be bored to death starting over and I have looked at the scripting. I just think she would still be very very confused. I also don't like that spelling and reading are combined. Her reading and spelling are many levels a part. I will look at them again though. It's just frustrating because she can easily read through 3rd grade books....and even 4th grade..it's just remembering how to divide the words. I can show her how to divide the word robot (which Is obviously very easy for her to read).....I will divide and and explain the rule. If I push the word back together and have her divde it she is confused...yet she can easily read it. Do you know what I mean. I'm not talking about forgetting day to day...I'm talking about being confused even in the moment. is this normal for dyslexic kiddos? I have 3 other dyslexics...they are more typical...bright, but struggle with spelling or reading. So they don't struggle with the methods. They get it and understand it. I have thought of Dianne Craft but I can't imagine adding that more time onto my already super long day. :\

I'm curious if anyone else has been in this situation. I have a 12 yo dd that is going on her 3rd year of homeschooling. She was in special education (non mainstreamed) when she was in PS (pre K-3rd). She has global challenges....everything is hard for her. She is technically in 6th grade but works grades behind in everything...for example she is working through 2nd grade math right now. Even though she was doing 3rd grade reading when she was in school, she struggled and I started her all over again with All about reading when she came home for 4th grade. We also used all about spelling. She has struggled from day 1 with understanding the rules. She is now in level 4. This is not a child that can't read. yes, her comprehension is in left field (due to inattention and working memory) but her fluency is not bad. however, we are working on these multisyllable words (like examination or admirable). She for the life of her does not know how to divide the syllables. I show her (and have shown her over and over again since level 1) and she still is confused:) She struggles with auditory processing and lots of manipulatives overwhelm her. Soooo, we are a 4th of the way through AAR 4. I am really questioning what to do after this. We did drop aas for apples and pears because there was absolutely no understanding of rules (plus I have 2 other kids I'm teaching aar and aas too and I don't enjoy teaching it and it was my entire day:) We are much happier with apples and pears so far. I'm curious if anyone else that has a kiddo like this. OG is great and good, but wondering if I should consider high noon or dancing bears? Again, she needs to work mostly at 4th grade level and above words. I've used Megawords but balck and white workbooks confuse the daylights out of her plus she gets back to dividing things again. it overwhelms her. Any creative suggestions for helping upper level reading without complicated cutting patterns ect?

Thank you so much for the response ! I ordered it and am just going to take the plunge. The thought of just opening and going for spelling is very freeing to me! Thanks again! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thank you so much for your reply! I actually used Dancing Bears with my youngest son. He was TOTALLY stuck in All About Reading 1. After 18 months of being "Stuck" I tried it and I swear it's what got him over the hump with "sounding" out words. Of course I also stopped the reading and focused on All About Spelling at that point so maybe it was a bit of both. He finished DBA and wanted to go back to All About Reading. He is now doing very well in level 2...we are only just starting. If we get stuck again I will do DB B. ANYWAY....I am so nervous to switch away from AAS because it so recommended. But it's so silly for me to be because years ago it didn't even exist! Lol My daughter also has "specific learning disability" in written and expressive language. She struggles with many things which is my other concern with all about spelling....the rules mean nothing to her. Thanks for your encouragement. I guess it won't hurt to switch because it would be awesome for me to not dread the spelling hour everyday! :)

I would love info on folks that have used apples and pears. I have 3 children that I use all about reading for and all about spelling . It is obviously VERY time consuming. I spend 90 minutes to 2 hours a day just on reading and spelling. I am really burning out on spelling . I spend a lot of time with it and my kudos are still atrocious ;). My 9 year old will ace the lesson and totally misspell it in outside writing . I know that's Common but of I am killing myself to work on spelling ...I want it worth it! Lol I really don't think the rules mean a thing to my kids ...I believe they are WAY more visual spellers. So I'm considering apples and pears. I've read such good things. My concern is that it will take just as much time as now. Has anyone used apples and pears with 2 or 3 kids? How do you orchestrate it?

I would love info on folks that have used apples and pears. I have 3 children that I use all about reading for and all about spelling . It is obviously VERY time consuming. I spend 90 minutes to 2 hours a day just on reading and spelling. I am really burning out on spelling . I spend a lot of time with it and my kudos are still atrocious ;). My 9 year old will ace the lesson and totally misspell it in outside writing . I know that's Common but of I am killing myself to work on spelling ...I want it worth it! Lol I really don't think the rules mean a thing to my kids ...I believe they are WAY more visual spellers. So I'm considering apples and pears. I've read such good things. My concern is that it will take just as much time as now. Has anyone used apples and pears with 2 or 3 kids? How do you orchestrate it? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would love info on folks that have used apples and pears. I have 3 children that I use all about reading for and all about spelling . It is obviously VERY time consuming. I spend 90 minutes to 2 hours a day just on reading and spelling. I am really burning out on spelling . I spend a lot of time with it and my kudos are still atrocious ;). My 9 year old will ace the lesson and totally misspell it in outside writing . I know that's Common but of I am killing myself to work on spelling ...I want it worth it! Lol I really don't think the rules mean a thing to my kids ...I believe they are WAY more visual spellers. So I'm considering apples and pears. I've read such good things. My concern is that it will take just as much time as now. Has anyone used apples and pears with 2 or 3 kids? How do you orchestrate it? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk