aready Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 I have an above average 3rd grade speller. I really like WTM and the philosophy. What are your thoughts on Spelling Workout overall. My dd is very verbal and LOVES writing, if that helps anyone. I don't know which book to put her on either. Should I do C? D? Don't know. Any input you have would be great! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jec3113 Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 I would try level D. Thats what we are doing, if it ever gets here, it is on backorder. I pulled the books up on amazon to look at the insides of the books. I just guessed based on the difficulty of the words in level D. ie. Lesson 1 words until, swift, bottles, pineapple, banner, hundren, fame, later, film, gallon, traffic, eleven, wild, silent, letters, dollar, barrel, twelve, hammer, seven. lesson 22 words appointed, boiling, broiling, crayon, destroyed, disappoint, disloyal, displays, employ, fray, noises, praised, railroad, royaloty, soybean, spoiled, sprain, swaying, voices, waist. Sometimes the words seem easy, but the lessons can be challenging. There are a lot of phonics which is why I decided to go with this program. We are liking it alot so far. One child has had books for several weeks (level E), the level D student book for my third grader is not here yet, but I have the teacher book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopeallgoeswell Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 My dd loves Spelling Workout. She is 6.5 and a natural speller as well as a fluent reader. She is in the last third of level B. I have level C here. There is a "pep talk" at the beginning of each lesson giving the "rules" for the list. The pre-lesson, if you will, is a story (they seem to be all non-fiction) with a few spelling words used. There are six small activities (only the first one uses all the words) per week. The first one usually splits the list up by phonetic rules. The second and third are activities such as rhyming, scrambled puzzle, dictionary work, or word shape puzzle. Then there is a writing promt where the student writes a paragraph using as many list words as he or she can. The last activity is proofreading. There are five All-Star Words with different prompts. There is a dictionary in the back which includes all the list words. There are 15 words per list until week 20 when they increase to 20. All of the list words are written in cursive after lesson 18. Here is a link to the table of contents: http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=628172&item_code=WW&netp_id=222193&event=ESRCN&view=covers#curr. IMHO, these words are easy for an above average third grader. For example, week 3 has faces, wagon, and danger and week 35 has hour, our, pear, pair, and pear. Happy choosing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hscherger Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 My son is also an advanced third grader and I just ordered level D from CBD.com. It is in stock :O) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jec3113 Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 I would try level D. Thats what we are doing, if it ever gets here, it is on backorder. I pulled the books up on amazon to look at the insides of the books. I just guessed based on the difficulty of the words in level D. ie. Lesson 1 words until, swift, bottles, pineapple, banner, hundren, fame, later, film, gallon, traffic, eleven, wild, silent, letters, dollar, barrel, twelve, hammer, seven. lesson 22 words appointed, boiling, broiling, crayon, destroyed, disappoint, disloyal, displays, employ, fray, noises, praised, railroad, royaloty, soybean, spoiled, sprain, swaying, voices, waist. Sometimes the words seem easy, but the lessons can be challenging. There are a lot of phonics which is why I decided to go with this program. We are liking it alot so far. One child has had books for several weeks (level E), the level D student book for my third grader is not here yet, but I have the teacher book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jec3113 Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 I have no idea why that posted twice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aready Posted September 28, 2009 Author Share Posted September 28, 2009 Thanks for the responses! I also didn't know the website you gave me either for books! I'm such a newbie! Can't believe it is backordered for so long on amazon! yikes! Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdeveson Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 I have no idea why that posted twice... :001_smile: Gremlins! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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