Anybody here use Noah Webster's Blue Back Speller

[Susie in MS]

as a spelling guide in place of wkbks? Do you see any problem with this? If you used it, how did you?

[NoPlaceLikeHome]

See my posts in this thread as well as any posts by ElizabethB:)

 

I recommend making a lap-size white board or chalk board your friend:D

 

http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=154227

[Susie in MS]

Thanks! Will do .

[Amy Jo]

:bigear: -- I'm planning to use it - I avoid workbooks.

[pageta]

We're using McGuffey's Eclectic Speller in place of workbooks. I just go through half a lesson with ds6 each week. At first the words were all phonetic (short vowels) so they were easy. Long vowels are harder because there is more than one way to make a vowel long. So I have him read the words, then I spell them aloud and he repeats me the first day. I have him read them, then I have him spell them aloud the 2nd day (spelling bee style). Then the third and fourth days I just say them aloud and he spells them. Sometimes I have him write them for copywork. It just all depends on how he's doing with a lesson. If we need more time on a lesson, we take it. But generally we do a half lesson a week. If he doesn't know what a word means, he asks; if I don't know, we look it up. This method is working quite well for us.