Sweet Home Alabama Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 Would you chose one of these or use both in 8th grade? We used Spelling Power for 2 years, but I don't feel like we learned spelling rules adequately. We changed to Megawords this year to learn them. I want to use Jensen's in order to learn roots. Other 8th grade classes seem to be looking like this: Lial's Alg. I CPO Physical Science TPS English I for composition Analytical Grammar Season 3 Megawords and/or Jensen's Voc. LLfrLotR (orally with ds gd.6) Medieval History Rosetta Stone Spanish year 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlotteb Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 I've only used Megawords, but have to say that I LOVE it! I have used books 1-7 with DS, 8th grade and am now using book 1 with DD, 5th grade. I love the way it teaches advanced phonics and then applies it to spelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greta Lea Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 I mean, HATED with a passion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Home Alabama Posted October 26, 2010 Author Share Posted October 26, 2010 I mean, HATED with a passion. Wow.... Will Megawords be enough for vocabulary? For an 8th grader? I love it for spelling. I have just always thought we would need somethig for vocabulary to start preparing for PSAT, ACT, and/or SAT testing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Home Alabama Posted October 26, 2010 Author Share Posted October 26, 2010 Anyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKim Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 My oldest has done both. She did Jensen's in 8th and actually loved it. She said the built in repetition actually taught her to recognize the roots in her other reading and figure out what new words mean. I will be using it with her sister in a couple years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Home Alabama Posted October 27, 2010 Author Share Posted October 27, 2010 My oldest has done both. She did Jensen's in 8th and actually loved it. She said the built in repetition actually taught her to recognize the roots in her other reading and figure out what new words mean. I will be using it with her sister in a couple years. Thanks, Kim! I've always been drawn to Jensen's Vocabulary, but I really am most interested in vocabulary that will prep us for those pesky high school tests. Maybe Jensen's isn't the best for that. So..... What do you all use for vocab test prep? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKim Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Thanks, Kim! I've always been drawn to Jensen's Vocabulary, but I really am most interested in vocabulary that will prep us for those pesky high school tests. Maybe Jensen's isn't the best for that. So..... What do you all use for vocab test prep? We are just doing our own thing with this site: http://majortests.com/word-lists/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holdoll Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Anyone else? Love Mega Words, but have not used Jensen's, so sorry no opinion there. I added Wordly Wise for the Vocabulary. I believe it's the same publisher as Mega Words. Educators Publishing Service. I purchased mine at Rainbow Resource. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Home Alabama Posted October 27, 2010 Author Share Posted October 27, 2010 Love Mega Words, but have not used Jensen's, so sorry no opinion there. I added Wordly Wise for the Vocabulary. I believe it's the same publisher as Mega Words. Educators Publishing Service. I purchased mine at Rainbow Resource. Thanks, Holdoll! I'm beginning to lean towards Megawords only. We definitely need the spelling practice, and I think we'll still have time for Jensen's or something similar for test prep in high school. I've read on TWTM about vocabulary, but I don't see anything that seems to be overwhelmingly popular..... well, MCT and Megawords maybe..... certainly not Jensen's. Some like it; some don't. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlotteb Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 IMO, a good idea to prepare for vocabulary on the SAT's is to use a roots program like English from the Roots Up. My son used it in concordance with Megawords. He took a standardized test two years ago and scored at upper high school level for vocabulary (he was in 6th grade at the time)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Home Alabama Posted October 27, 2010 Author Share Posted October 27, 2010 IMO, a good idea to prepare for vocabulary on the SAT's is to use a roots program like English from the Roots Up. My son used it in concordance with Megawords. He took a standardized test two years ago and scored at upper high school level for vocabulary (he was in 6th grade at the time)! Thank you, Charlotte! We have both sets of EftRU, and can definitely incorporate them. I used Vol. 1 with dc a couple of years ago, and we have not used Vol. 2 at all. They loved EftRU. We also have and enjoy playing Rummy Roots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrissySC Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 I use Megawords and love it too. Yet, you might want to look at this ... http://dynamichomeschool.com/Exponential-Learning.php This may be well suited for both of your needs. By breaking up the common roots, prefixes, suffixes, blah blah, the spelling is learned indirectly. If by the eighth, you have a bad speller. Evaluate how badly that spelling truly is. Can they spell a sound, even phonetically? Is it commonly misspelled words? Get the book and make lists (the book is like 5 dollars). Go vocabulary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Home Alabama Posted October 28, 2010 Author Share Posted October 28, 2010 I use Megawords and love it too. Yet, you might want to look at this ... http://dynamichomeschool.com/Exponential-Learning.php This may be well suited for both of your needs. By breaking up the common roots, prefixes, suffixes, blah blah, the spelling is learned indirectly. If by the eighth, you have a bad speller. Evaluate how badly that spelling truly is. Can they spell a sound, even phonetically? Is it commonly misspelled words? Get the book and make lists (the book is like 5 dollars). Go vocabulary. Thank you, Chrissy! I have seen this curriculum mentioned recently. I does look wonderful! I wouldn't say I have a bad speller at all..... yet, it is common to have misspelled words frequently. IOW every paragraph written has a couple or so words that are misspelled when I know she should know better. The problem might also be in the lack of proofing her work. If she proofed her work, she would be able to spot and correct most of her misspelled words. So, I think we just need another year of spelling practice and proof training. I am definitely still:bigear:. I appreciate all the input! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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