LNC Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 My children are both visual learners and natural spellers. I have used CLP Building Spelling Skills workbooks and just the spelling lists in CLE LA. When they have a list of words to work with and study each week they make 100% on their quizzes. They also spell pretty well in daily work, but when they make an error in writing or letter writing I tend to panic and reconsider my approach. Using something like How to Teach Spelling instead. BUT, my daughter and I looked through my middle and high school papers last week. It was a blast and also in the pre word processing days. I made some pretty stupid spelling mistakes myself! We laughed so hard! So, I'm thinking I may just keep going with the CLE word lists and reading a lot. What do you think... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 If your kids are in 5th and 7th grade as your signature indicates, and are good spellers, I would not see a need to use a formal spelling program. We have not done any formal spelling since I pulled the kids out of school in 5th and 6th grades, respectively. They spell just fine. I correct the rare occasional mistake as it comes up in their writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethben Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 I've been taking the words that my ds in 5th grade spells wrong on papers and having that be his spelling list each week. I'll give him the words everyday. If he spells it write, it gets a check. Three checks and I cross off the word. If he spells it wrong, he has to write it three times. Beth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ester Maria Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 If they are reasonably good spellers, simply correct the mistakes as they occur, you do not necessarily need a formal program at this age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Both my children are natural spellers. We use the word lists from SPelling Power to find any words they don't know how to spell, and if I find spelling mistakes on their written work, I put them on the board and they need to learn them by next week's quiz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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