Guest lahmeh Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 3rd/4th grade Natural Speller Get's very upset with wrong answers Not teacher intensive What would you use? TIA :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Twain Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Not many people here use Spelling Power, but I am very happy with it. It takes five minutes of my time per child. The child does additional practice exercises by himself. I think it is good for a natural speller in that it has word lists up through high school level. There is a placement test which tells you where to start in the program. With Spelling Power, you don't have to decide which level to buy because there is only one book which you can use for all of your kids from first grade through high school. We use a white board for the spelling tests. Wrong answers can be immediately and easily corrected. That may be easier on the mind for a kid who doesn't like to make mistakes. Just an idea... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionfamily1999 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Spelling Workout That's what we use and it works for us :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloggermom Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 For 3rd grade I would recommend Spelling Workout C and then Spelling Workout D for 4th grade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embassy Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Hmm..maybe Spelling City with word lists compiled from misspelled words in her daily work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armom Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Just tagging along to figure out the same question. I have two natural spellers and one ok speller. So far we have not been doing a spelling program, but feel like I need to do something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aludlam Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 I'm a big fan of AAS, but it's very teacher intensive. If I were going to switch to something else, I think it would be R&S spelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Blue House Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 I agree with the other posters re: Spelling Workout. We started the year with Spelling Power and my DS had a meltdown every time he misspelled a word. HE is a natural speller and rarely missed words, but when he did he would completely lose it b/c missing a word means having to do the extra practice exercises. We just switched to Spelling Workout and he completed the first four lessons last week. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iucounu Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 With a natural speller, you don't really need a curriculum. You should consider training your child out of the bad attitude re: wrong answers as a first step, and then just locate some spelling lists and go through them quickly. You can also train your child to pick up spellings even more easily as he/she reads, and do spelling work rarely if at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyLittleBears Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Spelling Workout :p :iagree: This is a solid spelling program, not teacher intensive, and very inexpensive.(you don't need the teacher's edition) When used it, we did one less per week:1 or 2pages a day 4xper week with a test on that weeks words. It is perfect for a natural speller, not so great for kids who are dyselxic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilka Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Last year, in 3rd grade, we used Blend Phonics and this year, we're using McGraw Hill. Both are free, downloadables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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