The Writing Road to Reading

[justamouse]

I am kicking myself. I really should have spent more time teaching the kids phonetic rules, and I didn't and now I have to because I'm starting to see some reading difficulties that would have easily been dealt with had I taught them the rules :glare::glare::glare:. They get to three and four syllable words and are stymied, and that's my fault. If they knew the rules they'd be able to break them down and work through them.

 

So I'm sitting here this morning, writing out index cards with the rules on them and I'm wondering if anyone has/knows a Writing Road to Reading tutorial to make this easier because this book makes my head spin.

 

I taught them the phonograms, I taught them cursive first, but we stopped at the notebooks. (I don't like the notebooks)

 

If you taught TWRTR or phonetic rules, can you share how? With pictures and perhaps a tutorial?

[justamouse]

No one? :bigear:

 

Ellie?

 

 

*sniff*

[Parrothead]

C-Post your question in the curriculum forum. ;)

[Ellie]

Spalding. The method is Spalding. The manual is WRTR. :) Than manual *is* the tutorial for teaching the Spalding Method. It's all in there, everything you need to know. I promise. :D

 

You're making it too hard on yourself. There's no reason that you should be writing index cards with rules on them. When you get to the spelling words, you dictate the word, quote the rule if there is one, the child repeats it back and writes the rule number next to the word.

 

There are only 27 rules.

[Onceuponatime]

Wanda Sanseri used to have a book that was scripted for easy use of the Writing Road to Read. I think it is out of print now. You might be able to find one.

[Ellie]

Wanda Sanseri used to have a book that was scripted for easy use of the Writing Road to Read. I think it is out of print now. You might be able to find one.

I used to own that book, but got rid of it because she made some fairly significant changes to the Spalding Method. Which is why she went ahead and wrote her own method (well, her own method spun off Spalding. It is what it is.).

[Onceuponatime]

I used to own that book, but got rid of it because she made some fairly significant changes to the Spalding Method. Which is why she went ahead and wrote her own method (well, her own method spun off Spalding. It is what it is.).

 

 

I used to own it too. I liked the changes.

 

I got rid of mine when I switched to 100 Easy Lessons and Explode the Code. :D

[justamouse]

Spalding. The method is Spalding. The manual is WRTR. :) Than manual *is* the tutorial for teaching the Spalding Method. It's all in there, everything you need to know. I promise. :D

 

You're making it too hard on yourself. There's no reason that you should be writing index cards with rules on them. When you get to the spelling words, you dictate the word, quote the rule if there is one, the child repeats it back and writes the rule number next to the word.

 

There are only 27 rules.

 

OK, I'm going back and doing this now. I could KICK myself.

[Colleen in NS]

this book makes my head spin.

 

I taught them the phonograms, I taught them cursive first, but we stopped at the notebooks. (I don't like the notebooks)

 

You probably have the 5th edition, white copy, no? That one is soooooooo thick and overwhelming. If you can get your hands on the red or teal copy, your life will be easier.

 

And, do the notebooks. You stopped just one step short of success. :D

 

Also, if you are just using WRTR for spelling/reading, don't bother with the chapters on composition and grammar - you can use other programs for those topics.