mommatomany Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 DD is in 2nd grade. We didn't do any type of spelling program in K and in first grade used HOD and followed their weekly spelling lists. I would show her the card and she'd try and copy it, next day try it without seeing it, third day same idea except I'd use it in a sentence, etc. By Friday I'd just say the word and she'd write it. She did very well. Just this year, I noticed that if I ask her to spell a word or write a word that she hasn't seen or just hasn't seen she can't do it. I mean. REALLY can't do it. She cannot sound out to spell at all. I searched around and ended up buying R&S 2 for spelling. She's doing ok with the work but it has not taught her how to spell. I'm looking for a program that will teach her how to spell not just see words and spell them and then not retain the info later. I do have her using ETC to help with phonics and seeing words broken into different parts. Any suggestions are greatly welcomed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristenR Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 I can't speak highly enough about All About Spelling. It teaches you the rules and not just memorization. My dd5(almost 6) is not afraid to tackle words she hasn't seen before. Just the other day she attempted Astronomy and got it right the first time. I was Floored! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Spalding. It covers not only every aspect of spelling, but does it while including penmanship, capitalization and punctuation, and simple writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happycc Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Open and go for the most part. Multisensory. lots of review,with dictations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybear Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 http://www.spellingcity.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondeviolin Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 All About Spelling. It's just so expensive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laundrycrisis Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I just received the first two workbooks of the "How to Spell" series. I wanted a very plain spelling program (for an easily distracted kid) that is based on progressive phonics and that is extremely well organized. I also wanted it to be simple and affordable. I just got these today and I'm flipping through them - they look like exactly what I was after. And they are very affordable. The workbooks were $8-9 each and the teacher key for these two workbooks was about $5. I'm planning to use these along with the letter tiles I already have. I also found some practice sentences here: http://spencerlearning.com/ultimate-phonics/resources/free-word-lists.html It was a big pdf download but it looks like it will be very useful for dictation sentences for our older son. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommatomany Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 GREAT recommendations!!! I'll be checking into all of this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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