Spelling With WWE??

[kolamum]

Do you add spelling when using WWE?

 

I have a student who may or may not be a natural speller. Words he's seen & spelled often he spells fine, but then there are other words he attempts to spell phonetically. We used SpellWell with him for a while, but honestly for him it was all about passing the test. I didn't like A Reason For Spelling, too much parental involvement. I also used Sequential Spelling with him last year for a time & he did well with it, but I found that he wasn't always correcting his words when I told him to thus he learned to spell an entire lesson wrong. If we used spelling that's probably what we'd go with because it's what we have. ;)

 

Anyway, what do you do/use?

[boscopup]

I use a separate spelling program, but my son isn't a natural speller. He's a good speller, once he has learned a word, but if he's never written it before, it could end up looking like anything! :D

 

I use R&S Spelling (unabashedly Christian), and I love that it's thorough and independent. I think if you use Sequential Spelling, you'll just need to watch him carefully for each word and make sure everything is correct before giving him the next word. Sounds like a kid that isn't ready to be independent with that particular curriculum. ;)

[sueh16]

All About Spelling is a very good program. That's what we use, but I must admit that we don't get to it every day, because it is time consuming. It does do a great job of teaching the rules of spelling, though.I found that my dd, who is a phonetic speller, did fine with WWE until level 3, when she didn't know how to spell some of the words that were in the dictations. I ended up writing the hard words on a sticky note and letting her use it, so she wouldn' t get bogged down while trying to write the dictation.

 

Sue

[kolamum]

Oh Boscopup, no he's not mature enough to be left on his own to do anything in those regards! Sadly I was sitting at the table & didn't notice till the lesson was half over that he'd messed it up! I'm not sure if he's a natural speller or not, but I will say, like your son, once he knows a word he's fine. Which is why I'm wondering if WWE will be enough. He's still quite young. This week we did the lesson in book 2 that has the sentence about not letting flattery catch you off your guard. He did ask for verification on a few of the words, but he had them mostly right. I was impressed after only using it for copywork 1 day. Maybe what I'll do is give it another week or two & see how we go & then add it in then. Or, I could pull out The Natural Speller & use that with him.

 

Sue, I've heard very wonderful thinks about AAS, but it's just too teacher intensive for me. Sequential Spelling is what we've used with our other child & we really love it. He's made such amazing progress with it & it's easy to fit in every day. We're only in book 2, & the child using it often wrinkles his nose at writing. He's not complained at all about WWE which is a beautiful thing. I debated using Spelling Wisdom with him, but i had a feeling he'd balk. I think I'll keep a close eye on what he's doing and perhaps make smaller spelling lists if I feel he needs it. I don't want to see him lacking in an area he shouldn't be, but at the same time.. I dunno, I have a feeling I should pop him into Sequential Spelling.. What to do, what to do..

 

:lol:

[redsquirrel]

My older son is a fairly good speller. I did use a spelling program (spelling workout)when using WWE but it was more from a sense of duty than anything else. We stopped spelling in 6th grade and moved on to vocabulary study with 'vocabulary from the classical roots'

 

Now, my younger son is not a particularly good speller (has speech problems as well) and we are using R&S spelling while using WWE. R&S spelling is more rigorous, because I can tell we are going to need it.

[JennyCook]

Well, I'm pretty new to homeschooling but we've been doing WWE and the spelling workout books. That along with keeping a list of all the words they spell wrong and creating our own spelling lists has been enough for us. WWE has been interesting. I started my 5th and 4 th grader in book 4 and it was WAY to hard for them. So I bought book 3. But now I'm thinking I should buy book 2 and start there.....ugh. Oh well, they'll all get used eventually I guess.

 

[skeeterbug]

I think many who want something like AAS but more independent like r&s. It sounds like it teaches spelling rules similar to AAS. If he knows the rules that would hopefully really cement it for him.

 

Have you tried Spelling City? You can make up spelling lists for him, he can practice and play games using those words.

[Miss Tick]

We have been using Spelling Power. It is one book to use through all the grades. If he spells it right on the test he doesn't study it, if not there is a straight forward 10-step study outline. As written, if dc miss three words we stop there and they study them. Then the next time we retest the missed words and move on. There is a spelling rule for each group of words, although I haven't been emphasizing them yet. I have some quibbles with the lists, but I love that spelling just takes 15 min and the program doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles.