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Sequential Spelling with the DVD, reviews please


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Do you like it?

 

Our virtual charter school next year requires a spelling element to our lang. arts and this was a suggestion. Anything computer right now is golden for my kids. That's why I picked it. :)) But I would like to know the good, bad, and ugly before I run into them.

 

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We got the DvDs and DD does it independently. I ripped the videos and put them on an iPod for her to watch. She uses a regular spiral notebook with the pages folded vertically as her answer book. We had been doing AAS, and it is soooo parent time intensive that with three students using it I was going crazy! Having her in SS on DVD has been such a successful choice in our house!!!

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We tried to use it several years ago w/o the DVD and I hated it, never could get a good groove going with the lessons.

Then DS was dx with a number of issues related to penmanship, low muscle memory among them. We restarted this spelling program, this time with the DVD.

It has been wonderful for DS. He needs that repetition for his hands and brain to connect. He is also very, very visual - the way the words are shown in multi-colors on a plain background is perfect for him.

The voice is pleasant to listen to and very clear, in my opinion.

I don't have DS do the lessons by himself, but sit beside him and we check his work as he goes along.

 

Try out the demos, like PP suggested. That is what I did before I decided to purchase the DVD.

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We tried to use it several years ago w/o the DVD and I hated it, never could get a good groove going with the lessons.

Then DS was dx with a number of issues related to penmanship, low muscle memory among them. We restarted this spelling program, this time with the DVD.

It has been wonderful for DS. He needs that repetition for his hands and brain to connect. He is also very, very visual - the way the words are shown in multi-colors on a plain background is perfect for him.

The voice is pleasant to listen to and very clear, in my opinion.

I don't have DS do the lessons by himself, but sit beside him and we check his work as he goes along.

 

Try out the demos, like PP suggested. That is what I did before I decided to purchase the DVD.

I totally agree. We love the DVD because we put it on the iPad and she can use it when ever I am too busy with the other kids. We switched to SS because we were just skipping spelling because the curriculum we were using was so teacher intensive. So it works for us. I like having the option.

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We got the DvDs and DD does it independently. I ripped the videos and put them on an iPod for her to watch. She uses a regular spiral notebook with the pages folded vertically as her answer book. We had been doing AAS, and it is soooo parent time intensive that with three students using it I was going crazy! Having her in SS on DVD has been such a successful choice in our house!!!

I don't need the workbook?

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I don't remember if it is on the DvD itself or at the AVKO website where it shows you how to fold the sheets in a spiral notebook so that they don't see the previous day's list. Basically you fold the sheet vertically in half (creating a total of four columns, 2 on one side of the sheet and 2 on the back side of the sheet). Use the column you see, the next day you flip it over and use that side. The next day you reverse the fold and repeat. We have gone through a level and a half in a single spiral 70 sheet notebook (cost roughly $1).

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