AAR 4 or ETC 6&7 to finish phonics?

[Katydid]

My dd is going into 4th grade next year and is slightly dyslexic (no formal eval, just suspected). She has made good strides with her reading this year, but I would say she is reading at about a 3rd grade level. Her spelling, however, is really behind. We have slowly been doing AAS (she's about 1/4 of the way through level 2) but it's just not working for us. It's too fiddly and I hadn't really been making it a priority, as I wanted to increase her reading fluency before we concentrated too much on spelling.

 

So this year, I want to switch to Apples & Pears spelling for her, but I also want her to finish up a phonics program. She has gone through All About Reading levels 1-3 (she's almost finished with level three) and Explode the Code levels 1-6. She will be doing Oak Meadow 4 this year, so I thought doing AAR 4 as well might be too much for her. She doesn't love the readers from AAR as much as I hoped she would and the literary stuff they cover I think would be covered well enough in OM. 

 

I thought about just doing getting the TM and activity book for AAR4 and just do the non-reader lessons to let her finish out the phonics learning (she does love the activities!). But then I think that is awfully expensive and wasteful if we're only using half the program. So then I thought she could just finish up the last two ETC books because she really does like those and I think she learned just as much form them as she did from AAR. But I wasn't sure if they covered the same stuff as AAR4... syllabication, de-coding larger words, etc. 

 

I don't want to overload her.... I know the amount of work in A&P and OM will be challenging enough for her. But I also don't want to leave her with an incomplete phonics education and have her struggling when she gets to higher levels of reading.

 

Help?