vaquitita Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I can never decide if I should worry about my daughter's spelling or not. :D Here is a note she wrote to herself last summer, right before she turned 9. wotr the plant evre day!!! remebr that remebr onle a litll bit av wotr eth tim (each time) the plant is ovre thar now wotr the plant!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReadingMama1214 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I'm not an expert and my daughter is much younger. But the absence of vowels in many words would raise a flag for me. Has she done a spelling program? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2vikha Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Has she improved now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 How long has she been reading fluently? For many kids spelling comes with lots of reading exposure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I'm with you about the worrying. My now 9yo could have written that last summer. I have seen improvement this school year, but she still tends to skip vowels. We are using R&S spelling 3. From all I've read, it's fairly normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
................... Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I would be a little concerned because my very very poor speller spelled similar to that at that age. I would put her into apples and pears by Prometheus's trust half-pace immediately because you could catch a problem before it really goes downhill rather than remediating later. I wouldn't use a normal spelling program because the student will memorize the words but the student will eventually get stuck and by then you'll have waited longer than was good for her. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourisenough Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 That is exactly how my DD7's writing looked until we began using AAS. She was an early and strong reader, so I was very surprised that she wasn't a natural speller (like my older three were). With explicit, rules-based spelling work for 20-minutes daily since last spring (about 9 months), she is improving dramatically. If you're not already using one, I would definitely recommend using an O-G-based spelling program with her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaquitita Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share Posted January 29, 2017 (edited) She's only been reading fluently for less than a year. Right now she can read rescue princesses, the littles, horse diaries, stuff like that. I think her spelling has improved, but it's hard to say because she doesn't write on her own. She knows she isn't spelling things right and is a perfectionist. I've used reading lessons thru literature with her for spelling, book one last year, and we started book two this year... But the number of different phonograms and all the different sounds they make, well theres just so many she began to melt down. She's aware there's several ways to spell each sound and just shuts down because she doesn't remember. I've been using spelling you see level b part 2 with her for the past month and I already see her doing much better with the dictation, she is now willing and able to try a couple different spellings till it looks right. And she's spelling almost everything right (the dictation comes after chunking and copying the passage three times). I was thinking of trying RLTL again next year, but I don't think it has the repetition she needs. With everything she learns, she does so in a slow, gradual way, not really 'owning' it till she's repeated something many times. It would be nice if spelling you see would be enough for her, it certainly has lots of repetition since you work on the same passage every day for a week. If she used it for the next five years (based on the current number of levels) she should certainly be able to spell common words. But she doesn't really make leaps applying one thing to every similar thing, and if I'm going to end up having to do something like AAS or apples and pears, then I'd rather start sooner so we can get it over with. Lol Edited January 29, 2017 by vaquitita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 This looks a lot like my daughter's spelling a year ago (as a 9 year old, fairly new reader). I think I even started a thread about it. We just kept plugging away with Apples & Pears, and her spelling is soooo much improved now. A&P might have had something to do with it, but really...I think just becoming a stronger reader had the most impact on her spelling. The better she reads, the more words she's exposed to, the stronger her spelling has gotten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaquitita Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 (edited) Ok I had her write two of those sentences again just now... Water the plant evry day Remember only a little bit of water eech time She used her SYS method of writing words a few different ways to see which looked right. It took her five tries to get water, three to get to evry, six tries to get only, and eech she knew was wrong but didn't know how to fix it. That seems like a pretty good improvement after just 6 weeks of SYS. Edited January 30, 2017 by vaquitita 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 She's only been reading fluently for less than a year. Right now she can read rescue princesses, the littles, horse diaries, stuff like that. I think her spelling has improved, but it's hard to say because she doesn't write on her own. She knows she isn't spelling things right and is a perfectionist. I've used reading lessons thru literature with her for spelling, book one last year, and we started book two this year... But the number of different phonograms and all the different sounds they make, well theres just so many she began to melt down. She's aware there's several ways to spell each sound and just shuts down because she doesn't remember. I've been using spelling you see level b part 2 with her for the past month and I already see her doing much better with the dictation, she is now willing and able to try a couple different spellings till it looks right. And she's spelling almost everything right (the dictation comes after chunking and copying the passage three times). I was thinking of trying RLTL again next year, but I don't think it has the repetition she needs. With everything she learns, she does so in a slow, gradual way, not really 'owning' it till she's repeated something many times. It would be nice if spelling you see would be enough for her, it certainly has lots of repetition since you work on the same passage every day for a week. If she used it for the next five years (based on the current number of levels) she should certainly be able to spell common words. But she doesn't really make leaps applying one thing to every similar thing, and if I'm going to end up having to do something like AAS or apples and pears, then I'd rather start sooner so we can get it over with. Lol Reading and spelling are two different skills. It is possible to read well but not spell well. My go-to is almost always Spalding. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Her spelling certainly seems to have improved a lot in a few months! The first post would definitely have worried me from a nine year old - but if, as you say, she was a very new reader at the time then it's perhaps less worrisome. And the new sentences are certainly a lot less scary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 My dds spelling looks similar and she's nearly eight and reading at a similar level. My sons spelling improved dramatically with his reading level but I did end up doing a level of apples and pears which helped heaps. If dd doesn't improve by the end of the year she will be doing all about spelling. She has the hates for apples and pears unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knitgrl Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 I don't have as much experience as you do, but fwiw.....my dd is a strong reader, but a poor speller. We started AAS 1 about the middle of last year and just about were finished with the book by June. Then we took six weeks off, and started school back up in August. It took until October for her to get back to where she was in June. This year, we will continue spelling all through summer vacation in order to avoid the slide, though probably just doing it every other day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourisenough Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 I don't have as much experience as you do, but fwiw.....my dd is a strong reader, but a poor speller. We started AAS 1 about the middle of last year and just about were finished with the book by June. Then we took six weeks off, and started school back up in August. It took until October for her to get back to where she was in June. This year, we will continue spelling all through summer vacation in order to avoid the slide, though probably just doing it every other day.Yep. Spelling will be a year-round pursuit for my DD7. Like you, we may do it every other day or 3x per week, but we definitely won't take more than a week off for any reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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