73349 Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 For anybody using this, I've made a PDF of little cards (8 to a page) of the words for the first 107 lessons (except those that are for memorizing a poem, etc.). I think I'll do more eventually, but we're moving pretty slowly! If anybody's not familiar with Wheeler's, it's free online because it's beyond copyright--published in 1901. I like it because it mostly uses vowel sounds and rhyming words to organize the lessons. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 This is so helpful, thank you! I'm thinking of using Wheeler's with one of mine next year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Bump for the thursdayz. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 I don't think I knew there were 2 Wheeler spellers. I haven't looked at this curriculum in a long time. No one republishes it as a hardcopy, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 I don't think I knew there were 2 Wheeler spellers. I haven't looked at this curriculum in a long time. No one republishes it as a hardcopy, right? Amazon has what looks like the same thing in print, but it's $20+. I would think people would want to look inside (via archive or Google books) and then consider whether to print or buy it in print vs. using it on a Kindle or something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 I don't think I knew there were 2 Wheeler spellers. I haven't looked at this curriculum in a long time. No one republishes it as a hardcopy, right? Yeah, graded speller study of great authors and Elementary Speller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arliemaria Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 I am not familiar with this, but seems like something we would use. We are currently using Word Mastery and Dictation Day by Day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arliemaria Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Would you mind sharing how you do your lesson? Also what do you think of Dictation Day by Day. That seems really simple and something that gets done at the moment. I don't want to drop that, but this is a more in-depth examination of spelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted March 24, 2017 Author Share Posted March 24, 2017 (edited) I give DS the list of words and ask him to read them aloud to me and find a pattern. Then he has to write them in cursive. (Writing is hard for him, so he typically divides it among ~3 days.) I don't always do the same thing for practice afterward; sometimes he builds the words with Montessori letter cards, sometimes writing on a whiteboard, sometimes spelling aloud, etc. We're only on lesson 36 so far. DS's spelling has always been far behind his reading and his spoken vocabulary. He's making progress, though. We've used some DDbD, but it's too much writing for DS to do that and spelling (and other subjects), and he needs the systematic spelling right now. I do like it, though. Edited March 24, 2017 by whitehawk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Amazon has what looks like the same thing in print, but it's $20+. I would think people would want to look inside (via archive or Google books) and then consider whether to print or buy it in print vs. using it on a Kindle or something. The quality of that publisher is sometimes really bad and just a photocopy of a randomly chosen Google PDF. And they are no cheap. The only Google PDF I have seen has a smeared lesson 4, making me extra hesitant to purchase without seeing a sample. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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