“Simply Spelling”- Will this be it?

Posted by Coral on October 6, 2009

Ok so my idea of using P’s creative writing stories as a place to get her spelling list from, was a flop. Sometimes I would pick words that turned out to be just plain too hard for her. So she still does a cw story ever so often, but I do not use it for spelling purposes. I tried Rod & Staff’s 2^nd grade spelling (since we love their English), for a few weeks. P found it to be too easy, and boring. I finally decided that I don’t like spelling LISTS! So after much searching; I found this book that uses the copywork/dictation method for spelling:

http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=1490908

P copies  the  selection 3–4 days a week (along with the assignments and recommendation in the book for each day),then on the 4^th or 5^th day I dictate the passage to her. We have used it for 6 weeks now and P hasn’t gotten a single word wrong! Plus she is getting all the capitalization, and punctuation (including commas) correct! She likes doing things this way because it combines her copywork and spelling into one, making less work for her (and me). It is building her confidence in spelling since there are always words that she knows along with the words she doesn’t. Seeing the words in context of writing also helps a lot. Now, I am not going to say we will do things this way forever, but for now it’s working. However, we’ll see what happens over the next few weeks  .

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