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Spelling Thoughts

In homeschooling, there are so many different ways to approach spelling.  Many people choose a line of yearly spelling workbooks that their children work through each year.  Others use Spelling Power as a guide. Last year, I wrote a post with my spelling plan.  I use Spelling Power as my foundation for my oldest daughter.  For the words that she misspells, I use a plan similar to what my students used when I taught in public school.  Spelling Power includes a long explanation of how to teach spelling in the beginning of the book (in very small font!).  This program has worked wonderfully for my oldest daughter who rarely gets a word wrong from the lists. My second daughter is a different speller and so she needs a different approach to spelling to help her.  I wrote this post   in August as I prepared to tackle spelling in a different way this year with her.  Much of it has been successful, but some of it has not.  I discovered as we...

My Phonics/Spelling Plan

My Phonics/Spelling Plan!  Okay, well, this is my plan.  No, I haven't used it yet.  My daughter is entering 3rd grade, but she needs work on her encoding and spelling, so this is the plan for both that I'm going to implement this coming school year with her.   This plan is the result of my reading and research.  Many of these strategies are what I gleaned from reading about spelling difficulties in many online documents and learning about how children encode language.  I listed some of what I read in a previous post if you're curious. :) Pre-Spelling Assessment:  Testing a Student’s Encoding Processes 1.     Test beginning blends. 2.     Complete tests on phonics and phonological awareness http://www.paec.org/itrk3/files/pdfs/readingpdfs/cooltoolsall.pdf 3.     Design a spelling and a reading program to remediate student’s weaknesses.       I made a grid worksheet and tested her to see if s...