Link:  All About Spelling Page

Schools have gotten lazy about teaching spelling these days.  Many of the spelling programs start off teaching some basic phonics but reach a point where they just “assign” spelling words and expect children to memorize the spelling, do some worksheets, and pass their spelling tests each week.  Lots of children cannot learn this way and as they get behind in spelling, the teachers just push them further ahead as a group instead of back-tracking and really “TEACHING” children how to spell.

When we began to have these troubles with our 8 year old son, we realized he was failing his spelling tests in the third grade and couldn’t spell words he should have gotten in the second grade.  He had no strategies being taught and was just expected to memorize the words.  As an educator myself, I researched to find the best spelling program available that would use a multi-sensory approach, teach rules and strategies, and build a foundation in spelling.  I found this in the All-About-Spelling Curriculum.

The first day I read through the program, I realized there were things I didn’t even know about spelling.  When in school, I was taught that the “magic or silent” E would make a vowel say it’s name as in the word “time.”  AAS teaches other uses of the “magic E” – for instance, it is used to make the g say it’s soft sound in a word like “large,” it also stops a word from ending in a u or a v, like “twelve.”  Did you know that English words do not ever end in a v or u?  Lots of these concepts are taught in a comprehensive, multi-sensory approach to spelling.

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