Practice spelling through every learning style! AVKO's Sequential Spelling spelling teaches word families through auditory (hearing the word), visual (seeing the correct word), kinesthetic (tracing the correct word) and oral (saying the word) channels. Children are allowed to have to the freedom to guess and learn from their mistakes, as tests are seen as opportunities to learn from student self-corrected mistakes, rather than a method of evaluation. By teaching words in word families, students will be learning and using vocabulary not normally learned until introduced in much later grades, giving them a head-start in much of their reading. Students learn to recognize patterns in words, allowing them to de-code and spell words they may have never encountered before. Detailed teacher instructions are given, and are followed by word lists to be used in the same format for the rest of the year, as well as homophone & heteronyms lists, evaluation tests with fill-in-the-blank sentences and 60-day periodical written tests for parents who feel more comfortable with some grading system. Book 1 teaches word families in eight-week blocks before moving on to the next; review is included throughout. Book one teaches the word families 'in', 'ee', 'up', 'ood', 'at', 'ove', 'ow', 'ay', 'ey', 'own', 'arch', 'en', 'et', ot', 'ime', 'and', 'ight' and more, building to words such as 'beginnings', 'misunderstood', and 'loveliest'. Volume levels do not necessarily correspond with grade levels; Volume 1 may be begun as early as Grade 2, or used for older students. The Student Response Book is helpful as a book to write student responses in. |
