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A Spelling Program that’s worth the purchase price

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All About Spelling isn’t a – yawn! – workbook method of learning spelling.   Instead, All About Spelling is a hand-on spelling program that will interest every kid in your bunch, as it has in ours…

Using All About Spelling in our schoolroom

The All About Spelling program is logical and organized enough for even me to figure out and use easily with children at three different levels (grades 7, 5, and 3. Our little gal, above, just gets to absorb this year).  The system uses letter tiles (pictured above) and flashcards to teach spelling.

We do all sorts of educational reviews for Freely Educate, and while we only post reviews of products that we think are good enough for at least someone, we don’t always keep the products to use in our own little school. All About Spelling, however, definitely will be staying at home in our schoolroom.  It is solving our problem of poor spellers (they are so very phonetic!) while making the effort as painless as possible for the teacher (me).

Here is a little more about the All About Spelling program from the publishers:”All About Spelling is your clear action plan for teaching spelling. Designed for effective, stress free teaching, the series progresses in a logical, sequential order. Through direct instruction, students learn exactly what they need to know in order to spell well.

The All About Spelling program brings together three pathways to learning – auditory (hearing), visual (seeing), and kinesthetic (touching).  This multisensory approach, combined with a built-in review system and reinforcement activities, ensures that students retain what they learn and understand how to apply it in practical situations.”

Go to the All About Spelling site to learn more about the program and to order a free report called, “The 20 Best Tips for Teaching Spelling.”

Note:  Since we are just now starting out with All About Spelling, we started even our big 13yo 7th grader in Level One.  He’s whizzing through it, as he should, but the reinforcement of the basics is good for him as well as for his 11yo, 5th grade sister.  Our 8yo (3rd grader) also is doing Level One, at a much slower pace.

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  2. Hey, wow, that spelling program looks cool! I am heading over to the website to check it out. My 7 yr old would love this!!!! So would I!

  3. I was able to go look through the articles, and this one definitely has been the most helpful so far:
    What doesn’t work in teaching spelling.
    It outlines several things I do not like about the current spelling program I am using, and gives a couple of very good examples/substitute rules.

  4. this looks perfect for my son. hes almost 10 and really loves it when there are several things he can touch and move around. thanks for the givaway!

  5. oh, there are several articles im interested in reading, but i think ill start with
    ‘tactile ways to practice spelling’
    and then move onto the homeschool article and then and then……

  9. An article that was extremely helpful to me on the All About Spelling website was Spelling Review: Making it Stick. It talks about how to get spelling words, or anything for that matter, into the long term memory of your child. It suggests much review and repitition until the child gets it and can recall it without thinking much about it. This will be very helpful in our home school.

  16. This would be especially helpful with me and my baby. So often he has issues with spelling and reading. I want one. please

  29. This sounds like a wonderful program for spelling. I like the hands on approach. Thanks for doing these give aways to give us all a chance to review new stuff!

  30. This looks awesome!! My daughter is very hands on and would really benefit from this!

  31. This looks like a fantastic spelling program! Would love to win this for my daughter. We’ve used several different spelling programs but haven’t found one that we really love.

  33. I have been wanting to try this with my son but haven’t found the funds to change curriculum yet 🙂 He’s nine so we would probably be moving through pretty quickly and I will probably have to go ahead and get a couple of levels instead of spreading it out over a longer period of time. Thanks for the chance to win the first one!

  35. My ist grader that I homeschool would love this ..he gets sooooo bored of worksheets and stuff..he loves to do hands on things and this would be great.I have the perfect spot to put it where he can practice anytime..thanks Angel

  37. I am having much difficulty in teasching my 8 year old to spell & read. He knows the sounds & most of the letter blends but can’t seem to put them together real well. I believe the way this program is put together will really help him. Also my 11 yr old has some trouble remembering too. Thanks so much for the chance to winn as I could never afford to get any of these wonderfull programs. I do all my teaching on my own merrit, & a few free books givin by friends.

  38. Perfect for my hands on child. If he can’t be hands on boy is it difficult for him. Thanks for the opportunity.
    Casey

  40. OMG – This looks fabulous! Maybe this is what I need to get through to my ds who is more of a visual learner. Spelling is just our worst subject.

  44. This looks great! What a blessing if it would really help my son to spell. Thanks for the opportunity.

  56. Articles on Teaching Spelling – They all sound so good but I think Challenges in Teaching Spelling (because I spend so much time making lists up) and Spelling Activities for Practicing skills – because flashcards are boring 😉

  58. Oh how I’d love to have this for my 5 and 7 year old girls. They are all about learning right now and this would just lift their moods and spirits when it comes to learning…
    Please count me in!!!

  62. My oldest has dyslexia and really struggles with spelling. This would help him as well as all his siblings.

  71. I have been using Phonics Road to Reading and Writing, which I have been very happy with, but it is quite expensive. AAS looks like it uses the same concepts, but at a fraction of the price. I hope I can give it a try! Thanks!

  74. The article “What Doesn’t Work” was very interesting….nailed some of my problems with our current spelling program.

  78. I really liked the article on “Tactile Ways to Practice Spelling”. I really like the idea of putting pudding, glue or shaving cream in a baggy. We will be using this idea this week.
    Thank you Lori for sharing this!!

  79. This sounds perfect for my son… he is a very inquisitive four year old and is always asking, “mom how do you spell____________?”!
    The beginner reader level is the perfect time to start forming correct and positive spelling habits.
    Thank you again for such great offerings!

  82. My children struggle with sounding out large words while reading. The article most helpful for us would be Syllables and spelling.

  83. Having 3 girls in grades 5, 4 and 3 who are wonderful readers but terrible spellers is a challenge. But this system looks like it will fix that problem!!

  88. One thing I can say we have been lacking in our homeschool is spelling. Everything I have tried seems to not work for us. This looks great! I don’t usually win these kinds of contest but figure eventually I will, lol!

  93. My 3rd grader is very phonetic too so of course much of his spelling follows suit. I would love to see if this could help us.

  94. I just checked out the website and the article about how to teach spelling in a homeschool had a lot of great pointers. I especially like the fact that they are not pushing their product, they just tell you what you should be looking for in a spelling curricullum and how to use which ever one you choose to get the best outcome.

  96. Interesting. My son just participated in a spelling bee last evening, and I was thinking on how I could streamline and logically present a spelling guidance system to him – he too is phonetic, which is good, but it seems to not compute when words are, well, unphonetic. Sign us up!

  97. Wow, I just looked through a few of the articles on the website, and the one about what doesn’t work while teaching spelling really jumped out at me. This is exactly what we are seeing in our kids! I used to be a ‘formal’ school teacher, and all of these things mentioned in that article are exactly what we were trained to do to teach spelling. Now I am really excited about this opportunity to win this curriculum. Thanks Lori!

  98. I want one! This would so help everyone here from the 17 yr old who phonetically spells to my 4 yr old who is learning sight words! Ages inbetween? 16, 12, 10, 9 and two 3 year olds!

  100. I wennt to the All About SPelling site and checked out the articles. The one I am most interested in was “How TO Correct Spelling Mistakes”. My kids can spell during lessons great but when it comes to using those words in their own writing the knowledge flies out the window!

  103. 5 Ways to Handle Misspelled Rules would definately help out around here. I am a spelling Nazi and for some reason it did not rub off on everyone else! lol

  107. I think the article “Tactile Ways to Practice Spelling” would be a great help to me. I plan to read it before bed tonight.
    Yep – I’d really love to win this program!
    Thanks!

  110. My second grader LOVES spelling and would love this set. She is pretty good at it, but doesn’t care for the workbook type approach, so something like this would be ideal!

  114. All of their articles are pretty good, I ended up reading through them all:). If I have to choose one, I would say that the “What works in teaching spelling” article seems to give a pretty good concise guideline to start from. I hope I win this program, but if not, I would say there is a pretty good chance I will end up buying it!

  119. I’ve actually been receiving their e-mails for little spelling tips to “observe” their methods before purchase but to win win one would be GREAT!

  122. What to do when poor spelling affects your child’s performance in other school subjects.
    This is the article I am interested in.

  127. I was just looking at the articles, and the article about spelling activities for kinesthetic learners has lots of ideas that look like they will be really helpful for my family!

  129. Oh, yeah! I’m really hoping to win this and put it into practice with my dd. Thanks for the chance to win!

  130. This caught my attention, since we’ve tried many other programs and my 14yo still struggles with spelling. Maybe this is our answer. Hope I win. Thank you for the offer.