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 ours…
Our family receives all sorts of educational products to possibly review for Freely Educate, and while we only post reviews of products that we think are good, 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).
"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."
We want to give away a set of All About Spelling's Level One to one of you.
The winner's package will include:
- AAS Level One set (book and student Material Packet)
- Letter Tiles
- Phonogram Audio CD-ROM
All of that will be sent to one of you, shipped free, of course! (value: $56.90 and free s/h)
2009 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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This time, you may enter more than once! You get one entry per comment, but you may comment more than once by…
- Just leave a comment, saying you want one. That's easy!
- Visit All About Spelling, click on Articles (top of the home page), then come back here and tell us which of their article titles sound most helpful to what you're facing in your school.
- Blog about this giveaway on your blog or website then come back here and leave a link to the blog post so we can visit you.
- Tweet about this giveaway (copy your tweet to @freelyeducate).
- Facebook about this giveaway or join our Facebook fan page.
That's 5 ways to increase your chances of winning! You can enter up to 5 times. But, remember, you need to enter 5 separate times, because that makes it much easier for me to count up entries when I go to Random. org to select the winner.
More Rules, sigh:
- Click on "Comments" below* to leave your comment and other entries (separately, remember)
- The form will ask for your email address but only I will see it. Promise. And I never, ever spam.
- One winner will be selected randomly from the entries (comments) through Random.org's random number generator
- US entries only (head ducking; I'm sorry!) Yay! This giveaway is now open to U.K., Australian, and Canadian readers as well as U.S. readers!
- Deadline: Saturday, July 10th, at noon CST
Comment away! Who wants one?
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What works in teaching spelling sounds like a good article to me
Please enter me.
Please enter me in the drawing for All About Spelling!
I’ve heard good things about this program. Please enter me for the giveaway.
Sounds WONDERFUL for my struggling speller! Please enter me.
I joined your Facebook page too!
The article, “Teaching Spelling in Your Homeschool” sounds like it would be very helpful for me. I’m always looking for something new to try!
I want one 🙂
The AAS article about teaching Phonemic Awareness is great. This is a critical skill.
Thanks for hosting the giveaway.
Enter me in.
I posted about the giveaway on my blog here:
http://www.school4jesus.com/all-about-spelling-giveaway
Thanks for the chance to win!
I tweeted about the giveaway as well!
I posted about it on Facebook also.
Looks like a great program! Enter me, please.
Most of the articles look like ones I should read, LOL! The one that struck me right off as sounding most helpful is “Challenges in Teaching Spelling”.
We REALLY need a new spelling program that works.
I want this!!
My Kids could really use this. Thanks for offering us a chance to win it.
Five Ways to Handle Misspelled Words is a very helpful article.
My kids could really use this. Thanks for offering a chance to win it.
I’m dying to try this program!
I liked the ideas in the “Tactile Ways to Teach Spelling” article. They looked great for my kinesthetic learner!
I would love this…it would be perfect for my 5 yr. old this year:)
The article that could help me is: Developing Phonemic Awareness. My dd reads, but we never quite learned the sounds!
I joined your Facebook page and shared the giveaway! Thanks for posting!
we would like one!
Please enter me….I have been looking at this program for a long time.
teaching spelling in your homeschool is the article that looks most helpful to me at all about spelling website.
Looks neat. Please enter me.
I would love to win this! Thanks for all your information, by the way. I learn something new every day (as do my kids!).
I would like to be entered in this giveaway! Thanks
The article “Teaching Spelling in your Homeschool” has a lot of good tips that are helpful to me as a beginning homeschooling mom.
Oh, and I tweeted and I’m already a fan on Facebook. 😉
Our family would LOVE to try this! We struggle quite a bit in this area!
Kelly
It sounds like a winner. We would like one.
Thanks, Rachel
me, me, i want one!!
The AAS article that interested me the most was “Five Ways to Handle Misspelled Words”
Joined the FB fan page 🙂
please sign me up for the all about spelling giveaway
my one child really struggles with spelling. I saw the curriculum at the convention, but did not know enough about it. Would love to try this with my struggling speller
i really enjoy reading the different articles and how they help me in my homeschooling experience. Thanks so much
joined the facebook page
I want AAS! 🙂
This would be a wonderful program for my spelling challenged son! Enter me please! 🙂
Sounds great! Please put in an entry for me. Thank you~
I shared on Facebook too.
Awesome – I have heard so much about this program – I’d love one for my kiddos (5,6,7,&9)!!
Amy
Sounds like a good thing to have!
wah. Am UK based so can’t enter. Spelling is probably our biggest bugbear, my 10yo has real issues with it. Oh well, guess she’d have ended up with American style spelling anyway 😉
I’d like one! Thank you for the awesome giveaway!
Enter me!!!
This looks wonderful and I have heard such great things about it! Please enter us! Blessings, Stefanie
I would love to win this. Spelling seems to be a very weak spot in our family and maybe starting over with this will help us to get the basics down in a fun way!
Hello-
I would really love to win this !! with ten children this would be great 🙂
I’ve heard a lot about this program, and would love to enter the giveaway!
Lori –
As usual, your hard work makes all our homeschool lives easier. Thanks for the opportunity to win the spelling package. We’re interested!
Alice
The article titled “Homeschool Spelling” brought up a few things I didn’t think about, like lighting. 🙂
Posted on my fb page, too! Woot!
We’d love to try this. Please enter me!
Would love to use this to help my poor speller!
Looks great! Thanks!
Sounds like a good program. I’d love to give it a shot.
Boy, could I use this with Lydia! She has some processing issues and I need all the help I can get!!!
Developing Phonemic Awareness looks right up my alley!!
I would love to win this product.
I used level one this past year with my 12 year old. This is the first spelling program that made sense to me. I’m a poor speller and all the stuff we used in the past would not connect in my mind. This makes so much sense to me. My plan is to go through the whole program with her.
•Does Invented Spelling Have Its Place?
That article seems very interesting to me.
Thanks for the chance to win.
I just posted on my blog! Thanks for including me in the drawing!
I would love to win this!
Oh, I want one! 🙂
Shared on Facebook!
I’d love an entry for the AAS set! Thanks!
This article, “Teaching Spelling in Your Homeschool. Some things to consider for your homeschool program.” really pertains to me.
Sounds Awesome! Count me in!
Please enter me in the drawing for All About Spelling!
This would benefit my two boys SO MUCH! I’d love to have one!!
I’m adding a blog post here:
http://thisadventurelife.wordpress.com
This looks great! I want it! 🙂
I want one!
I think the Homeschool Spelling article looks fab.
Looks great! Here’s my entry!
I tweeted about the giveaway! (@MichellePotter)
I shared the giveaway on Facebook, and liked your Facebook page. 🙂
I would like to earn a free entry for the spelling program.
I want one
I would love to win All About Spelling! Please enter me.
This sounds like a good program for our family, I’d love to win it!
I’ve been eyeing this for a while and would love to get it FREE!
Hello!
Spelling activities for practicing skills sounds like it would be the most useful in our house! We need LOTS of practice! ;D
Thanks!
I like the article Orton Gillingham approach to teaching. I hear about this method all the time, but have never read any articles about the theories behind it.
This looks great; please enter me. Thanks!
Thank you for the opportunity to get this product.
I blogged about it! My blog is private, so I’m not sure that you will be able to check it. 🙂 I can e-mail an invite if necessary.
I want one!
“Six strategies for reviewing spelling” looks like something we can incorporate right away –
Thanks for the drawing.
How To Correct Spelling Mistakes.
Joined the facebook fan page.
I definitely, definitely would like to win this treasure!!!
I am already friends with Freely Educate on Facebook!!!
Spelling Review: Making It Stick article was definitely a good read for me right now! I am going to print it out to re-read!
Thanks for the chance to win!!!
The article about how to correct spelling mistakes was a great article for me!! Thanks!
I joined the Facebook fan page!! LOVE IT!!!
I tweeted…
I blogged, too!! (http://homeschoolingkidney.blogspot.com/)
I’d love this!
“Spelling Activities for Practicing Skills” sounds like some great help for my tactile learners.
Liked on Facebook.
I would like to enter to win!!
The “Developing Phonemic Awareness” article offered many great ideas that your curriculum suggests for developing phonemic awareness in young readers – I think this is a component that whole language leaves out that is necessary for proper development of reading skills.
Great news! UK, Aussie and Canadian readers can enter this giveaway along with Americans. Thanks for writing, Jax. You prompted me to ask All About Spelling if they'd be willing to ship out-of-country.
Lori Seaborg
blogging at
http://www.JustPureLovely.com &
http://FreelyEducate.com
Please enter me in this drawing. Thanks so much for your review!
We haven’t started teaching spelling yet (my oldest is 8), but it’s probably time we started. Thanks for the giveaway.
Thank you for the opportunity to enter. You are so generous with the assorted opportunities !
Would love the All About Spelling giveaway!
This would be useful for at least 4 of my home schooled children! I’d love to win!
You don’t need to enter me, I just wanted to add my accolades for this program. My son is on Level 3 and my daughter is on Level 3. We all enjoy it – even though they use two different leaning styles. I am hearing much less of, “Mama, how do you spell…?” Now I just need to get my hands on Levels 5 & 6.
I’ve tweeted, facebooked and blogged about this! Blog entry here http://blog.8gomad.co.uk/?p=108
Enter me please. Thanks
Thanks for your feedback, Heather! I really appreciate that. I'll leave your comment in as an entry and if you win, we'll ask AAS to give you one of the levels you need. I think the value is the same, so shouldn't be a problem, I'm guessing!
Sounds GREAT! I am looking for a spelling program. Please enter me!
I would love one of these.
So this looks great for a homeschool.
(that’s my comment!)
THANKS for the chance to win!
This sounds like just what we’ve been looking for! My son is very auditory and struggles with spelling, especially transferring to writing. I am hopeful that this program can help us! Thank you so much!!
Please enter me in your Spelling giveaway! 🙂
I joined your Facebook Fan page.
The article on how poor spelling affects other subjects sounds very interesting. Please enter me for this give away!! Thank you!!
Looks good! Please enter me as well.
Thanks
Spelling Activities for Practicing Skills has some great ideas!
Yes please! Will tweet it in a minute 🙂
Sounds spiffy! Put me in there, please. =)
WE WOULD REALLY LOVE THIS!! My 7 year old can read like a whiz, but the spelling, she just doesn’t get it! thanks for the great giveaway!!
Well my 11yr old daughter has reading issues anyway so something to help her read and spell better would be GREAT. Thank You!
just facebooked about it. Glad to see you are on FB!! Excited for spelling!!!!
ooo i would love this to help my two little ones that are just learning to spell xx thank you 🙂
loved the article on using tiles to teach spelling. I wasn’t taught any rules about spelling. The only thing I remember was i before e except after c. I thought you just had to memorize all of the words!! Soo excited to get this (even if I don’t win ;-))
have tweeted and added you too 🙂
Enter me for the spelling curriculum give away, please. Thanks
Please enter me, we’d love this!
Just joined your Facebook page too, I wish I’d known about that sooner, I need to pay more attention! Thanks!
Please enter me.
Looked at several of the articles, but I really liked the one on Effective Spelling Strategies. Using the various strategies could be very helpful in our homeschool.
I would love to enter to win the All About Spelling program.
•What to Do When Poor Spelling Affects Your Child’s Performance in Other School Subjects.
It seems spelling is one of the biggest hurdles in our homeschool. I have one child that can spell verbally but not on paper. I would love to remediate but am not sure where to start. It really does affect my child’s desire to write.
This sounds great! Anything to make a potentially mundane area of homeschooling more fun would be great!
Posted on Facebook and Tweeted too!
That would be a wonderful addition to the classroom. Thanks for giving me the chance to win.
posted on facebook too 🙂 xx
I’d love to try this out. Please enter me in the drawing.
love the article on Developing Phonemic Awareness we are just trying to do this with ours, and i think segmenting used to be called wordspelling when i was little 🙂
My family could definitely use this!!! Thank you!
Looks perfect for my family. Thank you.
One for me, please!
I’m new to homeschooling so this sounds great!
Please enter me!
Sounds great – please enter me :o)
We can keep leaving comments, right? 🙂
My daughter really struggles with reading and spelling. Maybe this would give her a jump start.
I would love to win this AAS program… looks like just what we need!
Wow! I’ve heard about this program and I would LOVE to get a copy!
Teaching Spelling in Your Homeschool looks interesting. Most people don’t think of spelling as a single subject and it is hard to teach your non-spelling child when you are a good speller(umm humm).
Already a facebook fan!!
Pick me, pick me!!!
Five Ways to Handle Misspelled Words looks helpful.
Putting my hand up, please!!! 🙂
This sounds interesting. Please enter me.
Would love to give this a try! Enter me!
Loved the spelling activity article. Great ideas for practicing words and fun, too! Looking forward to trying some of them.
I have 2 kids who struggle with spelling (among other things 🙂 and would love to try this. Thanks so much!
I’d love to win! Please enter me!
Hey,sounds good , enter me too!
I for sure want one!!! This is the curriculum I plan to use for Spelling. My kids are very early readers, so they don’t always pick up the phonics lessons then. I think AAS will be a FABULOUS way to fill in that gap.
I for sure want one!!! This is the curriculum I plan to use for Spelling. My kids are very early readers, so they don’t always pick up the phonics lessons then. I think AAS will be a FABULOUS way to fill in that gap.
You’re looking very popular for this atm! 🙂
“Five Ways To Handle Misspelled Words”. My teen isn’t the greatest speller, so I appreciate this article!!!
I’m a Facebook fan!!
Sounds great. Please enter me.
Looks like this would be great thanks for the offer.
I just liked your page on facebook
I’d love one. Please enter me too.
By looking at the different articles,I feel the ‘Spelling Activities for Practicing Skills’ would be the most helpful for us.
Thanks for offering this to the lot of us. I’d be a happy recipient…let’s see. Did I spell that right?
Please enter me, and thanks!
Second entry — I chose the article on invented spelling! Oh boy does that apply here. Thanks for the contest.
Enter me! 🙂
Putting in an entry! THANKS!!! 🙂
Share on Facebook! I would like to win AAS! Thank you!
Twitted the giveaway!! Thanks for another entry!
@jaslinn77
http://www.all-about-spelling.com/homeschool-spelling.html Homeschool Spelling caught my eye before any other articles with All About Spelling.
I liked that the article enforces the fact that spelling is important and that daily review/practice is needed to becoming a better speller.
Then this article leads me to:
What works in teaching Spelling & What doesn’t work
Multisensory-YES!! (since we use the Charlotte Mason method in our homeschooling)
The ‘what doesn’t work’ article could not be viewed. 🙁
http://twitter.com/jaslinn77/status/17941071664
Please enter me in your drawing. Sounds like a good fit possibly for my daughter.
I signed up at your facebook page and left a comment there too. Thanks!
I went to the website and the article that sounds most helpful to me is “Tactile Ways to Practice Spelling.” Thanks for the giveaway.
Please enter me in your drawing — thanks!
Please enter me in the contest to win All About Spelling. Sounds like a great program!
The article, “Challenges in Teaching Spelling” has several great tips for me. My son really struggles with spelling.
I also joined your Facebook Fan page.
sweet!
I’ve heard that it’s a good program. Would love to win! Thanks for the opportunity.
I would like to have one.
The article “How to correct spelling mistakes” was very helpful to me!
The article Developing Phonemic Awareness is helpful for my struggling reader/ speller. Thanks
I’m now a Facebook fan!
#4, sorry I don’t Tweet!
#5, or Blog!
I want one! 🙂
The most helpful article for me would have to be “Teaching Spelling in Your Homeschool.”
I just joined (liked) the Facebook page!
I would love to have this program! I have 3 kids @ different grade levels and it would be such a blessing to have something like this to use w/them to really hone their spelling skills. Thanks for doing this – here’s to winning!
Joined the Facebook fan page!
Posted link to the giveaway @ your site on my Facebook wall…
The article “Developing Phonemic Awareness” was extremely insightful for me.
the article on ‘How to correct spelling mistakes’ looks most interesting to me.
Today reminded me how much I could use a new spelling program for my children. Working on stuff for the library and so many of the words were spelled wrong. I would love to try this program
I really need to try a new program. I think spelling is so important
Thank you for all the great info you put on the site and for the giveaways they are so helpful
One program three kids can use it wouldn’t that be great!
this seems perfect for my children as we are really struggling with spelling! Please enter me and thanks for bringing this wonderful resource to my attention!!!!
Tactile Ways to Practice Spelling explains how and why the tiles work so well in promoting/aiding spelling. I trust I win, my children could really use this.
I want it! My daughter loves spelling!
I intend to buy this program for my daughter…but to win it would even be better. So, enter me as well! Thank you.
I want one!
Thank you for the opportunity! We have heard wonderful things about this program and would love to try it.
Thank you for the opportunity! We have heard wonderful things about this program and would love to try it. The article “How to correct spelling mistakes” looks very interesting!
My best friends uses this program and I would love the chance to try it myself!
Sorry, sent too soon. Please void.
This program sounds great! I have two struggling spellers and have tried many programs, so am really needing something that works! Please enter me.
I found the two following articles very helpful and will use the suggestions for my homeschooling in the future. I have heard many good things about your program and would like to try it.
What Works in Teaching Spelling
What Doesn’t Work in Teaching Spelling
I would love to be entered in this giveaway.
Awww…can you put New Zealand on as well…we’re super-duper close to Australia 🙂
We would love one!! Thanks for the opportunity!!
I especially like the lessons on handling misspelling. My 9 year old son has a really hard time with slowing down to spell things correctly. Anything to help him along and through the maze of the English language!
Would love to try this out when I go back to teaching in the fall!
“Jail” for difficult words that don’t fit the spelling patterns – now wouldn’t that catch almost every young boy’s attention!!
please enter me
loving the idea of using snow as a tactile spelling surface on this hot summer day!! Can’t wait to try it when it gets cold again!
What a neat spelling program, I’d love one!!
The Jobs of Silent E sounds like a fun article!
I’ve been looking for a new spelling program. Thanks so much for the chance to win!
Chris in Canada
I saw the add for All About Spelling on the Homeschooling a struggling learners newsletter. I would love to have for my daughter who has struggled with learning for years. Im always up for new ideas. Enter me for a free copy!
Thanks
Christine
I would love to try this program with my kids. Please enter me!
God Bless-
Angela
My daughter has struggled both with reading and spelling. It looks like a great program. Enter me for a chance to win!
Jodi
I’m interested, looks neat! Please enter me.
This would be great!
The article:Spelling Activities for Practicing Skills looks good.
We can always use more ideas for hands on ways to practice skills.This article provides them.
I would love to be entered in the drawing for “All About Spelling”. Thank you!
I’d like to try it. Thanks
“How to Correct Spelling Mistakes” looks like an interesting article. I am a pretty good speller. I just know when something doesn’t look write, but I don’t know how to pass that on to my children.
Please enter me in the drawing. Thanks!
Your wish came true, Vicki! You’re the winner! I’ll be in contact with you to get your mailing information. Congrats, Lori