Content: Spelling & Vocabulary
Grade(s): K – 8th
Prep Time: Minimal
Teacher Manual: Yes
Teacher Involvement: Moderate
Cost: $ || ?
Updated Review: May 12, 2014
From Soaring With Spelling’s website:
This spelling program includes 8 separate grades (levels) for teaching spelling and vocabulary. Each level has 36 lessons.
The spelling and vocabulary worksheets in Level 1 start with a gentler approach by introducing the student to simple one and two-syllable list words for each lesson. The list words for the Level 1 spelling worksheets demonstrate simple long and short vowel sounds, as well as an introduction to vowel and consonant blends. The complexity of the word lists grow to include some Latin roots.
Each lesson is clearly divided into five separate days. Each day has specifically assigned duties as follows:
Day 1: Student takes a pretest to gauge his level of proficiency with the list words.
Days 2-4: Student completes the exercises in the workbook for each day. Exercises include writing the list words, copying a sentence, or writing the definition for a list word. Soaring With Spelling also uses age-appropriate spelling games, such as proof reading,
deciphering puzzles, word jumbles, crossword puzzles, word search, definition matching, unscrambling words, identifying misspelled list words in a paragraph or sentence, alphabetizing word groups, and complete the sentences.
Day 5: Student takes the final test.
Every five weeks there is a review lesson, which covers the five previous lessons. Level 1 starts with 6 list words, and each level thereafter is increased by 2 list words. For example, Level 8 contains 20 list words for each lesson.
For each lesson, the answer key has space for the teacher to record list words (carry-over words) that were misspelled during previous lessons. Each carry-over word is brought forward to the next lesson until the student spells it correctly. The answer keys are separate from the spelling worksheets, for parents who want to promote independent study.
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