All About Spelling $50 Giveaway!

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I’ve raved over All About Spelling from All About Learning Press in many of my posts. I honestly can’t say enough good things about it!

I came into homeschooling being labeled as a “poor speller” and it caused me great concern. It didn’t matter that I graduated from high school 10th in my class of 405, or that I entered college with 18 course credits from my AP classes or that I excelled in college and graduated magna cum laude with my degree in middle grades education. None of that mattered. I had been told early on in my education that I was a poor speller and I just needed to study harder. I did study. I studied a lot. Spelling was still hit or miss with me. No matter how had I tried this was my main struggle in elementary school and I dreaded the yearly spelling bees since I rarely made it past the first round just within my classroom!

What a relief when middle school came and spelling was no longer required! It was also about that time that computers were becoming more main-stream and they included spell-checker, so I basically gave up trying. Why should I try when I had basically been told I wasn’t going to ever increase my spelling ability? The irony of it all was that my reading level was much higher than most of my peers. I was told high level readers usually translated into high level spellers. So what was wrong with me?

No one ever taught me the rules. Rules? There are rules for spelling? Except for “i before e except after c (and a bunch of exceptions we don’t have a rule for)” I don’t remember learning any rules. All About Spelling has changed my entire understanding of this subject. I searched it out when my oldest, an excellent reader, was clearly not transitioning to spelling easily. Rather than giving up, I started researching. I prayed for wisdom then scoured the internet, read numerous catalogs, and asked veteran homeschooling moms their recommendation. I settled on All About Spelling and haven’t looked back!

Since then spelling has only become more and more fun! Here is an update on my two girls using All About Spelling…
Beth…

Beth finished up her Kindergarten year a little over half-way through All About Spelling Level 1. I could have pushed her a little faster because she loved it and it seemed easy, but I chose to do only 1 lesson about every 2 weeks, practicing just a little bit each day. This worked well for her and I plan to up the pace a bit in the fall. She’ll continue some through the summer to guarantee retention. 
Something knew we tried and love is spelling using alphabet stamps in addition to the tiles. I try to switch ti up for fun. I always use the tiles for teaching and the first set of words we work on, but I try to switch it up some after that. 
Another unexpected benefit for Beth has been improvement in handwriting. She really wanted to use a traditional notebook like her sister and in doing so, her handwriting has started becoming more mature. What a fun transformation to see this year! 
Rose…

Rose finished up 2nd grade and I am thrilled with her progress. We are about 1/4 the way through level 3 and will also continue during the summer. She used to ask me how to spell very short words she should not have a problem with, she now rarely asks how to spell anything, or tries it first and then just asks me to check it. I have also caught her making her own corrections. This is HUGE! She would frequently flip 2 letters and now she is seeing it. What a blessing All About Spelling has been for her! She especially likes finding Silent E in words and deciding which rule it follows. 
She also really enjoys using the homophones book. It is divided into grade-level appropriate practice. She has only done a few of the pages, but she now quickly recognizes homophones.
Although we do uses the tiles for teaching, Rose never uses them for spelling practice now. It is faster for her to write and since she likes that better it is fine with me! She also has improved her cursive as a result. The transition for a student from copying cursive to writing their own words can sometimes be tricky. All About Spelling has been a good medium to make this transition. We still have some work to do here, but she’s definitely well on her way! 
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292 thoughts on “All About Spelling $50 Giveaway!”

  3. This will be our first year to homeschool and had decided to use the \”All About Spelling\” due to many fabulous reviews. I am looking forward to having it!

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  4. We are still finishing AAR level 1, so we haven't started spelling instruction yet. We plan to use All About Spelling because I love how the spelling rules are taught! Thank you for hosting the giveaway!

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  6. My younger son is a naturally good speller but my older son is not. So it's kind of a mixed bag. I personally enjoy teaching spelling.Name on rafflecopter: Mary Happymommymami2jcn at gmail dot com

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  9. We use All About Spelling too. At first I was a little skeptical, but as we got into the later levels I was sold. It's a great program.

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  13. My oldest has just turned 5 and we haven't done any spelling work yet, except for a few things with the Montessori moveable alphabet. I'm not sure yet how I feel about it!

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  21. If I had enough money I'd buy AAR for reading instruction. Since I only have one more to go I'll just stick with what I have, but it looks SOOOOO good!

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  30. I think this would fit in well with a Montessori approach. It would be great if you could get your hands on the curriculum and see it for yourself. It is very flexible for just about any style of learning!

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  38. AAR has been a good fit for my soon to be 1st grader who will finish level 1 in the fall where we will move on to level 2 and also begin AAS level one.

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  40. We are just starting home school for first grade. I hope it will be easy to teach spelling because he did so well in Kindergarten & learned how each letter combination makes different sounds.

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  47. We started AAS last year with our first grader, she struggled to learn how to spell, and I struggled to teach her. I am very good at spelling, but all I could say was \” this is just how it is\” Being able to start AAS was a blessing for us, having the rules it just clicked for her. This would be a great help in ordering for fall. Thank you so much for the chance 🙂 Kristi EKrisforme2002@yahoo.com

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  48. We are just about to start teaching spelling, so I don't know for sure how it will go. My daughter seems to be a natural speller so far. She spells most of her sight words for reading so far!

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  49. I think spelling is actually easier to learn at a young age, then to teach at an older age. I think as we grow older we use memorization and not rules to define why we spell a certain way.

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  50. We have been using AAS for two years and love the program. They kids always choose spelling as their first lesson, they enjoy it so much! alison at fatephoto dot com

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