Homeschool Spelling
What are you using for spelling in your home school?
I’ve homeschooled my oldest from the start. I say we started at the day she was born. ; )
She has really stuggled though with spelling. Early on I was told to relax by other moms and used the Charlotte Mason method. I was told she would catch on by doing copy work. Sadly she didn’t so I moved on to using phonics to help her learn to spell. This helped a little but still she struggles.
I have tried a lot of different things. The past 2yrs I have used “A Reason for Spelling” but still I haven’t seen much improvement. Almost a month ago I found SPELLING SOLUTIONS & decided to give that a try. I wrote to the author about how much my daughter has struggled and she agreed that this would help. So I will start using this next week.
What are you using for teaching your child to spell in your homeschool?
Link to the Spelling Solutions – http://www.jeanniefulbright.com/Spellingsolutions.html
We usually don’t use spelling tests in our home. The kids have to write little essays on one subject a week. If I notice the boys are having difficulty with a few words I will create a test for them. I have them copy each word five times.
Write out the definition(s) of each word and a sentence per word. And if they have spelled a word wrong on the test, the word(s) will be on the next test and continue on each and every test until it has been spelled right.
Then I will sneak in a word they found difficult in another test later on.
My oldest son is dyslexic and finds spelling, and just reading and writing in general difficult. I stressed about it and so did he. I ended up making school a game. We played schoolhouse when he was younger, and I didn’t make him read but left reading material on all his favorite subjects around the house. Throughout the years his spelling, reading, and writing improved on its own. So I pretty much stopped testing him.
Perhaps you should just give your daughter time and patience. I found that pushing something a child finds so very difficult only makes it worse for the child. If she still enjoys writing let her write her own stories, she will find that spelling is an important part of story writing. That might help her relize that she needs to learn to spell in order to have someone understand her stories. Perhaps you can have her play Hangman..its fun and she must be able to spell to play. Have you tried computer games? She can learn to spell using a few games you can find on the internet. I will try to add a few links on here. But, more than anything, relax Mom. If you stress, she stresses..make learning as fun and entertaining as possible.
funbrain.com
funschool.kaboose.com
spellzone.com
Hope this helps you.
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