When to start spelling homeschool
How To Teach Spelling || Homeschool Mom Tips
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in this video I'm gonna quickly show you
how we do spelling in our home we use
this book succeeding at reading which I
have already shared in a previous video
this is designed for children with kind
of learning difficulties in spelling and
specifically dyslexia which our son who
is 10 years old he has dyslexia so I'm
gonna show you how I use this book with
him so we use succeeding at reading and
then all we add is just this composition
notebook and we do different you know
spelling lists and dictation sentences
and things like that basically every
single day at the beginning of this
school year we started right at lesson
one with the short a sound and he does
struggle with the a a and EF sound he
struggles with those too because of his
dyslexia he also struggles with his
handwriting
so sometimes who will write letters
facing the wrong direction and things
like that so we're working hard on
spelling getting those sounds you know
perfectly and also handwriting so just
to show you here so this is the very
first day this is back in August so I
had him write a Bible verse in here and
then we did the different words and then
I had him use stickers and also stamps
so there's you can use different ways
for people who are like those bodily
kinesthetic learners who really like to
do things to learn it really helps to
allow them to use handwriting to use
stickers and stamps and things like that
so that's what we've done but then we
found as we kind of went through he
works better if he just did his own
handwriting so we kept going through the
book and as you can see every week or
I'm sorry every day I would include
words from the previous day so that he
would kind of reinforce the things that
he learned or was working on or things
like that and I also always worked with
him on his handwriting as well so here
this actually a good example so he
brought these words with beginning with
capital letters and so that I made sure
to point out that they needed to be
lowercase letters so that is one of the
things that he struggles with
and then sometimes I will do an oral
spelling test with him
where I will write out the words as I
tell them to him and then I will write
down the way that he spelled the word
and then I will talk him through it I
won't actually have him write anything
this is just strictly oral spelling but
then on the next day I will make sure I
use these words and his next spelling
test so it isn't like we have ten or
twelve words every single week and we
make sure he masters them by the end of
the week
I just keep reincorporating the words
that he struggled with every week as I
add new words with new different sounds
and things like that as you can see it
starts out here with the short a and E
and then it moves on to lots of
different things here's the other vowels
there's always a sentence reviews which
I use these as dictation for him and I
will give him one of the sentences and
he will just write it down and then
obviously things start getting a bit
harder as we move through the book and
we're right about here around less than
21 right now I've added some of these
less than 22 words yesterday but they
were a little bit hard for him so I went
back here to this lesson today so just
kind of go back and forth as he needs it
so let me show you how we actually do
this with him
so Gregory just opens up his composition
notebook he writes down the date and
we're ready to go and then I just give
him a word and I say the word in a
sentence and he writes it down ash fetch
that into a piece of wood ash now as you
can see sometimes it takes him a little
bit longer to figure it out sometimes he
just struggles with even writing the
letters and that's because he has
dyslexia so as you have a child without
dyslexia it will probably go very
quickly for you to follow this format
you just go through all the words have
them write them down and then after that
you check over the words and let them
know which ones were correct which were
not and then I always have him write
them at least two to three times each
word if we have issues with handwriting
or capitalization and things like that I
will also have him write down those
things we also do our dictation sentence
and
I usually have him go back and fix
anything
whether that be a spelling word that's
wrong capitalization that's incorrect
if the punctuation is wrong he will have
to go back and write the whole sentence
over again just to make sure he really
solidifies those ideas in his head so as
soon as he writes that sentence down I
will remind him I will say check your
capitalization and check your
punctuation and that's basically it that
is how I teach spelling to my children I
make sure I am reinforcing the things
that they struggle with and pushing them
ahead whenever they are able we don't
follow any formal curriculum or any type
of workbook we literally just use this
book succeeding at reading which like I
said I will have the video linked to up
above and in the description box below
so that you guys can get a copy for
yourselves because it is incredibly
affordable and then we just use a really
affordable composition notebook or you
can use a spiral notebook or whatever
you want honestly you can even do this
on a dry erase board so it just can be
as simple as you need it to be
it doesn't require any extra effort or
preparation you just need to kind of
know the words that they need to go over
more than once and go from there it's
very very simple and this has worked
really well for us this year I've seen a
huge improvement in his spelling rather
than using a spelling workbook where
they require you to do lots of other
activities and writing and things like
that this is just a simple
straightforward way to teach spelling in
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