Home schoolers Spelling Bee Finalist…again.
Here’s a great inspirational article a friend posted in the HELP yahoo group today:
Young spellers duel in 4½-hour contest, by Billings Gazette.
Spelling has never been my cup of tee [I mean "tea"]. Ha ha .
No doubt, this kind of competition is truly encouraging with various word definitions, origins, pronunciations, etc. It’s much more than just studying “spelling lists”!
Spelling.org – The name says it all
Recommendation:
AVKO Educational Research Foundation A non-profit
organization devoted to helping teachers, parents, and researchers since 1974
AVKO comes from Audio, Visual, Kinesthetic, & Oral a multi-sensory
approach
FREE on – www.spelling.org . All 62 chapters of THE TEACHING OF
READING & SPELLING: A CONTINUUM FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH COLLEGE.
Definitions of dyslexia in plain English. – Sample lessons from Sequential
Spelling. – Try before you buy
