Just as an example: you teach your child that the consonant C followed by e, i and y make the sound /s/. Then you do some activities to practice the new learned rule and keep moving on, then when doing some spelling practice you come across the word key for example, your child spells it right and then you ask why did you choose C instead of K, and guess what's the answer you'll hear? "Because C followed by e, i and y makes the sound /s/ and I need for this word the sound /k/. when you get that type of feedback from your child you know the curriculum is right! If your child doesn't remember the rule, that is an opportunity to see the practical application of the rule and teach them a proper pattern of spelling.
Regarding the Reading curriculum, we love it too and it kind goes along with the All About Spelling lessons. Together they work just fine for us! So we will continue the Level 2 for both All About reading and All About Spelling.
For our Literature Units, we will be reading and working on some activities for the following books:
- Little Women (Louisa May Alcott),
- Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder),
- Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain),
- Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery),
- Pollyana (Eleanor H. Porter),
- Heidi (Johanna Spyri),
- Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
- and others that will add to the list as we progress with the units.
We already started with our Little Women Literature Study, the lapbook activities I purchased from Confessions of a Homeschooler.
What are your choices for Spelling and Reading? What books will you be reading this year? Any suggestions of books you think are good? We would love to hear from you!
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
Vanessa Z. Pawlicki
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