All About Spelling

We liked this, but it was too much to do for every lesson. One of my children is NOT interested in manipulatives so this wasn't a good fit. The other is good with them, but the lessons simply took too much time.

We love All About Spelling! My children went to struggling with spelling to understanding more rules about spelling then I ever knew existed.

We love this program! It is definitely not one of the independent study spelling programs, but I am enjoying learning the rules along with my daughter.

We have been so blessed by AAS and in using it my children have learned to read as well.

Great way to learn grammar rules with lots of practice built in

We love All About Spelling. It's easy to use and the lessons are short. My kids enjoy using the letter tiles.

This is a very thorough spelling program. I saw a lot of improvement with my sons spelling while using this program. I would highly recommend this program for a struggling speller.

proficient

It has helped my daughter who is not a natural speller .

This is a tough one to think about recommending because while my children don't "love" this as much as they love All About Reading, I would still recommend it because they have learned a ton using this product and it is very easy to use and goes so well with All About Reading. After using Level 2, my 3rd Grade daughter tested well into the High School level of IEW's Spelling Zoo program. Much of this was due to her voracious reading as well, but I firmly believe this program gave her a fantastic foundation. My son, who is not such a natural speller, is also doing great with it and just finished Level 1. I saw him struggle a bit more with some spelling rules (such as "qu" words) but I saw him make great progress by the end of the lessons. So I would definitely still recommend it. I don't think every program we as homeschoolers use has to be colorful and flashy, and I say that as a former children's curriculum editor who spent all day purposely making things colorful and flashy as part of my job! :-) It took me awhile to change that mindset for myself but I finally see that to be true in my own homeschool.

One of the best spelling curriculum's on the market!

I find it very time consuming and my kids thought it was boring.

We switched to All About Spelling in January of this year. I started both my 5th and 3rd grader in level 1. They are both different types of learners and both of them like it. We don't use the tiles for everything in each lesson. Instead we use a dry erase board for a lot of it. We have gone quickly through the levels to get both of them to the level they need to work on, but the review and spelling rules they have learned have been helpful. We will continue to use this spelling program!

AAS is very easy to use. Lessons are pretty short. So not a huge time commitment.

This program is amazing. Easy to use and very thorough.

I LOVE All About Spelling! It is very easy to use with short scripted lessons. My kids love it too! It is multisensory using sight, sound and touch to engage the students in the lesson.

We love AAS! You can move as fast or as slow as you need to for each lesson. Lessons can be shortened and spread out over a few days or done in 20 minutes. The lessons build on each other and do a great job of making students practice and understand the reason we use certain rules in English.

Excellent program

I started Level 1 with my 10 year old son who didn't really struggle with reading but I noticed was struggling with spelling. While each level has been easy for him, he is learning some of the spelling rules that I realized we missed because he picked up on reading so quickly. This curriculum is very easy to use, lays everything out for you, engages the kids using magnetic tiles, flashcards, a sticker progress chart, etc. Although my son is 10 he is still enjoying the program and looks forward to each lesson.

We have used levels 1-4 and I definitely recommend it! I love that it teaches all the learning styles and that it gets them our of their seats. I integrate some additional review games for variety and to spice up our work, but the curriculum is thorough and does a great job of teaching the students to encode the words phonemically, making sure to teach the rules for why things are the way they are. My DD is a poor speller, but she has learned SOOOO much with this curriculum and my DS is shaping up to be an excellent speller thanks to AAS.