Simply Charlotte Mason — Charlotte Mason method homeschool helps.

Learn today’s 6,000 most frequently used words presented in the writings of great men and women of history! Now you can have the confidence that you’re teaching the words your student needs to know, using the superior method of prepared dictation that Charlotte Mason endorsed.

“Highly Recommended” — Catherine Levison
(Author of A Charlotte Mason Education, More Charlotte Mason Education, and A Literary Education)

• Easy — Teaches spelling and punctuation in just a few minutes each week.
• Thorough — Incorporates more than 12,500 words, including 6,000 most frequently used words in the English language.
• Effective — Uses the tried-and-true method of prepared dictation, which Charlotte Mason endorsed.
• Interesting and inspiring — Presents beautiful and fascinating ideas from great men and women of history that encourage and motivate children as they learn to spell the words.
• Flexible — Allows you to progress at each student’s pace.
• Inexpensive — Non-consumable, so you can use the same books for all your children.
• Convenient — Now published in both electronic format (e-book) and printed version! Handy spiral binding allows printed books to lay flat for writing or copying.
• Global — Available in both American version and British version, reflecting their different spelling preferences. (Note: Printed books are currently available in only American version.)
• Bonus Features—Don’t miss the links, updates, and other tips posted here for all those using Spelling Wisdom.

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Which Book to Use

The five books’ exercises become progressively longer and contain more difficult words as you work through the series. Each book contains 140 exercises. If you cover two exercises per week, you should be able to finish a Spelling Wisdom book in a little less than two school years. Charlotte Mason began dictation exercises with students around the third or fourth grade. With that schedule in mind, here is a rough model of which books correspond to which grades:

Grades 3, 4, 5: Book One

Grades 5, 6, 7: Book Two

Grades 7, 8, 9: Book Three

Grades 9, 10, 11: Book Four

Grades 11, 12: Book Five

Quality Sources

Compiled from more than 170 quality sources, including:

• Excerpts from more than 45 Literary Classics, such as Aesop’s Fables, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Black Beauty, David Copperfield, The Deerslayer, Freckles, Les Miserables, Little Women, Robinson Crusoe, The Secret Garden, The Story of My Life, and The Wind in the Willows.
• Speeches and quotes of famous men, such as Sir Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, and George Washington.
• Charlotte Mason quotes and excerpts from Ourselves.
• Letters written by famous men, such as Beethoven, Seneca, Mozart, and Abraham Lincoln.
• More than 60 Poems, written by such poets as Stevenson, Wordsworth, Emerson, Longfellow, and Holmes.
• More than 20 Scripture passages.
• Excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays, plus several Sonnets.

Subjects Included

Exercises thoughtfully selected to support a generous education and broad curriculum, including:

• History
• Literature
• Math
• Science
• Character Development
• Bible
• Poetry
• Geography
• Shakespeare
• Art
• Music
• Language Arts