Sequential Spelling and Spelling Wisdom

We use Seq. Sp. every day.  We do Spelling Wisdom as prepared dictation once a week (or when I remember! )

I like the idea, the theory behind Spelling Wisdom.  But it just wasn’t sticking in my oldest girl’s head.  She’s a decent speller to begin with, however, she needed something a bit more “organized” than the seemingly random Spelling Wisdom quotes.

My daughter also dislikes writing.  So to copy anything, even once, is annoying to her.  And really, I don’t think Spelling Wisdom will work well if the student isn’t copying it at least twice.  Since my daughter’s handwriting isn’t all that pretty, she still needs a handwriting book.  Add that to the writing she needs to do for other subjects, and having her copy the Spelling Wisdom dictation was just over-the-top in her mind.

So, we still use Spelling Wisdom, but it’s only occasionally.  I like the idea of it, and my daughter loved it when an author she copied in Spelling Wisdom came up in a history or poetry lesson or in the newspaper or something, but it just didn’t seem to work for us.

I do hope to eventually go back to it – maybe in high school?  OR maybe with one of my other daughters.

We use both. I use SS a few days a week in grades 4-6. I use SW for dictation once or twice a week depending on their age. It seems to be a good balance.