All About Spelling giveaway

The folks over at Freely Educate are sponsoring a giveaway contest for the fabulous, IMHO, All About Spelling curriculum!!

Followers of the blog know that we seek out  multisensory and multiple intelligence strategies in our homeschooling approach.

Like many folks, we've had severe cutbacks in our income these past couple of years so we've been unable to purchase pre-packaged curricula and have been using lots of other spelling resources, but this one has been on the top of my wish list for some time.

The website at All About Spelling has a huge offering of FREE ARTICLES AND RESOURCES to offer home educators as well, including tips and spelling lists.  We've made great use of those free resources.  It also completed changed my perspective on "invented spelling."

Like this reviewer from Treasure Seekers, I too benefited greatly from phonics instruction as an elementary student and like this same systematic phonetics-based approach to spelling from All About Spelling.

You can get more insight about how one home educator has been using All About Spelling. You'll love her cool tricks for using free paint chips to teach spelling along with the All About Spelling board!!

2nd Grade Spelling Lists

East Lansing Public Schools Sitton Spelling Lists - 2nd Grade

Sacred Spiral Kids - 2nd Grade spelling list, (and 2nd grade math workbook)

Super Teacher Worksheets - 2nd Grade

Geneva Schools Spelling Lists - 2nd Grade

Homespelling words - 2nd Grade

All About Spelling - Free Spelling Lists Grades 1 to 7

Free phonics and spelling lessons

Free Resources for Teaching and Learning Phonics for Reading and Spelling

Phonics Primer -- from National Right to Read Foundation
What are all the different sounds in the English language? In what order should the sounds be taught?

Decoding sounds for spelling and reading -- from The Phonics Page
What are the different ways to spell the same sounds? What is the likelihood that a certain sound (e.g. long a) is spelled a certain way (e.g. a, ay, eigh, ai) in the English language?

Free complete phonics lessons online -- from The Phonics Page
Uses quicktime player tutorials to teach sounds, rules, etc. and provide self-tests. While the actual lessons are non-sectarian, Biblical texts are read after each lesson, with newly learned syllables or words highlighted.

Comprehensive list of spelling rules -- from "Reading from Scratch" at Dyslexia.org

P.S. Check out another homeschooling journey with spelling and phonics and learning styles....

Free diagnostic test for Dyslexia

Dorothy van den Honert has some amazing resources over at "Reading from Scratch" for helping dyslexic learners. 

One thing she has on her website is a free diagnostic test to help you know whether your child might be dyslexic.

She also provides a fascinating history about how we finally learned about what is going on in the brain of folks with dyslexia. Hint: dyslexics DON'T reverse their letters and dyslexics are intelligent!

She asserts that phonics is one key part of helping dyslexic learners, along with with other brain retraining steps.  Here are some spelling rules that are part of that phonics instruction and can be useful to all types of learners.