We just started using All About Spelling this year, and frankly at this point you couldn’t take it from me if you wanted to! Yes, we LOVE it that much! And not only do I love it, but my kids LOVE it! Every now and then I’ll let them pick the order of their workboxes, and I’m not kidding you, unless there’s a candy bar in one of the drawers, they’ll pick the All About Spelling box first every time!
Some benefits to All About Spelling:
- The program is multisensory, approaching spelling through sight, sound, and touch.
- The lesson plans scripted for you. They are easy to follow and leave nothing out! And it’s not just spelling, it’s a phonics program as well, and they teach all the rules in an easy to follow and understand manner.
- It works! I can honestly say I’ve noticed an improvement in both my 1st and 2nd grader’s spelling since we’ve started.
- It’s fun! This is an activity that we do one-on-one and since it involves many different activities, the kids seem to really enjoy it! They are learning quickly and we are all having fun (including me!) and that’s huge in my book!
I am so thrilled about this program, and I hope to use it with all of our kids from here on out.
One thing to note, there are only about 25 lessons in both the first and 2nd level books. I’m used to doing 1 lesson/day with my other curriculum, so obviously that wasn’t going to work. Some of the lessons for my 1st grader are pretty easy so we’re blazing through them quickly, but you are to teach to mastery with this program so after talking to the super nice people at All About Spelling I realized that you don’t need to go through 1 lesson each day. Instead you are to stay on that lesson until they’ve got the rules down pat, so we’ve slowed down a bit.
(This box has cards for both level 1 and level 2 in it, I found it in the office supply section of Target, it had a paper pad in it!)
Each level comes with a set of Phonogram Cards, Sound Cards, Key Word Cards (we call them trivia) and Spelling Word Cards. Each day you go through the cards they say to as well as review those your child hasn’t mastered which is nice. The cards help remind me what they need to work on, and I don’t know about you but I can use all the reminders I can get!
If you haven’t tried this program yet, all I can say is that you won’t be disappointed! Just make sure to call them first, or go through the test on the All About Spelling site under the FAQ page to see what level to buy. Their levels don’t quite correspond with grade level.
This is a good project to help Heaven w/ recognizing letters, thanks =)
Where did you find the box for all the cards? I'm stuck with two small boxes and its just not working smoothly!
We've been using AAS for a year now with both my 8 and 5 year old. It is AMAZING! I love it and so do they! Also, where did you get your card box… they don't all fit in a typical index card box which is what I have. What to go Erica on another great find!
I like it a lot, too.
I've heard such great things about this program! I am going to bookmark it to remember for next year.
i am wanting to buying AAS… just saving some money. i am quite unsure which level to buy..
Thanks for the great review. I'm a teacher that works for a charter home school. I'm definitely going to pass this new information on to all of my families that I service!
We started AAS this year with my 6yo son and feel the same way you do! He gets super excited putting a sticker on each completed level and begs to do the next one…amazing! I really appreciate all the phonetic pronunciations this program provides instead of long/short sounds. A+++
It's on our list to buy! saving our pennies! Heard lots of great things about it! Can't wait!
Thank you so much for reviewing this! I had never heard of it before and had been wondering what to do to teach spelling to my little ones (I'm just beginning my eldest son's 2nd year of school, and my 2nd son's first year). I just followed your link and read the whole AAS website! I will DEFINITELY be getting this curriculum! Now to wait till our budget makes some funds available 🙂 Do you have more than one letter set, or do your kiddos do fine sharing?