Hi everyone, I am always thrilled to be able to offer you a giveaway from All About Learning Press, and today I have a $50 gift card for you that you can use on any of the AALP products that will benefit your homeschool!
As you know, we’ve used All About Spelling for several years and recently added in All About Reading as well. I continue to love the hands-on aspect of this program, as well as the explanation of phonics rules.
One of my favorite things about the units are the colored flashcards that we review daily. They are very effective in helping kids retain the phonics rules, and enable me to remind them if they’re needing help with spelling a word. For example if they need to spell the word dodge, I’ll simply ask them a few questions instead of giving them the answer. Like this:
“What are your two options for the ‘j’ sound at the end of a word? Okay, which one follows a short vowel? There you go, now you know how to spell that word.” I find this much more effective than simply memorizing the word (which they inevitably forget right after the test is over) and it also enables them to figure out how to spell words on their own.
And since they know all of these handy phonics rules, they can also read the words as well because they’re so familiar with seeing the special sounds on the cards and repeating all of the sound choices that those letters can make.
I’ve found that AALP programs teach reading concepts in a logical order, and review constantly so that kids aren’t forgetting things as they go. We use their magnetic letter tiles, as well as our iPad chalk board, stamps, and other spelling manipulatives to help make it more fun as well.
I am also loving the phonogram cards (yellow ones) that come with the program. They make it really easy for me to review all of the phonic blends and letter sounds each day. My absolute favorite ones though are the blue key cards. My kids actually think they’re playing a gam each time we review all of the rules!
Giveaway Time!
I know that many of you all enjoy All About Learning Press products too, and so I’m happy to offer you a $50 gift card to use at their store however you see fit! To enter, simply fill out the raffle copter below!
More AALP Giveaways!
All About Learning is hosting another giveaway for any level of All About Reading now through March 12, 2013!
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We are currently doing your K-4 program. Although we haven’t ever tried AAR or AAS, I think we would love both of them. I think my daughter is at the point where she needs the phonics cards to progress further.
Use All About Spelling and love it. Would like to try All About Reading with my youngest but haven’t been able to justify the cost since I have a Phonics program I like that I have used with the 3 older since All About Reading was not available when we started. $50 would help ‘justify’ the cost of replacing what we have.
I Love All About Spelling and was just getting ready to order next years curriculum this week. winning a $50.00 gift card would be so nice!!
All About Reading would be great to start in the fall with my 5 year old.
I would LOVE the All About Spelling Level 1 Materials & the Interactive kit!!
The “Queen Bee” Level 2 short story collection looks like it would be a fun addition to the reading program. Anything with animals in it is always a big hit in my house!
I just started AAS Level One this year with my first-grader, and I love it! So far the spelling products are my favorite, because I have honestly never seen spelling taught like this before- it just makes SO much more sense than the way I was taught, and the ways I see other curriculum choices approach it.
Thanks for this opportunity!!
We’re excited to use AAS in our upcoming homeschool year! Thanks for the opportunity 🙂
I am currently using a different program but I am wanting to try something different. I am excited about AAS and I hope it works better than what we are using now. I would love to get the spelling interactive kit.