All About Spelling Level One: Steps 1-6

All About Spelling uses multisensory learning. Kinesthetic learning includes building words with letter tiles, sorting words, and writing words, phrases, and sentences. Visual learning includes watching direct instruction of spelling concepts with the colored tiles, seeing the words written down, and looking at the review cards. Auditory learning includes verbally reviewing the review cards, segmenting words out loud, and saying the phonogram's sound as it is written. 

During the first week I will evaluate which of the first 26 phonograms each student knows. We will then learn a few phonograms during each class along with learning how to segment words. Students will also learn which letters are consonants and which are vowels. Next students will learn the sound or sounds that each letter makes. Then we will focus on each of the short vowel sounds. 

Each week I will incorporate the following activities:
1. Review phonogram cards, sound cards, key cards, and word cards.
2. Introduce a new spelling concept through direct modeling with the tiles followed by guided practice with the tiles, guided practice with the pages in the activity book, independent practice in writing, and application in writing in a word or phrase.
3. Assess your child's progress through their understanding of review cards and demonstration of the spelling concept in writing.