Oh my goodness! If you haven’t tried All About Spelling yet you are soooo missing out! We started using this product last year and absolutely love love love it!
I personally think they should have named it All About Phonics because it really is a phonics, spelling and reading program in my opinion. I wrote a review of it awhile back you can read my All About Spelling Review here.
I was previously using a different spelling program and my daughter was getting 100% on all her tests. I thought she was doing great until I realized that she was actually just memorizing her list for the week, but then later when asked to recall a word she should have learned it was long gone.
With All About Spelling, kids learn why words are spelled as they are. They drill the phonics rules until they are mastered and that is what has made the difference for us. I noticed a marked improvement in both the reading and writing skills of my children after starting this program. Now when they go to spell or sound out a word, I’ll remind them of the rules they’ve learned and they are able to figure it out on their own.
The lesson plans are well laid out and actually scripted for you if you like that. They also include hands on activities to make it a little more fun. I have a few Spelling Practice Ideas on my blog as well if you’re looking for more ideas to make spelling more hands-on and fun.
If you haven’t yet, make sure to visit All About Spelling: Don’t forget to let them know Erica @ Confessions sent you over!
- All About Spelling Facebook
- All About Spelling Website (They just launched a new website and it’s much easier to navigate and really shows the products quite a bit better! Definitely stop by and check it out for yourself.)
Now for some super awesome homeschooling goodness…
I’ve had a lot of people ask for a giveaway from All About Spelling, so I contacted Marie Rippel and she was totally on board! So…drum roll please….I’m doing a giveaway for a FREE All About Spelling Level 1 plus the Deluxe Interactive kit!
You will receive one free Level 1 Teachers Kit plus the the Deluxe Interactive Kit . The kit includes the same four items that the Basic Interactive Kit does:
- Letter Tiles
- Magnets for the Letter Tiles
- Phonogram CD-ROM
- Divider Cards
PLUS three more components:
- Spelling Review Box
- Spelling Tote Bag
- Bee stickers for your child’s progress chart
Mandatory Entry: {THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED}
- Simply leave a comment below letting me know why you’d like to win a free copy of All About Spelling Level 1 plus the Deluxe Interactive kit!
Additional Optional Entries: (not required to win, leave a separate comment on this post for each additional entry)
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- Tweet about this giveaway, feel free to copy the text below:
@ericahomeschool is hosting an All About Spelling Giveaway! Enter thru 9/2/11! /?p=1333
Nitty Gritty Giveaway Details:
- The give away will be open until midnight EST Friday September 2, 2011. Winner will be announced by Sunday September 4, 2011.
- Make sure to leave a separate comment for each entry, winner will be chosen at random!
- Please leave a way for me to contact you in your entry otherwise another winner will be chosen.
- This giveaway is offered to US residents only!
- This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.
- NOTE: In order to enter the contest you must leave a comment on THIS post. To leave a comment scroll to the bottom of the post and click “Post a comment” (If you are reading this via RSS, you will need to visit my actual blog to post a comment.)
- Disclosure: All About Spelling provided me with a free copy of their product to offer as giveaway on my blog. The opinions I have given are mine and may differ from others but were not influenced by the company or the free product provided.
Thanks for such a great offer!! I am always on the lookout for ways to make teaching my children fun… but most importantly getting it to “stick.”
I came to your blog through Olives and pickles while searching for activities related to phonics. When I saw the title of the article I thought this method was not what I need since I teach pre-k and we’re just about to start with phonics, but then I kept reading and it seems it’s exactly what I was looking for!.
We would really like to win this. I never learned phonics and am struggling on how I will teach it.
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to win this AAS pack because I have one daughter who really struggles with spelling and phonics. She’s 8 yrs old and we have tried everything, including tutoring (to make sure I wasn’t doing something wrong, nothing quite like you’re child struggling with something to make you doubt yourself). AAS looks like a wonderful program, and I’ve heard many wonderful things about it, and I think it just might work to help her, plus her sister can use it when it’s their turn. 🙂
Thanks!
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following on twitter now too!
I would love to use All About Spelling with my son who is in K. right now, this would be so helpful for his leaning about spelling and reading! We started homeschooling him this year.
Thanks ! 🙂
Oh my! This is just what I have been looking for!! I would love to get started with this for our kindergartener!
I’m a new follower on Twitter too 🙂
Tweeted your giveaway on Twitter!
This is our first year homeschooling, starting with my preschooler. I can already see which learning methods work best for her and what motivates her to learn – hands on using sight and touch. I don’t know many homeschoolers so your blog is an inspiration of ideas and products that are proving very helpful. It seems this would also be an answer to my questions on how I will teach spelling!