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My third grader, who recently figured out reading, is a horrible speller. I am using the AVKO Dvd's and trying to assist her. But, she is my difficult child and doesn't want to do anything or listen to me. I am trying to think of a fun way to help her out as I am getting worried. We do play Boggle but most words she finds are wrong and I can't keep telling her  Looking for playful suggestions to help with spelling..please...
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My son is a terrible speller, also. It doesn't seem to matter how many times he's read a word, or even written it, it just doesn't sink in! This year, I learned about Spelling City and decided to try it. I put in words that he's been having trouble with, he plays a few games a day for a week or two, and we test at the end. I have to say, it has really helped. The games seem to help him to remember the correct letter order, plus it's a fun way for him to really look at the words over and over (better than copying them 10 times a day). There is a version with more activities that you have to pay for, but so far, we are happy with the free portion of the website.
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Since you mention how difficult this child can be in teaching, i'm going to mention this site, it has opened up so much in my understanding of dd, and how she learns. The site is Dianne Craft's site all about right brain dominance, learning gate blocks, etc. I always just thought dd didn't want to learn, but since I found out how differently a right-brained child learned it has made so much sense of why teaching her has always been such a struggle. Dianne even has flashcards of sight words that teaches kids how to spell, who are struggling. From what I've seen in her videos, and read in other books, if a kid just isn't getting it no matter what methods, books, etc. are used, they are likely right-brain dominant, and would learn so much better with right-brain teaching methods. Hope this helps others as much as it has helped me. 
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Hi, Anne~
Since you mentioned that your daughter has just started to read, I think it's completely understandable that she is not spelling words correctly. She is JUST getting used to seeing all those glorious words on paper and discovering a whole new world of reading!! It's so exciting! There are hundreds and hundreds of new words that a new reader sees, sounds out and learns about. Expecting them to be able to SPELL right now, may not be t realistic.
When I have a new reader, I just continue enjoy hearing them read books at or below their level, so they experience lots of success. And I do a lot of buddy reading with them. We also continue to enjoy lots of picture books and chapter books, read aloud. It's important for these emerging readers to ENJOY reading in all it's different forms----we don't want to bog them down with the mechanics at this point. Lots of people do a phonics program. We've never continued with phonics once they begin reading. But, his is one of the fabulous things about home education-----> you can ENJOY reading for the sake of reading pleasure-----you are NOT a slave to test scores and "getting spelling words right." Now, I understand WHY the schools focus on "how many spelling words you get right"--->it's the only efficient way to measure success when you are teaching a large number of kiddos. But, when we're at home, individually, with our own children, that we know so well, we don't have to do this. It's really, really, great!
With emerging/beginning readers, this is what we do:
1. Enjoy TONS of fun, great picture books
2. Enjoy fun read aloud chapter books
3. Have reader read aloud to you 5-15 minutes / day, depending on her concentration-level
4. Buddy read with her as much as she wants and you are able
5. ONE LINE of copywork ---from various sources---> preferable from all those great books we're reading, but ANYTHING is fine. Simple, one line of copywork with simple words. Read the line with them. Have them read it. If time permits, point out a sound or something interesting about the sentence. If you need more information about copywork, let us know....we can go link crazy with you. Copywork helps them with spelling later on. You are laying a foundation for good spelling later on.
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Great suggestions and support. Thank you so much! 
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I have recently bought All About Spelling and one of the best skills we have learnt has been segmenting. The breaking up of each word into its distinct sounds. Now I know why even my teens had trouble spelling, they've really struggled to do this. However we are making progress. 
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