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Posted: June 30 2008 at 12:42pm | IP Logged Quote missionfamily
I am getting ready to order this for my 10yo ds for next year. I have read in various places that just using the flash cards would be as effective as ordeirng the whole book. I'm wondering if anyone can give me a more clear explanation of why this might be so. I don't want to order have it. Input anyone?

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Posted: June 30 2008 at 1:18pm | IP Logged Quote Rachel May
The book has pronunciation which the cards don't.

Both list the meaning of the root, whether it is from Latin or Greek, and multiple words that come from the root.

Sometimes the book will have a small paragraph discussing something of interest that is related--like how the months got their names on the "decem" page.

The book has some general teaching ideas, but nothing like a lesson plan or even specific instruction on how to use the program (that I recall at the moment, but I can go check).

We read the back of the cards together and then practiced memorizing them in groups of 5 or ten for about 5 minutes a day and had memorized the first 100 by the end of the school year.

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