Immediate Results
Your children get immediate results with Sequential
Spelling. Minimize study time and reduce test-taking
anxiety! Sequential Spelling teaches students to recognize
patterns of spelling based on the rules of the English language,
but without all the complicated explanations.
Don McCabe, the author, faced a great dilemma. He
served in the Army Security Agency during the Korean
War. He suffered from dyslexia, but he either had to
learn the Russian language or receive a first-class ticket
to serve in the infantry in Korea. He overcame his dyslexia
and learned Russian. After the war, he founded
the AVKO (Audio-Visual-Kinesthetic-Oral) Educational Research
Foundation, Inc., and dedicated himself to teaching
dyslexics how to spell and read through a multi-sensory
approach. The result: Sequential Spelling.
You ask your children to spell a simple root word or
suffix, such as — "in (from Volume 1), and, to help them
understand the meaning, you use the word in a sentence.
Once your students have attempted to spell the
word and before you give the next word, you give them
the correct spelling and let them correct their own work
immediately.
Each successive day you ask students to spell more
words that contain "in", such as pin, sin, spin, skin, and
twin. You add more patterns through a sequence based
on research and the structure of English words — from the
root word to expanded forms. In Sequential Spelling 1,
students begin with "in" on the first day and within five
days they can spell beginning all on their own.
Notice that you never ask your students to "study"
more words, only to spell them. As they recognize more
and more patterns and begin to spell words correctly that
they've never seen before — all without "studying" — their confidence and spelling skills soar!
Sequential Spelling comes in 7 progressive levels of
difficulty. It's a Required Resource in Language Arts from
Core D-Core 100, and a component of Multi-Subject Packages 3-5.
If you have never used Sequential Spelling before,
McCabe urges you to begin with Volume 1 because,
while your students might be "ready" to spell frightened
(Volume 4), they really ought to know the patterns associated
with spelling presidential (Volume 1). The truth
is, the levels have absolutely nothing to do with grade
levels per se.
McCabe used a scientific method to evaluate 5,500
words from The New Iowa Spelling Scale (Greene), rank
them from easiest to most difficult, and then to identify
the patterns in those words. The words in Volume 1 tend
to have a higher number of words to each pattern and are
essentially the "simple" words of our language. Volume
1 students spell the word presidential but only after they
have studied many, many, -ide words in their progressive,
structural permutations. Examples: hide, ride, side,
reside and preside gradually build to resident, residential,
and, of course, president and presidential.
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