Apples Daily Spelling Drills

Apples 1 Daily Spelling Drills


An Apple a day will help keep your spelling woes at bay! Apples is designed for the older student (junior high or high school) who struggles with spelling. Have you ever felt like taking your older student back to the beginning with phonics - but hesitate to do so because the available phonics books are so....elementary!? 
 

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Apples 1 Daily Spelling Drills

by Susan Kemmerer

An Apple a day will help keep your spelling woes at bay! Apples is designed for the older student (junior high or high school) who struggles with spelling. Have you ever felt like taking your older student back to the beginning with phonics - but hesitate to do so because the available phonics books are so....elementary!? What you don't need is another spelling program. You don't need spelling lists and tests and more language arts. You just need some simple (but not elementary), daily phonics drills that go over again and again the basic phonics rules. That is exactly what Apples does. Your older student simply goes over one Apple each day, and it will help keep his spelling woes away! Apples is different than any other spelling program out there, taking into consideration the unique needs of poor spellers. Once a week your student is introduced to a spelling rule (called a clue). He will study that rule for the entire week, applying it in all kinds of spelling situations: puzzles, fill-in-th-blank, complete-the-Bible-verse, etc. Some of the clues break a word down into syllables. For example, your student will be taught that the syllable that sounds like "-shun" is usually spelled "-tion." (Exceptions are addressed as well.) Your student will then apply that rule over and over in many different ways: action, motion, redemption, caution, etc. Apples builds another important skill in poor spellers. A good speller can look at a word, and even if they aren't sure how to spell it, they know it doesn't "look" right. Apples introduces your student to this skill by teaching them to recognize mispelled words in sentences with carefully-controlled vocabulary and specific rules. Possibly for the first time in his life, your student will be taught to recognize when a word doesn't "look right" - and if your student is like mine, that's a skill he really needs!

Apples takes less than ten minutes daily. Use it in conjunction with your current language arts program.

To view a sample page from Apples Daily Spelling Drills click here Apples Daily Spelling Drills Sample

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Wow! What a difference an "Apples" a day made for a couple of my former junior high children who had struggled on the spelling end. One of them graduated high school this past year, and you would never know that she used to struggle with spelling; the other is now a senior and though he occasionally runs into a little difficulty, he's remarkably improved his spelling abilities. Short, practical lessons with great use of Scripture too!! It's a toss up between "Apples" and "Daily Grams", but these are quite possibly the best home school purchase I ever made - and I made a lot of them :)

We have used both Apples 1 and 2. They are amazing! We found them very thorough at teaching the nuts and bolts of spelling at the junior high level without the student feeling like the book was too young for them. The child we chose this program for was an extremely strong reader, but their spelling skills lagged far behind their reading level. While they were chosing War and Peace for 'fun' reading, they were still struggling with their spelling. Apples allowed them to review those important phonics/spelling rules in an age appropriate way that did not drag on and on! Our student happily completed both books without a complaint. The daily time commitment is not long at all, but the benefits are great!

I used this book for two of my sons. I found it very "boy-friendly" as both these boys didn't like to write one more thing than absolutely necessary. Apples is a simple, 15-minute-a-day review that even helped me from time to time with spelling certain words that make me think twice, like "le or el" endings. The fonts are fun and the boys barely knew they were learning. Love the cover, too!