How I Teach LANGUAGE ARTS In Our Homeschool | Homeschool READING & SPELLING

Do you have any favorite resources or tips for reading and spelling?

Love these ideas. Thanks these are great ideas even if you are not homschooling. Great practice ideas for spelling.

This was fantastic. I appreciate the all about spelling explanation and your organization system! I am planning to start AAS next year with my daughter. And my son is a great speller but I still want him to do a little spelling next year (he will be in fifth grade) so that McGuffey reader is a great idea!

I really LOVE how you do spelling with the spelling word list. Saving that! Simple and works with the reading they’re already doing.

Just what I was looking for! An explanation of what is done in each part of Language Arts. We are using TGTB, but feeling my kids need something else for spelling and writing to master those skills. Thanks!

This was such a helpful video! Thank you so very much!

Hi, new subscriber here! I purchased all about spelling last year and hated so much. All those rules made my teacher's brain hurt. I then decided not to purchase any other spelling curriculum for my daughter, it passed a year and she seemed to be doing fine an she excels in reading. When my friends asked me what I used for phonics and spelling I said "nothing " they gave me that look and I started feeling self conscious about not having one... now watching your video I realized that I am not the only one not using a spelling curriculum for non dyslexic kids and made me feel much better. Thank you, I'm in peace again.

New follower/homeschool mom here….. THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!! ❤️❤️❤️ only a few minutes in and you’ve made me feel sooooo much better abt reading. You’ve given such great tips. THANK YOU! Love your channel ❤️

We love All About Reading and Spelling too. It makes so much sense to my son. It has been a huge help in our homeschool. I so agree that it is important to teach to our kids at their level...not necessarily by age/grade. It makes such a huge difference in our homeschool.

This was very much needed. 💜💜💜💜

We are huge fans of All About Reading!

Was strongly considering all about spelling. Just have felt we need a bit more and something they can do with their hands. Thanks for covering this!

I have been waiting for this video. Thank you! It was a good affirmation that we are on the right path. I love the stay up late reward for finishing book reports!!! Last summer I gave my son a dollar per chapter book. I can't afford to do that again 😆

We use a mix of curriculum too, and this year added Learning Language Arts through Literature and Wordsmith Apprentice, in addition to Christian Light's Reading. 9 year old doing Good and Beautiful and adding reinforcement has really helped improve writing composition+. Thank you for this video Erin!

Thank you so much, My 6-year-old daughter, doesn't remember words easily, even the phonics, and the principal in her school said maybe she has dyslexia, but we have not yet gone to the doctor. This is very helpful for a beginner. ❤

My oldest is in 2nd grade, and we use Logic of English. We just finished up Foundations and have begun their Essentials program. I love how they teach the rules and make sense of our language.

It is very teacher intensive it we have been using Saxon Phonics for 1st grade. My son is in 2nd grade but we are going through it slowly because it is so in depth and so rule driven. It may be boring but my goodness it is good. As far as grammar, I maybe chastised but I haven’t taught it yet. We will start that after we finish the phonics and he will pick it up so we’ll because his reading skills are there. We have taken two years to go through this one phonics course but his spelling is awesome. We practice previous lessons spelling at least three times a week. No rhyme or rules I pick what I want to review and we work with that rule.

We use Logic of English and so far it has been a good fit for my daughter.

Beth: we've seen Thinking Tree dyslexia games work really well for our niece who struggles with dyslexia. We've used Explode The Code and books for learning to read with my 4 and my sister's other 2 kids. They are easy and funny. We've used spell u see for spelling, which one of my kids still wants so she still uses. Another middle schooler uses Apples spelling workbook which teaches the rules behind spelling. The third child uses a spelling list with test on Friday approach. The final kid had moved into another program for his schooling, as a highschooler he mostly learned just from reading a ton of books. Grammar: We've used fix it grammar. Didn't love it. So now using Phunny Stuph for middle schooler, combined with Hot Fudge Mondays. She also uses Writer's In Residence by applogia. Younger kids are using Essentials in Writing, and have used both writers and readers in residence by applogia. There arent a lot in the series but they are fantastic. Have also used Thinking Tree 30 grammar mistakes. Eclectic is definitely our jam.

We used All About Reading 1-4 and then went in to All About Spelling. I didn’t enjoy teaching both at the same time. But my daughter caught on quick so we finished at the end of 1st grade. 😀 we’re just finishing AAS 2. 👍🏻 Loving it. Once we finish that I’m goong to have to remember that McGuffy book! I wasn’t sure where to go from AAS. ☺️