Showing posts with label AVKO Sequential Spelling DVD’s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AVKO Sequential Spelling DVD’s. Show all posts

Thursday, December 15, 2011

AVKO Sequential Spelling DVD’s

AVKO Sequential Spelling DVD’s


The DVD version of Sequential Spelling is manufactured and was developed by a homeschooling brother-sister duo: LeeAnn Earl and Joe Hipps of Instructional Media Innovations (IMI). Levels 2-7 will be released over the course of the next few years. Projected release dates are available on the IMI website. This automated version of DVD is comparable to the book version, with some notable differences. Though the program can be used as-is, it is recommended that the DVD be bought in a bundle with the teacher's book of Sequential Spelling and the Student Response Book for Sequential Spelling. Benefits: * The students can learn spelling on their own, with minimal assistance from the teacher, while still getting the benefits of AVKO's multi-sensory system. * Each word presented in the series is pronounced, used in a contextual sentence, and then pronounced again. You won't have to think of our own sentences anymore or look them up in AVKO's Word Families in Sentence Context. * Being on a video DVD, you have the flexibility of using either a television or a computer. There is no need for a computer or internet access to use the program. * Young children can use the program (as long as they can pause and re-start the DVD player). A reading or spelling ability of about 2nd grade is necessary to use Sequential Spelling effectively (a child's ability to use the DVD version of Sequential Spelling is up to the discretion of the instructor). * After the student attempts the spelling of each word, the word is displayed on the screen, with the word families, prefixes, suffixes, and consonant blends in contrasting colors for easy processing of the word family's pattern. * Each lesson has a "Check List" that the teacher can use to review the student's work for the day -- even without purchasing a copy of the book.

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Friday, July 29, 2011

AVKO Sequential Spelling DVD’s

AVKO Sequential Spelling DVD’s


I love Sequential Spelling, but spelling is one subject that always seemed to get dropped from my homeschool day. With this DVD my daughter does spelling first while I work with her brothers, and it is just as good as if I did it with her. I did not also buy the book and so far haven't felt any need to do so. I just check her list against the screen at the end of each lesson.

My one difficulty with this DVD is that the speaker has a light southern accent which causes some confusion for my child. Sometimes the only way we know whether she is saying, for example, "pin" or "pen" is to listen to the sentence. It's not really a problem, but it is a slight difficulty for her. I guess there's no way around the fact that every speaker will have an accent for someone!

Anyway, I highly recommend this DVD for busy homeschooling families who want to use Sequential Spelling!

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