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To be an effective communicator a student needs to gain a thorough grasp of the proper spelling of words in the English language. Spelling you see is a program based on years of research into how students learn to spell. Dr. Karen Holinga developed this method and has used this method with hundreds of students in her reading clinic over the past decade with incredible results.
It is important to understand that spelling skills are sequential. Just as a baby learns to crawl, then to walk and finally to run so a student must progress through the stages of spelling. Some programs depend solely on phonics rules to help students learn spelling. Unfortunately there are many words that are exceptions to the rule such as house, there or said. Other programs rely on a rote memory approach. These are the programs that give a word list on Monday and a spelling test on Friday. This approach does not work well because the brain stores the words in short term memory and then promptly discards them a few days after the test. Words need to be linked to a meaningful context in order for their spelling to be transferred to long term memory.
Spelling You See incorporates dictation of words, copying of letters, the reading of words, and the creation of writing passages using newly acquired spelling skills. This is what makes spelling You See successful. While students do use their understanding of phonics as a foundation, they are not required to memorize phonics rules. They are also not given word lists. Instead words are given in the context of interesting passages so that the student memorizes the correct spelling more easily. Tests are not needed because the students spelling skills improve and are reflected in everyday writing. The development of visual memory trains the brain to know what words look like by using those words in meaningful context and repetitively.
So… No memorization of phonics rules, no word lists to memorize, no more forgetting your word lists a few days later. Instead Spelling You See gives you a research based stand-alone spelling program with short lessons times, learning that engage the senses, a stress free learning environment and proven long term results.