Spell to Write And Read / Core Kit - Teacher's Edition [Paperback]

Wanda Sanseri (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Back Home Industries (June 30, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1880045311
• ISBN-13: 978-1880045312
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 8.2 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,555 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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69 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SWR-The Best Way to Teach Reading and Spelling, August 31, 2006

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homeschool mom to seven children - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spell to Write And Read / Core Kit - Teacher's Edition (Paperback)

The SWR Core Kit listed here includes: Spell to Write and Read which is the overall teachers manual to the, WISE Guide for Spelling, Phonogram Cards and Spelling Rule Cards, Phonogram CD. If purchased separately, the five items in the SWR Core Kit would be $100. You save by buying them together and only pay $98 for the SWR Core Kit.

The set of books in the SWR Core Kit can teach up to college level spelling for all the children in your family or school. The only thing you need to purchase each year is a Learning Log (spelling note book) where the kids write their words.

I use Spell to Write and Read with all my children. I have home schooled my seven children for 9 years now and Spell to Write and Read (SWR) by Wanda Sanseri is the best and most significant program I have ever used to teach my children to spell, read, and write. I would never go back to my old ways of teaching.

In our first year with SWR all four of my boys made great strides in reading and spelling. My 6 and 7 years old boys jumped up by two grade levels in spelling. Their improvement in reading was dramatic. After only one year with SWR my 6 and 7 year old sons were able to read 4th grade level books with ease. This year they are now 7 and 8 years old and able to read a 180 page chapter book, such as the Childhood of Famous American series, in only 4 days! For a 180 chapter book I break the reading sessions down to: 23 pages in the morning and 22 pages in the afternoon. They are very normal sword fighting, tree climbing boy, and now with SWR also great readers!

My oldest two boys, ages 11 and 14 jumped up by four and five grade levels in one year with SWR as measured by the spelling diagnostic test. Though my 11 and 14 year old sons were good readers by the time they started with SWR, they needed work in spelling. I found out the hard way that good readers are not always good spellers! In our second year with SWR and the older boys were 12 and 15. They tested at 11.7 grade level on the spelling diagnostic test by the end of the year. This is truly excellent and we are all pleased!

It is our third year with SWR and the younger set of boys are now 8 and 9 years old. By local school enrollment law and practice they would be in 2nd and 3rd grade and they just tested at 6.0 and 6.4 grade level on the spelling diagnostic! You can bet I am mighty satisfied with SWR!

Homeschool mom of seven

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Spell to Write and Read/Core Kit Teacher's Edition, March 24, 2008

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This review is from: Spell to Write And Read / Core Kit - Teacher's Edition (Paperback)

Love this product. I as a teacher/homeschool mom am starting to understand the english language far better than I ever have before. This product is systematic in it's teaching of phongrams, spelling rules, and writing. For me as a teacher I can better teach how and why words are spelled and sound the way they do. I love learning the spelling rules with my children. The book is user friendly but it took me two times through to get all the steps I am supposed to use with the children. I didn't learn this way in school so it is a new way of learning for all of us. What a great way to lay out the english language to learn to read and spell! My daughter, who is dyslexic and my 5 year old son are both getting great results. It seems slow at first but soon enough they are reading whole books not just simple short vowel readers.

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent choice, May 12, 2007

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Heather Baker (NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spell to Write And Read / Core Kit - Teacher's Edition (Paperback)

This kit is one of the best items you can buy for your child's learning. I have used this in teaching first grade and also with teaching my own children when they were in middle/high school. Whatever the age of the children you are teaching, this will help with both their reading and their spelling. It is an incredible learning tool.