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• Jan. 3, 2006 - Diacritical markings/phonics/spalding...what's the difference?


Does anyone have any feeling in particular about diacritical markings and spalding methods?  My daughter learned to read with the spalding method (outside of the fact that we were reading in our home consistently) and I am wondering what the supporters /opposers of these methods may have to say.  We use the Weaver curriculum as our core and they speak of diacritical markings for the vocab and spelling words we implement.  I have not used them because it seems that it would take a teacher to understand all the different markings!  Shayla doesn't appear to be lacking in her reading skills and she enjoys reading very much.  However, we are looking toward teaching our youngest to read in the next year and I would like to make a more informed decision.  We will be using Read 1-2-3 by Weaver which is a phonics based program and I will be considering implementing other methods based on research and recommendation.  Please do share your wealth of knowledge!

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• Jan. 3, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by JenIG
sorry! i'll not be much help in this area. i'm still trying to find the perfect program.
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• Jan. 4, 2006 - I can't really help you as I'm

Posted by vgarr
not familiar with any of it.

I taught my 5 year old using Teach Your child To Read in 100 Ez lessons. She was 3.5 at the time and now reads at a 6th grade level.
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• Jan. 6, 2006 - SWR

Posted by Honeybee
We are using Spell to Write and REad which is the Spalding method made useable. Wanda Sanseri has made it incredibly doable and it works so amazingly! We are very happy. You might check out the Yahoo loop on SWR. They always post for newbies with the benefits and such.
Good luck!
Melissa
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