Dictation vs Spelling

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moedertje
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Dictation vs Spelling

Post by moedertje » Sat Feb 28, 2009 9:03 am

I have a question about the philosophy behind Dictation vs Spelling. Carrie mentioned that she preferred Dictation over Spelling at older grades and I had personally not heard before that one can replace Spelling with Dictation. My son is at the young age of the manuals and he is a great speller, but it just makes me nervous to stop doing spelling with him since I had not heard of this replacement by dictation before. We are going into BHFHG in the fall. I plan to do the 2nd grade spelling list with him for now.
It would help me if someone could explain this to me.
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mskogen
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Re: Dictation vs Spelling

Post by mskogen » Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:55 am

Great question I would be interested too. We use Spelling Power and really like it. Thanks
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Re: Dictation vs Spelling

Post by lmercon » Sat Feb 28, 2009 2:06 pm

Here is a past thread that my help you with this. I know the CM style does encourage dictation as a more natural approach to learning spelling, as the child is seeing the words in the context of a sentence. I'm sure others will chime in here as well.

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1246
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moedertje
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Re: Dictation vs Spelling

Post by moedertje » Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:33 pm

Thank you Imercon,

The previous post really helped me in my understanding. I had not seen it!
Raising Arrows; Psalms 127:4
ds17, Class of 2020, now at IHOPU
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In year 1 of homeschooling it all started with LHTH for us.
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