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Carrie, will the new guide coming out in August have more spelling dictation? My daughter is already on the last one in the Bigger guide, and I was just wondering what the recommendation will be in the new guide. Should I be looking for a new spelling book program? Thanks for your direction!

Kristi,

I know that there are 2 more levels of dictation in the Preparing guide, so if you're done with the passages in Bigger you'd be ready to move into those.

Kathleen

Oops! I meant to say she's already on the last one in the Preparing guide. Sorry about that mistake. I was wondering what comes after the Preparing guide.

Kristi,

Each of the guides to follow Preparing will have a new level of dictation included until we get through Level 8 of dictation passages with the final guide. Good for your daughter that she is doing so well with dictation! You may wish to choose passages from her literature to use for dictation until the end the year. It works very well. Here's a link to how we've done it:
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Blessings,
Carrie

Another CM-style tip for middle school into high school to extend dictation even further is to have the child study a paragraph or two (in the high school years even a whole page) and then randomely dictate 2-3 sentences (and later a whole paragraph or two) from that passage expecting all of it to be written perfectly. The student checks their written work against the model. Passages of classic literature work wonderfully well for this (and it is tougher than it looks)!

Blessings,
Carrie