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Can Spelling Success be used for anything other than spelling words? — YES! Creative parents have found many other ways to utilize the teaching strategies provided by this program to help their kids meet a variety of academic goals. Spelling Success has been used to teach phonics, spelling, vocabulary, geography, states/capitals abd scientific symbols. One parent even taught her disabled child how to spell his first and last name and his phone number. The program was also specifically designed to allow children to practice math facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) to be practiced. For example, a parent types the number "24" and says "what is 6x4?"

Another side benefit of Spelling Success is the increased key boarding skills kids acquire while they are having fun and learning a variety of academic skills

What are some educational goals that can be attained with the program? — Spelling Success is versatile and can accommodate a wide variety of spelling levels. The program will help your child to build phonological awareness and phonics skills. Your child will experience hearing, identifying and blending phonemes into words. With Spelling Success your child will recognize and explore sound patterns and relate these to patterns in letters. This will help your child to build word and letter recognition skills, in order to: recognize and correctly spell words with common spelling patterns. Spelling Success will help your child to spell high-frequency sight words and other familiar words.

Sample READING/SPELLING Goals:

CVC Words –

to discriminate and type all three phonemes in CVC words

to blend phonemes to read and spell CVC words in rhyming and non-rhyming word sets

to represent in writing the three phonemes in CVC words, spelling them first in rhyming sets, then in non-rhyming sets

Consonant Clusters -

to investigate, read and spell words ending in ff, ll, ss, ck

to discriminate, read and spell words with final consonant clusters, e.g. nd, lp, st

to identify separate phonemes within words containing clusters in speech and writing

to blend phonemes in words with clusters

Long Vowel Sounds -

to learn and use the common spelling patterns for long vowel phonemes: ee ai ie oa oo, ow, ar, or, ir and ear

to identify long vowels within speech and writing

to blend and segment long vowel phonemes for spelling

Correctly spell High Frequency Words -

to spell and read high frequency words in and out of context