Special Offer From "All About Spelling"

I received this offer from All About Spelling this morning, and since it is one of my very favorite programs, I decided to share.

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I have good news and bad news for you.

First the bad news...We are located in the upper Midwest, and severe storms on Tuesday morning left us without power. Due to the power outage, orders that were placed this week were delayed for a few days. We are told that we should have power restored this weekend, and if all goes according to plan, we will ship all orders on Monday via USPS Priority Mail.

Now for the good news...To thank everyone for their patience this week, we want to give you a free gift that you can use right away, without having to wait for shipment. When you place any order, no matter how small, we'll give you the All About Homophones book for free, and you can download it immediately. This popular e-book sells for $27.95 on our website, but today it won't cost you a cent!

Here's how to claim your free book with any purchase: 

1. Add any product(s) to your cart.
2. Do not add the All About Homophones e-book to your cart quite yet.
3. In the upper left corner of the cart, you'll see a box that says "Special Code." Type in these three letters, all in capital letters: AAH. Then click the "Apply" button.
4. The free All About Homophones ebook will appear just above where you enter your shipping information. Click the orange "Add to Cart" button.

You'll receive this e-book automatically, without delay! Enjoy!

Staying warm in chilly Northern Wisconsin,
Marie Rippel :)
www.AllAboutSpelling.com

P.S. If you placed an order on or after October 26, we have already sent you your free copy of the All About Homophones ebook.

P.P.S. Could you please help me spread the word about this special coupon code? Copy and paste these instructions onto Facebook or your blog! This offer ends on Monday, November 1. Thank you for all of your support during this rough week!

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Reading & Writing

Madeline has been making good progress in reading recently.  I have been very happy with the ClickN Read Phonics Program. She has also been using the ABeCeDarian Reading Program along with several sets of Bob Books that I picked up.

 I wanted to add some additional language and writing activities for her.  I really like to idea of a daily journaling time, but I needed motivation for her.  So, I found this book

It contains lots of writing prompts, some of which are a bit too advanced for Madeline right now... the book is recommended for grades 2-6... but some which will work now.  I figured that I would be able to use the ideas for years to come.

I also picked up a couple of out writing resources.  This one has daily practice activities correlated to the 6 Traits of Writing.  I am planning to explain the activities to her and then let her work independently on them.

This book has lots of writing prompts and provides guidance on topic development.  I thought it had a lot of good ideas.

I am also thinking about spelling.  Earlier in the year I thought that I would be using the Making Words books and that would provide an easy spelling list.  I decided not to use those books, however, since the work is very similar to that in the ABeCeDarian Reading Program.  So, I am going to pull spelling words from the work Madeline is doing in both the ABeCeDarian Reading Program as well as from word lists that are provided with the ClickNRead program.  ClickN Read provides both a list of words she is learning in the program as well as Dolch word lists for pre-primer, primer, first grade, second grade, and third grade.  

So, that is my plan for now.  I think it is a good one!