{"id":3898,"date":"2015-09-29T10:22:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2015-09-29T16:02:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T20:02:37","slug":"introducing-the-spelling-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/introducing-the-spelling-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing The Spelling Notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fifteen years ago I began writing my complete language arts program for second through twelfth grade students (what is now Character Quality Language Arts<\/em>, CQLA<\/a>). I based that program, loosely, on six programs (language arts, editing, writing, vocabulary, spelling, etc., programs) that I had been using for a dozen years with my older children. I wanted to take all of the best \u201cpart language arts\u201d books and put them together in one. And I did that!<\/p>\n

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One of the programs I had used with my kids was a spelling classification book, a book in which students record their spelling words on pages that are labeled with the various word families and other commonalities. I loved this program and had used it in conjunction with the other aforementioned books. When I created my complete language arts program, I created a book similar to the one I had used\u2014with several changes. For one thing, mine was longer and more detailed. I found myself having to add columns and pages too often. Additionally, I didn\u2019t feel that the book that I had used had enough explanation of the various sounds (for those using it with random spelling lists, I thought it should give more \u201cteaching\u201d on the sounds and spelling patterns).<\/p>\n

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Also, I had, had some success using that spelling categorization system with my emerging reader (who also enjoyed writing\/penning). Therefore, I knew that I wanted my Spelling Notebook to go through all of the sounds\/patterns\/word families that a new reader would encounter (in the order they are usually taught) so that students could use it to record words as they learned sounds for reading.<\/p>\n

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So I knew what I wanted for spelling to go with CQLA right away. And The Spelling Notebook<\/em> was created.<\/p>\n

Fast forward fifteen years later. The Spelling Notebook<\/em> is still available from Character Ink (our small press publishing company) and Rainbow Resource Center. This summer my graphic designer and I put a new cover on it and made it into a download that public, private, and homeschools could download for their students so that even more kids could benefit from this systematic resource. (To see how to use this book, check out this demo video<\/strong><\/a>!)<\/p>\n

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