Review: All About Reading
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Well, it seems that I’ve never met an All About Spelling product that I didn’t like. First, I was able to review their incredible spelling program with which I have absolutely fallen in love. I wish I’d had the spelling program when Brianna was younger. It’s one of the best I’ve seen, with its hands-on, multi-sensory approach based on Orton-Gillingham principals. Then, there was the Beehive Reader (which has a new name: Cobweb the Cat) which correlates perfectly with All About Spelling Level 1.
Now, there’s a brand-new reader that was slated to be available on April 1 on All About Spelling’s brand-new website, All About Reading. The What Am I? reader is another beautifully-illustrated, hardback book that correlates with lessons 1-14 of the Level 2 spelling program.
With ten fully-illustrated longer stories that reinforce what your child is learning in his All About Spelling curriculum, the same glare-free pages as the Beehive Reader, and a compact size the fits comfortably in the hands of young readers, What Am I? is the perfect complement to the Level 2 workbook. Like the Beehive Reader Cobweb the Cat, What Am I? lays flat for easy reading, as well.
I love what the folks at All About Spelling — and now, All About Reading — are doing with their curriculum offerings. I’ve never seen a spelling program that so thoroughly reinforces all the phonics instruction a beginning reader is receiving through a typical phonics-based approach reading curriculum, then, further cements that instruction with quality readers that follow the scope and sequence of the spelling program. This combination serves to give a young reader confidence as he reads words with which he has become familiar through spelling.
What Am I? is available for $19.95 on the All About Reading site.
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Kris Bales is a newly-retired homeschool mom and the quirky, Christ-following, painfully honest founder (and former owner) of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers. She has a pretty serious addiction to sweet tea and Words with Friends. Kris and her husband of over 30 years are parents to three amazing homeschool grads. They share their home with three dogs, two cats, a ball python, a bearded dragon, and seven birds.