10 Minutes A Day Spelling Ages 7-11 KS2

Perfect material to expand on spelling knowledge for 4th graders.

My granddaughter struggles with distraction. This book keeps her engaged and she enjoys the work while being challenged

An workbook for my son

I'm a linguist with 15+ years teaching experience and 4 years experience in materials design. Trust me when I say that this book is mostly useless. It doesn't teach how to spell words. Rather, it assumes that the learner already knows how to spell. For example, an activity might present pictures of a bear, a pear, a hare, and a square and ask the learner to spell the words. It thus assumes that the learner already knows that bear and pear end in -ear, but square and hare end in -are. Ok fine, maybe the goal is fluency practice? No. Each activity involves spelling each word exactly one time in only one context. Fluency would require expanding context with plenty of repetition. None of that here at all. I can imagine this book being useful in one situation - you want to teach your kid to spell, but don't have the background knowledge to know what to focus on. In that case, the book does indeed present kids with a good set of important spelling contrasts in age-appropriate words. Honestly though, you'd be better off just giving your kid a blank sheet of paper and asking them to copy words from their other books until the page is full. Boring? Of course! But infinitely better for them and a lot cheaper.

This book is not a very good teaching tool. My daughter (age 11, 5th grade, and reading at a highschool level) and I (a former valedictorian & college graduate) find this book confusing and frustrating. The only reason I am having her stick with it is to teach her perseverance through tough stuff.

Thought this would have a lists of spelling words 4th grades should learn. Instead it was more of an language arts book. Daughter and I felt like the instructions are a little confusing/ didn’t give enough explanation. Would not by again.

BEWARE - this is British English, not American English. I feel this should be stated somewhere for the consumer to know before purchasing. This will cause confusion for American students and it's not necessarily obvious for parents. However, this will be clear with spellings like "recognise" instead of "recognize" or "programme" instead of "program". I would not have purchased this book if this was made clear. Very deceiving.

The book failed big for my student because it never actually shows you how the spelling words are suppose to be written its a quess what letters are missing technique that never reveals to the student if they get it wrong until you correct their work. Big fail in my home school curriculum.

Good for kids

got the book for my son to practice over the summer holidays, keeping the mind sharp :) really good tool, we have set either 10 minute timers or a few pages for each day, easy questions, nothing that they haven't covered in school or taken him by surprise, easy to navigate & use

Good

Good book.

Good product