I think a friend gave me this book. Thank you to her, because that’s vastly improved our homeschooling lives. No more complaining during spelling time. Our old spelling list was a list of random words.

The AVKO spelling book has lists of words that are related to each other and build on each other. So the first word on the list is a short word, and the later words on the list (some of them) contain the same ending. Themes within lists go on for days.

Here’s another cool thing: the instructions are that you correct the student right away when they make an error. How cool! They’re not going to write in incorrectly for weeks, only to find out on a quiz that they had it wrong.

It’s also nice and simple. There are word lists, do one a day. That’s it!

I really, really love this spelling book and highly recommend it to all homeschoolers, and also to kids in school who maybe need a different way to learn spelling.