Found this article at The Thinking Mother‘s Blog. She also has a post about teaching spelling in general which I find very interesting and is making me rethink next year’s spelling for Sam.
I don’t think it will cause me more work but instead of teaching the words first, I am thinking I should introduce the rule and then the words. Or the roots… at some point I will do that. Haven’t really gotten my brain around how to deal with roots. We are going to be introducing latin in the fall, so he will be getting some latin roots then.
Always something to think about.