Evan Moor Spell Write Grade 4

hi everyone welcome back to my channel so today I'm going to share with you part two of my Evan Moore workbook review as say in my last video got sent couple things to honest and review on my channel and used with my kids which was super fun to be able to do that and test some new things out and see what would work for us today I'm gonna show you skill sharpeners great for spell and right now the reason that got this in particular is because my ten-year-old so my what she's supposed to be is fourth grader if she was in public school we have never done any sort of film film formal spelling or writing curriculum ever spelling in particular I've never felt need to have formal curriculum for maybe because I'm naturally good speller and felt like lot of the reason that am good speller or that have been in the past at least is because just read lot so it's one of those things that think for lot of people they can just pick it up naturally through reading and seeing the words constantly and they just kind of get stamped into your mind her spelling don't know where she's at in her spelling you know for her age group think she does alright she still misspells plenty of things so want to get this just to see where she's at and see if she was receptive to formal spelling workbook or curriculum of any type and plus I've never used one so had no idea how you even approached formal spelling the spelling was something that's in school that never felt was really useful for me that was just me so yeah don't have much experience with it so the way this book was set up is you read short story so like that aspect of it and my kids do too because they enjoy reading so these are more things these end up being more like fiction type stories let me see let me flip through it really quick yeah it was more like nonfiction which liked and my ten-year-old like think the age group likes getting little bit more factual things if you know what I'm saying so they read the story and then the first thing they do is find their spelling words so it says go back and see if you can find these words in your story and then over the next few pages they just work with these words so can you see this so they just rewrite them you know really simple standard spelling practice and then they work with them in the sentence so they find the word in the sentence and then they correct this spelling so it's finding your words just copying them and then was gonna say this word right here explode not exploding them and then finding them in sentence and then correcting them and then like this part but there's definitions are part of it as well so you had to match up the definition part of whole so what is part of whole which word would fit that and that was peace and then human beings so that was kind of fun had to work with her on this because she didn't quite understand what was going on because she's not used to you know books like these and then another thing that is included or was included with this particular section was what type of sentences so like decorative interrogate 'iv imperative exclamatory and then it gives you list of definitions with what those means so you want you read the sentence and then you try to decide what kind of sentence is this because it doesn't give you now this is something that confused me and didn't particularly like is it didn't give I'm sure this is part of it it didn't give the what is the thing my mind just went the ending think periods exclamation marks things of that nature it doesn't didn't include those on the end of the sentence which is huge clue to what kind of sense it was so guess it wants you to read them and then try to guess for yourself so we watch the tree explode as lightning struck it's the first one right here you see that we watch the tree explode as the lightning no I'm all over the place guys we watch the tree explode is lightning struck which for me you could put exclamation mark on there and be like we watched the tree explode as the lightning struck or it can just be statement we just watched it as it struck so kind of let her freeform with that and how she would say those kind of sentences maybe that's the point of it was little confused there and then this part she particularly liked were you used the words in story and you try to put them in their correct spot so she liked that so overall she she did seem to enjoy using this workbook again if you watched my last video you read one little bit and it has quite few review pages or pages where you're working with that particular story and that theme of words which is good for lot of review but you know for my kids it's little it's just little much by the time they're at the end of it they're like can we just move on to the next story less so for my ten-year-old because she has more stamina so she would do couple pages at time on her own and what liked about this is she was able to do lot of this independently we again use this as part of our morning work morning warm-up and for her in particular am looking for more things that she can do independently and just practice just get the juices flowing not necessarily teach her independently everything she needs to know but am moving towards her doing more independent work which she is fully capable of want to share one more thing though from this book that she liked this was poetry time so you use the the words that we're all like storm themed from this particular section and it gives you an acrostic poem so this says tornado and then you're supposed to start you know you're lying with the particular letter and she had never done this before and she really enjoyed making poem out of these words so for the most part this was win some of the things she was confused about and got frustrated so would have to sit down and explain something to her which fully expect to do but you know for her for ten-year-old and her in particular this wasn't too much this was just the right amount to get her going challenge her little bit but not be overwhelming and again she would just do like two pages day and not every single day just couple morning's week let's see what did we we've moved on to the next one yep so the next one was like comments and then again like probably six or seven pages per story and theme so yeah enjoyed that and will definitely keep workbooks like these as part of our morning rotation just to make things you know what's the word I'm looking for just for variety in practice good warm-ups good practice but yeah hope you guys enjoyed watching this and getting peek inside of books like these know have been curious about even more products in the past but I've never used them before so it was fun to be able to use them and try them out and if you're interested and checking these out some more I'll leave link below where you can look at that but hope you guys enjoyed watching and will see you all again really soon