3rd/4th Grade: Video Spelling Program
At-Home and Online Video Spelling Program (Level I)
Includes:
- 1x Spelling Level I Workbook for Lessons 1-10
- 1x Spelling Level I Workbook for Lessons 11-20
- 20x Lesson Sheets
- 20x Spelling Test Sheets
- 1 Perforated Card Game
- 1 Year Unlimited Online Video Spelling Program Access
At Scholar Within, we transform the challenge of spelling into a skill that children master with confidence and enjoyment. Scholar Within’s Spelling Program is uniquely designed to turn spelling from a chore into an engaging learning experience.
Here’s how:
- Phonics & Spelling Patterns: Understanding spelling begins with mastering phonics. Our program teaches spelling by breaking down words into understandable patterns, making it easier for children to remember and apply.
- Video Lessons: Children learn through engaging video content that builds their phonemic awareness and phonics skills, helping them connect sounds to letters and patterns.
- Puzzles and Games: Reinforce learning with fun spelling puzzles and games that challenge and entertain, ensuring that spelling skills are practiced in a lively and supportive environment.
- Real-World Application: We encourage children to use their new spelling skills in daily activities, enhancing their confidence and competence in writing and reading.
“The video spelling and phonics lessons are like having a private tutor in our home.” – Wendy R.
“You know, we’ve tried various other spelling programs and spelling books. They just didn’t work. Your video lessons really show us exactly how we put letters together to make words. It has made such a difference for my son. I can’t thank you enough!”– Carol K.
Unlimited online access includes 20 weeks of lessons per level.
When you finish the 20 lessons, you can switch to the next level online and print more curriculum at home for free.
Help your child become a confident and accurate speller.
In our online spelling program, your child will learn step-by-step the structure of the English language. They’ll learn how to use the 8 spelling patterns to accurately and confidently spell tens of thousands of words.
This spelling program is research-based and is perfect for homeschoolers, grades K-8, adults that struggle with spelling, and English Language Learners (ELL).
What parents are saying
“The video spelling and phonics lessons are like having a private tutor in our home.”
– Wendy R.
“You know, we’ve tried various other spelling programs and spelling books. They just didn’t work. Your video lessons really show us exactly how we put letters together to make words. It has made such a difference for my son. I can’t thank you enough!”
– Carol K.
“This has been so far so good for my autistic son who struggles with spelling. I like that it doesn’t use boring memorization.”
– Sabrina R.
Scholar Within’s Co-founder Bonnie Terry, M.Ed., BCET has been featured on
3rd/4th Grade Online & Offline Self-paced Spelling Curriculum
The perfect blend of video spelling lessons with offline worksheets and printables
15-30 Minutes a Day, 3 Days a Week
Sequential and Step-by-Step
Self-Paced Video Spelling Lessons and Tests
Spelling Worksheets and Puzzle Printables
Phonics and Word Attack Card Games
Help and Support
Learn How to Spell with Spelling Patterns
How it Works
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Start where your child is currently spelling.
Is your child struggling with spelling? Maybe they are looking to advance faster and make spelling easier. We have different levels for grades K-8 to meet your child where they are.
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Each week, you get a new list of spelling words grouped by spelling pattern.
Each week builds upon the prior week’s knowledge, sequentially. Your child will learn the structure for spelling and spelling will finally make sense.
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At the beginning of each week, your child will follow along with a video spelling lesson.
Your child will fill out a corresponding spelling worksheet as they watch the video. Younger kids can use provided printable letter cards.
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After the spelling lesson, your child gets to do spelling puzzles that go with the lesson.
These are printable activities like word searches, sorting your words, fill-in-the-blank, and more.
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In the middle of the week, younger students do activities to work on letter and pattern recognition.
These are printable activities like completing the pattern and matching uppercase and lowercase letters. They’ll also learn to write simple sentences with provided printable word cards. These activities improve visual perception and fine motor skills.
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In the middle of the week, older students do a spelling pattern recognition activity.
Your child will identify the spelling patterns that they have learned in other sentences. We provide answer keys too! They’ll also write sentences with their spelling words.
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At the end of the week, your child will follow along with a video spelling test.
Your child will fill out a spelling test printable worksheet while they follow along with Bonnie Terry, M.Ed., BCET. They’ll do a pre-test exercise, followed by the test. The test is self-correcting.
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Play new printable card games every couple of weeks.
Your kids can play these games at any time during the week. The games strengthen spelling skills while making learning a lot more fun!
3rd/4th Grade Spelling Curriculum Scope and Sequence
Third and fourth graders quickly strengthen their spelling skills as they learn to spell effortlessly with spelling patterns.
Program Overview
- Sound to letter mapping (the Alphabetic Principle)
- Phonograms
- Vowel pattern letter combinations
- Compound words
- Suffix rules
- Silent and special letter combinations
- Study and word practice strategies
Lessons 1-4
- Vowel-Consonant Pattern: Short vowel words and blends
- Vowel-Consonant Pattern: Short vowel words and digraphs: th, sh, ch, wh
- Vowel-Consonant-Silent E Pattern
- Vowel-Vowel Pattern: Words with ee, ea, oa, and ai
- Puzzles and Application Lessons
Lessons 5-8
- Vowel-Vowel Pattern: Words with oo, ou, ea, and ai
- Vowel + R Pattern: Words like garden and catcher
- Vowel-Vowel + R Pattern: Words like indoors and trapdoor
- Puzzles and Application Lessons
Lessons 9-12
- Vowel-Vowel Pattern: Words with ai, ea, ei, ou, and oa
- Vowel + R Pattern: Words like toaster and leader
- Vowel + L Pattern: Words like hallway and chapel
- Vowel-Vowel + L Pattern: Words like coastal and colorful
- Vowel-Accent Pattern: Two-Syllable words like area and reflect
- Puzzles and Application Lessons
Lessons 13-16
- Vowel + L Pattern: Review
- Vowel-Vowel Pattern: Review
- Consonant + LE Pattern: Words like capable and example
- Vowel + NG Pattern and Vowel + NK Pattern: Words like morning and thankful
- Vowel + W Pattern: Words like shadow and crawling
- The Borrowers C and G: Words like pencil and tragic
- Puzzles and Application Lessons
Lessons 17-20
- Silent and Special Letter Combinations: gh=f, gh, kn, wr, ck
- Suffixes: s. es, ed, ing, tion, sion
- Puzzles and Application Lessons
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Designed by Learning Expert Bonnie Terry, M.Ed., BCET
Bonnie Terry is a board-certified educational therapist with over 35 years of experience. She has custom-designed this spelling program specifically to make spelling easy.
Bonnie spent years developing this program hands-on in her private learning center. She discovered that teaching spelling with 8 simple spelling patterns in a sequential and multisensory way was the most effective method. She has now made her program available to all so that everyone can accurately and confidently spell.
Bonnie Terry has been featured on
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FAQs
Students learn faster and more easily when they work at their current level of ability. This level is called the instructional level of mastery-based learning. Students begin the program at the level of their current spelling skills, whether it is above, below, or at their current grade level. Working through beginning concepts, they move forward sequentially to more advanced concepts.
In our mastery-based program, you place your student according to their ability. We can adjust your student’s level up or down as needed throughout the program This way, the program meets your student at the level where they are currently learning.
As Anna Gillingham, one of the founders of Orton-Gillingham, advised “Go as fast as you can, but as slow as you must.”
When students learn at their instructional level, they become great spellers. With Scholar Within’s spelling program:
- Parents or teachers choose the spelling level, whether it is at grade level, above grade level, or below grade level
- Adjust the level if the material is too easy or too difficult
- Students do the short lessons at their own pace
- Each week’s lesson reviews prior concepts, supporting concept retention and overall learning skills
- Students progress to the next level when they have mastered their current level of material. There are no big gaps from one level to the next.
We only put letters together in 8 different ways. Large words are simply combinations of these 8 spelling patterns. Each syllable in a word has a pattern.
In the sentence below, each word or syllable of a multisyllable word has a spelling pattern:
Learning the spelling patterns one at a time helps make spelling logical, and our multisensory methods help solidify concepts.
There is a structure to the English language. If we teach spelling according to its structure, everyone can spell!
About 90% of our words follow specific patterns. Just like there are patterns in math, there are patterns in spelling. In fact, there are only 8 spelling patterns. Learning 8 spelling patterns is much easier than learning 30 spelling rules or trying to memorize every word.
By using our multisensory step-by-step method, students learn to spell thousands of words without having to memorize 30 or more spelling rules. The lessons are phonetically and sequentially based. Learning to spell with this method strengthens auditory, visual, and tactile-kinesthetic learning skills.
Students often struggle when they try to learn a list of spelling words that includes words with unrelated spellings. When you can make a logical connection from one word to the next and from each spelling list to the next, spelling becomes much easier. Spelling finally makes sense!
We construct each lesson’s spelling list words logically according to spelling patterns. Each week’s lesson builds upon what students have previously learned.
All levels start at the easiest pattern to learn, the Vowel-Consonant Pattern. These are your short vowel syllables and words. Each level’s spelling lists vary in difficulty, according to the level.
Lesson 1 Example Words:
- Kindergarten: it, sit, ran
- 1st-Grade: left, ask, rest
- 2nd-Grade: bump, steps, flat
- 3rd and 4th-Grade: crunch, theft, which
- 5th and 6th-Grade: exact, grasp, establish
- 7th and 8th-Grade: havoc, inhabit, insistent
After students have mastered the first pattern, they continue through the rest of the 8 spelling patterns in a step-by-step sequential order.
Spelling review is built in each week to solidify concepts and to build confidence in your student’s spelling abilities. By the time a student has reached the end of a level, they graduate to the next level for more challenging words.
The short answer is yes!
On the first day, students do the weekly spelling lesson along with Bonnie while watching the video. Video lessons average about 12 minutes in length. Next, students do a puzzle which is typically done in 5 to 8 minutes.
On the second day. students write their words in sentences. Younger students often use the provided word cards for this. Then there are a few perception activities for younger students. Older students do an application lesson. Again, the total time is about 18 – 30 minutes.
The third day is test day. This is done with Bonnie via video. Each test video is about 12 to 15 minutes in length.
We also provide a weekly game that can be done in about 15 minutes on any day of your choosing. This reinforces the skills your student is learning
Many English Language Learners (ELL) have had tremendous success with our spelling program. We show students step-by-step with video and audio exactly how letters sound and how we put letters together to make words.
With our audio-video lessons, students hear the correct pronunciation of sounds and words. They hear the sounds of letters and letter combinations and see how they come together visually to make words.
Additionally, students work alongside the video lessons with worksheets and printables. There are puzzles, games, and application lessons, too. The program uses the best practices for teaching ELL students.
Sounds and Letter Combinations
Spelling can be challenging for many ELL students. Different students bring different language experiences into the learning environment, whether at home or in school. One of the most important parts of learning spelling is to have an auditory and visual model for the letter sounds and patterns in the English language.
We show students exactly how letters come together to make words in just 8 simple ways with our video lessons. We model the specific sounds of letters and letter combinations and how they come together to make words. Students learn specific spelling patterns and also play with them in a variety of ways through puzzles, games, and activities.
Students with learning disabilities, ADHD, and dyslexia often struggle with spelling.
Our homeschool spelling program integrates research-proven multisensory learning with the Orton-Gillingham approach to teaching spelling in a way that your child will finally understand. We accomplish this with a bite-sized activity-based approach. Our short activities ensure all children’s success. It’s perfect for those with short attention spans or ADHD.
This program has been designed by learning disabilities expert and board-certified educational therapist Bonnie Terry, M.Ed., BCET. Bonnie has worked with children and adults of all abilities for over 30 years and has discovered the code for the best way to teach spelling. In addition to learning spelling, your children will also improve their overall auditory, visual, and tactile-kinesthetic processing skills to make overall learning easier.
Research on teaching reading and spelling dates back to the early 1930s, first with Samuel Orton and then later with Anna Gillingham. They developed a teaching approach, the Orton-Gillingham method (OG), to help struggling readers and spellers. Their teaching methods include what is currently considered best practices: sequential, phonics-based systems that teach the basics of word formation before whole meanings.
Learning through all three pathways (auditory, visual, and tactile-kinesthetic) is essential. This multisensory approach has been proven effective for students of all abilities, including those with dyslexia and other learning challenges.
The Scholar Within Spelling Program incorporates these OG principles and strategies along with the latest research on learning.
Orton-Gillingham Instructional Components for Optimal Learning:
- Multisensory: Uses all of the senses (auditory, visual, and tactile-kinesthetic)
- Sequential: Proceeds step-by-step in a logical sequence
- Incremental: Each lesson builds upon prior learning
- Cumulative: Constantly and consistently reviews previously taught concepts
- Individualized: Meets each student’s individual needs
- Phonogram-Based: Words are based on combining letters and letter combinations known as phonograms (the sound-symbol relationship, also known as the Alphabetic Principle)
- Explicit: Stated clearly and in a detailed manner
OG-Based Specific Steps for Teaching and Learning Spelling
- Teach the letter-sound relationships both explicitly and in isolation
- Give multiple opportunities in every lesson to practice the sound-symbol relationship
- Review daily previously taught sound-symbols and gradually add new sound-symbols (letters)
- Practice and apply these sound-symbol relationships with familiar phonetically-spelled words
- Play with the language; the more you play with words, the better your skills become
In this spelling program, your child will improve auditory processing and listening skills.
Your child will:
- Listen to a sound at a time
- Map the sounds to letters on paper or with letter cards
- Practice saying the words, spelling the words, and writing the words
- Listen to the proper pronunciation of words and vowel combinations
- Improve auditory processing skills including auditory discrimination, auditory closure, auditory-visual integration, and more
In this spelling program, your child will see and understand the structure of the English language.
Your child will:
- Visualize spelling patterns for each syllable
- See exactly how the spelling patterns work within words
- Learn techniques to see spelling words in your mind’s eye
- Group words into specific patterns and sound combinations
- Identify letter combinations with vowel patterns like /oo/ /au/ /ee/ /oa/ and more
- Develop visual tracking, visual figure-ground, and visual closure skills
In the spelling program, your child will get moving and learn by doing movement or touch learning abilities.
Your child will:
- Associate each sound to each letter combination using motor skills, directionality, and laterality skills
- Each spelling lesson involves all of the major pathways to the brain
- The tactile activities cement in the learning
- Write words or form words with letter cards while following along with the audio-video lessons
- Manipulate letter and word combinations playing our card games to reinforce spelling skills and vocabulary and increase learning retention, all while having fun
Reviews from Parents
E Emily R.
This was a great program for my homeschooling kids this past year. They were able to learn at a steady pace and be mostly independent in their work. This is the best spelling program I have used in many years of homeschooling.
P Penny R.
This spelling program has given my 6 year old granddaughter so much confidence. She felt sad she struggled with trying to understand spelling at school, now she can’t wait to write. Thank you.
A Amanda K.
I love this program.
J Julie G.
We are so grateful for this program. The program made an incredibly positive impact on my son. He is so much more comfortable spelling, henceforth more comfortable writing as well.
My son looks forward to spelling class and is a confident speller. In one year of using this program, my son moved up 4 grades on the Standford 10 test. The program far exceeded my expectations.
Y Yuanyuan P.
My son loves the spelling program and he is making huge progress. Many thanks!
M Michael h.
Great lesson pacing which promotes consistency and familiarity with each session.
M Marissa B.
My three children have made great strides in spelling since starting the program! I’ve found the website format to be a little challenging at times, but I still highly recommend! Customer service has been top notch.
J Jennifer B.
I homeschool my 10 year old twins and we have not traditionally had a strong spelling curriculum mainly because they learned to read in a school program and we began homeschooling at 2nd grade. I was really concerned that they were behind in spelling. We were able to sign up for this program so easily. My kids, who do not work on computers really at all yet were able to easily navigate the program on their own after the first lesson. They love the various exercises offered. I appreciate that the curriculum matches up well with some components of the curriculum they encounter with homeschooling with Classical Conversations Essentials of the English Language. Orton-Gillingham based theory is so reliable and successful and the kids enjoy the exercises and autonomy of working through the lessons. Thank you for this great program and for restoring my confidence that we can tackle spelling the right way at home!
C Carol K.
You know, we’ve tried various other spelling programs and spelling books. They just didn’t work. Your video lessons really show us exactly how we put letters together to make words. It has made such a difference for my son. I can’t thank you enough!
N Nastassia N.
Started 3/10/2021. My daughter’s spelling is improving already. Before the program, she received 5 wrong out of 13 for a pop spelling quiz. She received the actual quiz with those same words and a few more and got all correct. Of course her teacher was excited and gave her a prize. She was the only student to get them all correct. She received another pop spelling quiz today and got 16 correct out of 20. Your method is working. I am a very happy mom. Wish I could attach photos to prove….. so amazing. Parents, do not hesitate to try. Thanks a million for this wonderful program. Hope to purchase the reading program to get her way ahead.
L Lynn F.
This is a simple approach to teaching children to be able to spell any word by using 8 basic spelling patterns. I like the fact that I can use it with all my children who are of writing and spelling age. It does start off very easy, as it is sequential. My third-grader and eighth-grader easily learned the patterns and liked the spelling puzzle worksheets. Spelling time became easy and fun!
S Suzy U.
I never knew spelling could be so easy. I always thought there were so many words that didn’t fit the ‘rule’. Now I understand the structure of our words. It is so easy. Why didn’t anyone ever tell me that before. Your program makes it so easy for my kids, and I’m learning, too!
A Anne B.
My son knows the patterns. He spells very well now. I’m very impressed with the strides he’s made in spelling.
C Cliff W.
I got the spelling program for myself. Spelling has always been hard for me. I’ve tried many different spelling programs over the years. This one worked. Spelling is much easier now. I no longer make the spelling mistakes I have been famous for. What a difference this has made in my life. I actually understand spelling. Thanks, Bonnie!
L Lipa S.
I am an adult student. I was really hoping to finally master spelling. I just wanted you to know that my spelling is getting better by the day. Thanks so much!
M Marcia B.
I’m an elementary reading teacher with 30 years of experience. Scholar Within’s Spelling Program makes clear on a step-by-step basis how we put letters together to make words. For the first time, my students see the 8 spelling patterns. The kids see the patterns with all of their words. It doesn’t take them long to become proficient at it. It just takes a few days of using the program and my students’ spelling improves.
A Ann E.
I’m a veteran teacher, but new to first grade this year. Your clear explanations have really helped, as well as the technique you are using!
S Shelly B.
Once we started working with your spelling system, the difference was incredible. It made such a difference in my daughter’s life. Your system gave me an actual step-by-step way to help her. My daughter now spells without difficulty. Thank you.
W Wendy R.
We enrolled in the spelling program because my son couldn’t spell even simple words. Lo and behold, he can spell them and a lot more now. He ‘gets’ how we put letters together to make words. And, thankfully, he doesn’t have to memorize 30 spelling rules! The video and audio lessons are like having a private tutor in our home.
H Heidi P.
Spelling is much easier for my son. If your student is having trouble with the spelling rules, focusing on the eight spelling patterns may be just what they need to get them over the hurdle.
R Regina A.
The spelling videos showed us step-by-step the structure. You really made spelling easy for my kids. The way you explain it, it really sinks in. Your materials help build my kids’ self-esteem up. They’re short quick activities. We love playing the games, too. Thanks again for your program!
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