Word flippers are great for this reason and others, Alex! I’m glad you are enjoying them.

Leslie,
The Word Flippers aren’t available as a separate set for purchase. There is a download on this blog post that includes many of them, but the rest are included in our Activity Books for each level of All About Reading. I’m sorry for the confusion about that.

Great point, Candace! And word flippers and similar activities not only encourage kids with any many words they can read, but it also helps build fluency in their reading. It’s all apart of Thinking Approach to Word Families.

Thank you, Angelica!

Julie,
Learning to spell difficult words happens as students learn the phonograms, rules, and patterns that make up simpler words. For example, we find that many students simply memorize easy words like “cat” and “kid” but have no idea why one uses a C and the other uses a K, or that the same rules that apply to these words also apply to higher-level words such as “concentrate.”

If your student has a pretty good foundation in phonograms, rules, and patterns of easier words, then you can approach harder words by analyzing them together to help your student learn to think through spelling. Together you would look over a word and ask and answer questions about its spelling, such as:
– What letters are used to spell each sound?
– Are there any spelling rules that apply?
– How many syllables are there?
– What types of syllables are they?
– If there is a Silent E, what is its job?
– Is there a suffix or prefix?
– If there is an /er/ sound, how it is spelled?
– and so on

If your student wouldn’t be able to answer questions like these about a word even with help, he or she would benefit from All About Spelling. You would find our blog post Using All About Spelling with Older Students helpful.

Please let me know if you have any questions or need help with placement or anything else.

Monique,
I’m happy to hear you enjoy our resources!

However, All About Learning Press is located in the United States of America, not England. However, our products are used by English speakers and teachers all over the world, including England and Australia. Let me know if you have any questions about literacy or anything else.