DD9 (4th grade) needs a better spelling curriculum. She is a natural speller and has always been accelerated in spelling. Our district has gone completely digital with Pearson products this year and with all the changes going on in the school they haven't had a chance to get her spelling accelerated yet.

I would like to find something (fairly inexpensive) we can offer the school in place of what they are doing, to 1. try to be helpful and 2. get something in place before DD pulls her hair out having to write won't and don't 10 times each every week.

Does anyone know of a more advanced spelling curriculum, that might include workbooks or something online, so DD has something to do while the other students are writing their words 10 times?

My 5th grade class did this with the top learners. We had a vocabulary book with large, novel words. It had different exercises to learn the words and then our spelling test would be those words. I really enjoyed it.

DD9 (4th) has no spelling at all this year--they are doing vocabulary instead. I'm very pleased! She is at a GT magnet school.

Thanks for the suggestions!

I posted on here not too long ago about vocab and I was sort of leaning toward something where we could incorporate both spelling and vocab, so I like that idea.

I found a series on Amazon that is "Vocabulary for the Gifted Student" by Flash Kids. It claims to be 1 to 1 1/2 levels up from the listed grade level, but I don't see many reviews.

master of none - I just browsed "wordly wise" and the online part looks great! I'll have to look at the books when I have more time.

HappilyMom - did they just make up their own book or was this something they purchased?

It was a bound workbook and was absolutely my favorite part of 5th grade. No clue what it was called... that was 25+ yrs ago but it was one of the few challenging in a fun way things that I ever had in school.

DD9 is doing Wordly Wise in school and likes it. I thought the packets that she's brought home so far were well-constructed and interesting. She asked me a bunch of questions about Rosa Parks while she was doing it.

I used wordly wise in 2006-2008 for my son. I loved all the activities. I assume they have revised it by now but if they keep their same philosophy then it will still be a quality program for vocabulary and there is no reason why those words can't be spelling words (but they won't form a phonetic pattern the words are grouped because they go in a particular article/story).