Question about etc and spelling

[Lenora in MD]

If you go through all the explode the code books, will they cover all the spelling rules?

[KarenNC]

I *think* so, but I am not sure that they stress them. We have done all the books and I loved the program, but I and my daughter are both what is termed, I believe, "natural spellers", so we haven't really had a need to memorize the rules to do well. We have gone on from ETC 8 to Spelling Power, which does indeed include the rules as part of the daily exercises, but also only requires you to work on words you can't already spell.

If you google "explode the code" and go to the first hit, you will be able to click on the various levels and see what they cover, which may help.

[Sue G in PA]

My dc also use SWO for spelling. Ds6 and 8 are the only ones using ETC right now and both do SWO as well. Different words, different focus. Enough of a difference for me to add SWO as well. Ds8 is almost done w/ ETC books and will simply do SWO after that. You could wait until after all ETC books are complete to add spelling if your dc does well w/ it. Mine needed the extra spelling help.