Megawords 1 Student Book 2ED

Great resource!! My 6th grade Structured LIteracy students have benefitted from extra practice with core phonics skills presented in multisyllabic words.

Good for use with special needs students.

If you were buying all new products, this is fine. But I already had 2 books (of 2 different years) and needed a third. When I am on page 3J in one book, it is 3K in the others, and some of the sentences are randomly different. But the page numbering is not consistent so has to be checked each time which is confusing.Content is 5 stars.

Awesome workbook!

This is our first time using Megawords. I had a couple of girls that had been through some intense spelling years. I thought a vocabulary like program might be a fun break. We love it! Interesting and well-paced. I have a super aversion to Teacher Manuals, I almost never buy them in the primary grades. I have been able to modify it slightly without the teacher manual. However, if you are squeamish at that idea, order the teacher manual. Overall very happy with megawords!

This has been some help to my son in the area of spelling. I like that he is learning spelling rules instead of a list of words each week that all have the same pattern. He can do the lessons with minimal help from me.

This series is the genius answer to teaching reading, comprehension, and pronunciation to older elementary or middle school age kids. Each lesson in each book builds on a previous concept or rule, with dozens of sample words and interesting and ingenious workbook pages. The student can do some pages alone and while other pages can be taught line by line to be sure the information is being processed. I use this series when a student comes to me whose reading level, ability, and interest began to fade at about 4th grade. By sixth or seventh, the student is ready for this series and actually learns the inner workings of words in a really creative unfolding of phonics and vocabulary. After ten years, no student of mine has hated the book--they actually all like it. Too bad it isn't in public schools, especially now with so many older elementary and junior high kids who don't read well. It is a teaching tool--not good just to hand out for independent work, though there are plenty of independent pages so the teacher can walk away and come back later. I always buy one copy for myself so I can teach from my copy--don't get just one for your child. This book is worth serious use, and one book five times cheaper than the $50 you would pay a reading tutor for your 13 year old. I strongly advise going through the entire series in the order presented. Getting to the end of one workbook is also a great time to present a reward. Positive outcomes at all levels. I should add that this summer I am using it with a 23 year old who never really learned to read well but now wants to attempt college and an 8th grade boy who dislikes school and doesn't look forward to highschool. And why would he? He can't read well--for now. Megawords will cure that problem this summer.

This curriculum really helped my daughter who was a struggling speller, and behind in grade level. She caught up and got ahead of grade level thanks to these workbooks. She worked through all levels at her own pace, she started level one in the middle of fourth grade and finished book eight in high school, but she had already significantly improved by the time she reached the last two levels. I tried other programs with my younger two children, and regret it. I recently ordered more of these to begin with my younger two. I should have known to stick with what works. :)