 Hi you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video I am going to be comparing Evan Moore building spelling skills with 180 days of spelling and word study. So if you guys are excited to hear my comparison between these two spelling curriculums go ahead and stay tuned for today's video. So if any of you guys are new here to my channel again my name is Brittany. I am a homeschooling mom to three girls ages 10, 3 and 2 and I'm in my second year of homeschooling. You guys I have gotten so many questions about 180 days of spelling. Evan Moore spelling what I thought about both of the curriculums. You guys have been DM me on Instagram. You guys have been asking me a lot of questions here on YouTube as well. So I decided to go ahead and make a comparison video between both of these spelling curriculums. I will give you a spoiler alert. I do really enjoy and I have enjoyed using both of these spelling curriculums. However they are slightly different and I do prefer one over the other. So I cannot wait to go ahead and share with you guys the insights how both of these spelling curriculums look and go ahead and get on into my review. So I'm going to flip you guys around and let's go ahead and get started. Okay you guys here I have Evan Moore's building spelling skills great for and I have 180 days of spelling and word study for the fifth grade. So we started off our school year using Evan Moore's building spelling skills great for so we completed this in our first semester and then we moved on to 180 days of spelling and word study. So both of these spelling programs you guys are very traditional based spelling programs. I mean they're open and go. They are a traditional workbook style spelling program that you may even find in the public school system or the public school setting. These are really really good for creating independence and giving your kids some type of independent skills or independent work within your home school. So I'm going to go ahead and start off by going over Evan Moore building spelling and then we will get into 180 days of spelling and word study. So like I said before we started off our school year using Evan Moore building spelling skills. Both of the setups of Evan Moore and 180 days of spelling are pretty similar as far as their days. So right here in the beginning of Evan Moore's spelling that gives the scope and sequence what type of phonics skills or spelling rules your child is going to be going over that week. Evan Moore building spelling skills is in a 30 week program which is really good because it kind of gives you that six week flexibility if you do have state laws where you do have to homeschool for 36 weeks. You have about six weeks wiggle room to play with when it comes to your spelling so that is always a pro. So for the week's lessons on Monday it's typically like an introduction introduction of the words where you will be doing like a copy and spelling for activity for the first day. For the day two you have your word meaning and dictations where you'll be doing some type of different type of activity with your word meanings and then at the bottom of that activity you always do your word dictations on Tuesday. On Wednesday you'll do your word study activity which is typically like your phonics based activity that you're going to be doing on Wednesday. On Thursday you're going to be editing your spelling words for errors. They have various activities for editing your spelling words and then on Friday you will have your weekly spelling test. At the back of this book they do have like all the forms you do need for Evan Moore for giving your kids like the spelling test and everything but again since we completed this program I made a mistake and threw all that stuff away so I went on to Evan Moore's website and I copied off how the spelling dictation page will look at the beginning of the book and then right here here goes how the list of spelling words will also look as well at the beginning of the book. What I did was I took out these spelling list words and I put it on a clip for along with the answers and my spelling dictation words so I can just give my daughter this workbook to work independently and then I can have kind of like my teacher's guide stuff. Now this right here is how the spelling test form looks. Now you don't have to use a spelling test form if you don't want to. I just personally like to use it because I am keeping some type of records for my daughter as far as our homeschooling so I did use these spelling test forms so I could file away some of her spelling tests. So again it just has like the one through 20 for your spelling words. They do give you some room if you needed to add some spelling words over from the previous week to use your spelling test for and then at the bottom it has the portion where you would be doing your spelling dictation. Okay you guys so let's go ahead and I'm going to show you some of the activities within here. Now my daughter if she passed the pretest for the spelling list I did not make her do that week's worth of spelling and I believe that's why we were able to get through this spelling curriculum within a semester because it was some weeks where she would just ace the whole spelling test and I didn't want to go ahead and make her do like the activities for the full week if she already knew how to spell those words the meanings and everything like that so um a lot of the weeks within this ebb and more spelling we did skip if she passed the pretest. So right here again on day one they would do their copy and spell at one portion you will have the kids cover up the spelling words and then have them copy it to see which ones they know how to spell correctly throughout the week. Now what I would do is I would just give my daughter these uh pretests on like a dry erase board so I didn't have her copy the words if she kind of like already knew them. Again for the word meanings like I said before this portion will always change so either it would be like a crossword puzzle some type of fill in the blank this portion right here always changes throughout the week for uh day two and then they have the portion where you do your spelling dictation. On day three or Wednesday it is always like again the phonics type of practice or spelling rules within those spelling words and then on Thursday you will be looking through this paragraph in this instance and finding your misspelled spelling words and then writing them how you spell them properly on the list. So this program you guys it's a very very simple spelling program like I said before you can just really give this to your kids and just let them go and just do the spelling test at the end of the week. It's very open and go the kids can read the directions especially at this level my daughter she is in the fourth grade so she's definitely able to just do this workbook on her own I just will go over it and check her answers and we will be done throughout the day. And like I said before we do have a lot of weeks where she already knew how to spell the words and we would just skip that week and that was just kind of like how we went through this curriculum a fast. I just don't want to give my daughter like work to do especially if she already knew how to spell the words and again here goes activity where it shows like the phonics based activity where they're going to be breaking up the two syllables three syllables and four syllable words using their spelling words and again here goes a portion where she has to read the paragraph and write out all of the misspelled words. So you guys that is pretty much how simple evermore building spelling is. Overall I did like this program but let's go ahead and look inside of 180 days of spelling and word study. Now this 180 days spelling and word study is set up pretty similar to evermore building spelling. The only difference between this one right here is that you don't just have four days of activities you actually have five days of activities within 180 days of word study. Now the activities again they are pretty much similar as far as like how they're going to be doing it each day. They have analogies cursive activities parts of speech. They're also going to be studying the prefixes and suffixes of the spelling words. They're going to be using the prefixes suffixes and root words so they're going to be learning like Greek and Latin roots within the spelling words as well. They're going to be doing sentence completions in a day's activity. They have synonyms antonyms and then they're also going to be turning questions around into like statements and then they have words sorts where they're going to be categorizing their spelling words. So all of these activities are just going to be spread out throughout the week in the 180 days of spelling and again i'm going to go ahead and show you guys how a week's worth of activity goes. So this is how your week will start off with 180 days of spelling. They give you your spelling list and off the back i just want to just tell you the spelling words for 180 days of spelling. They are more challenging than evermore spelling. Now i know i am coming from a different grade level from evermore spelling but i went ahead and i printed off the evermore spelling fifth grade list and this is how the fifth grade spelling words looks for evermore building spelling. So again they're still very very simple spelling words versus this list right here that they're giving your child in the fifth grade in 180 days worth of spelling. Now on the first day again this is going to be your sentence completion where the child is going to use the word bank right here to fill in the sentences. On day two they have their synonym antonym practices where they're going to be finding the synonyms and antonyms and then they have a word category where they have to figure out which spelling word will go in that word category. On day three they have the prefixes and suffixes and again sometimes they use the greek and latin root words in these activities and those activities i will say they are very challenging for my daughter however i really like for her to get a little bit of a challenge within her spelling and they're challenging but at the end of the day she still does enjoy it but day three definitely trips her up sometimes. And then right here on day four this one right here will alternate between cursive practice or a sentence completion which is really really cool. So in this case my daughter will take these spelling words and she will write them in cursive. And then on the fifth day which is my daughter's favorite day she gets to do analogies. My daughter really loves analogies and i love the students getting analogy practice because on standardized tests especially as they get into upper grade levels they do have a lot of analogies and word studies and this is just really good practice for them to be able to figure out which analogy will go in the category and my daughter really really loves day five. And again here goes week 11 so you guys can kind of get an overview of how this week looks. You have your sentence completion they have their sentinums and antonyms practice and again right here they have a part of speech. This day three will alternate like i said before from like a part of speech some type of Greek or Latin word prefix it just this day alternates as well and then this one instead of it being cursive this one is they're going to be turning their questions around into answers so your child will have to read this answer this question right here and answer the question but also answer it in a complete sentence which is a really good skill for them to be practicing especially as they're in upper elementary. And again the week ends off by using the analogies which again my daughter loves so that is pretty much today's work. The biggest difference between 180 days of spelling and even more is that 180 days of spelling has five days worth of spelling activities and even more is building spelling skills only has four days worth of activities. So this week this 180 days of spelling is of course 180 days so this is a 36 week program whereas even more building spelling is a 30 week program. So you guys i'm going to flip the camera around i'm going to give you guys my overall review on both of these curriculums how i felt and which one i prefer the best. Okay you guys here is my final review of even more building spelling skills and 180 days of spelling. So you guys of course i have all my notes in my phone so don't mind me looking down every now and then but even more building spelling the pros it is a great and simple spelling program it's very independent you really can just give this off to your child especially if your kids are in that beginning phase of knowing how to read especially starting about like maybe first grade they will be able to do this spelling curriculum completely independent. I really feel like even more spelling skills is very very good spelling program especially if your child is still learning how to read and they still need that extra phonetic practice. Even more building spelling is really really great for that it's a simple introduction to spelling the spelling rules and really how to get your kids kicked off and get started. My cons about even more is that i feel like the spelling words are not challenging enough. I feel like if you're going to give your child a spelling curriculum you do want that sense of challenge to be in there. I feel like if you do go with the even more spelling skills i definitely would recommend you to go on to even more's website and look through each of the great levels to make sure before you purchase that spelling book that those spelling words will be challenging to your children. A rule of thumb i would definitely say is to go up a grade so if your child is in a third grade do the fourth grade book etc that's just my personal opinion but again you do or you can utilize that resource by going on to even more's website to see if um those spelling lists will work out for your child. My other con is that i feel like when you get to the upper elementary grade levels you are going to be looking for a little bit more in your spelling words. You're not just going to be looking for misspelled words or phonetics. You're going to be looking for more of word meaning words that you're looking for a little teeny bit more. So this program even more building spelling i would definitely recommend it for the younger elementary's k through second will be my preference for this particular spelling program. It is a good spelling program. It's open and go. You guys already seen the layout of it. You really are still going to be able to teach your child however i feel like once you get to upper elementary i would personally be looking for something a little bit more in depth in a spelling program. So for 180 days of spelling you guys i really feel like again it's a great independent spelling program. You really can't go wrong with either one of these spelling programs. I feel like the spelling words in 180 days of spelling they are more challenging. I really feel like they're more great level appropriate. So if you have a student that's in the second grade second grade will be perfect for you. Now in knowing that the spelling words are a little bit more challenging if you have someone who is not so good at spelling you may want to level down in 180 days of spelling. Again 180 days of spelling they do have their website where you can look on it to see their master spelling lists for each of the great levels. So you kind of will know what you're purchasing before you actually you know pull the plug. Another pro about the 180 days of spelling you guys i really love that this program i mean you have your analogies you have your word study. They're learning greek and latin roots. They are turning questions into answers. They are doing sentinems and antinems and categories. They are doing so much with these spelling words where they're not only learning the spelling but they're learning the meaning. They also are learning the context in which these spelling words are properly used in sentences. So i really appreciate the in-depthness of 180 days of spelling. I feel like when i give my daughter 180 days of spelling i know i'm not just giving her busy work. I am giving her something and a spelling curriculum that she is going to really understand the meanings of these words. She's going to understand how they're used. She's going to understand when a word is used as a verb versus a noun. So she is really getting an in-depth spelling and word study program which i really enjoy. One thing about both of these spelling programs i will say if you are like me and you like to give your child a little bit extra activities within your spelling program you can always do that easily with both of these programs. You guys i have my composition notebook that i always give my daughter and what i do to kind of like bump up our spelling is i go ahead and i have my daughter define each of her spelling words each week. She does five spelling words a day so it's kind of broken off between all the days of spelling and she just looks up the definition of the word. So when she is doing the word study portion of 180 days of spelling she is able to just go back into her composition book look at those definitions to be able to easily figure out which spelling word goes in those fill in a blanks. Another activity that you can do with the spelling words as well you can have your child write your spelling words into sentences. A really close friend of mine we DM all the time on Instagram she told me that that is what she does with her son. She has him write out his spelling words and sentences and i think that is another cool activity that you can do to extend your spelling program as well is allow them to not only learn how to spell the words but know their meanings and make sure they're able to use those spelling words in context. So you guys ultimately I love 180 days of spelling a little bit more than Evan Moore just because my daughter is getting a little bit more. However both of these spelling programs you guys as you've seen on the inside they are great they're good to go. If you choose any of these and you're just looking for like a traditional spelling based program I really feel like you cannot go wrong with either of these spelling programs. So you guys I really hope today's video kind of like answered all your questions as far as Evan Moore building spelling and 180 days of spelling. Again they're both good they go from grades k through six. So you guys I only have one more level and 180 days of spelling before my daughter will level out. I'm kind of sad however these both are good good programs. So you guys thank you so much for watching today's video I hope you enjoy and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one. Bye.