3rd Grade Spelling Success Workbook: Compound Words, Double Consonants, Syllables and Plurals, Prefixes and Suffixes, Long Vowels, Silent Letters, ... and More (Sylvan Language Arts Workbooks)

Was looking for a homeschool spelling book… something not to intense but to reinforce different spelling rules for my 3rd grader. This is perfect. She can self check after she does the page with the answers and she is actually getting better at spelling even in the month or so we have had this book.

Love the quality!

Third grade is a pivotal year in academic growth for students. They are entering their 4th year of schooling - if using kindergarten as Year 1 - and the basics of math and language have been introduced and practiced. Now the exponential learning begins, what the educational trade calls the connecting and wondering years. At this age, students explain these connections through language.Sylvan's method prepares kids for the accelerated academic pace and growth that commences in third grade. Most pages are illustrated with real kids instead of the cartoony illustrations. And the workload is harder, with 12 to 16 spelling exercises versus the five or six found in the 2nd grade version.This workbook also features writing, writing and more writing of answers versus the line connecting, matching and circling of answers of the earlier grade work. Most words are 2 or more syllables long and are more complex linguistically like pitiful, authority and phantom.The classic Sylvan exercises are still here: Criss Cross, Spell Check and Write it Right are familiar challenges - except with more problems and harder words. More is expected of your young scholar and with this workbook, Sylvan challenges them to give their best effort.

Got this for my son for his summer school work very helpful we also do the spelling words test once a week of the words that are used

The content overall seems great. Admittedly, we had to divert back to the second grade workbook after lesson one, so I can't say too much more at this moment on that.However, one thing I noticed immediately was the strange and terrible placement of the answers. They are included as a strip along the first page of each lesson, non-perforated, so that the student or teacher need to cut it out and use it only as a reference cheat-strip. .... Wow., really??We fold ours over and I use the folded pages as a guide to quickly find each successive lesson, but as you can see in the picture taken, doing this doubles the width of the book. That's really not a problem for us, as we have enough space on our shelf, but it might pose an issue for a perfectionist. In that case, the best bet would be to cut them as directed and hold them aside. Especially when, as seen in one picture, folding over that strip does not always hide all the lesson answers.One other good thing, it has a spelling word index at the back of the book, which is great if you want to ensure specific words are covered... However, it doesn't detail which page to find each word on, so you'll have to figure that part out yourself.Overall, it seems a great book, but it's not perfect. Still, we kept it and plan to use it for our coursework. I may come back and edit this review at that time if I feel it's needed.