My son had 41 spelling words last week.

I teach my kids spelling and grammar rules, but we do things in a way that feels natural to us.  Reading is core to our literature based education, so I have no concerns about them not having a diverse vocabulary.  As I review their work, any misspelled words are added to a list.  This list becomes next weeks spelling list.  If I see them struggling with a specific rule, I will add words that will help them understand it.  I use Spelling City to create lists and worksheets for them to work on that week.

Theoretically, they could have no spelling, but this has yet to happen. Usually they hover around 10 to 20 words, but my son had a epic week.  Most were errors because he didn't want to take the time to look up the word, but 41 is a lot of spelling words!