Spalding is an OG method... but... I'm actually familiar with it, and I have to say, it's an extremely front-loaded program, not ideal for students with language-related disabilities or problems with working memory and/or attention.
There's a reason it's not generally advised for severely dyslexic kids, despite easily being the most inexpensive and accessible (read: scripted and you don't need special training to implement) OG program out there.
(It hasn't changed much in the past several decades either, so I actually can talk pretty clearly about this rather than almost any other option, which will have been updated for various reasons, for good or bad.)
But what you describe doesn't particularly sound like Spalding, not unless the teacher heavily modified it, which is very possible. People do that sort of thing, and sometimes that's a good idea and sometimes it doesn't matter, and sometimes it's not a good idea at all.
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There's a reason it's not generally advised for severely dyslexic kids, despite easily being the most inexpensive and accessible (read: scripted and you don't need special training to implement) OG program out there.
(It hasn't changed much in the past several decades either, so I actually can talk pretty clearly about this rather than almost any other option, which will have been updated for various reasons, for good or bad.)
But what you describe doesn't particularly sound like Spalding, not unless the teacher heavily modified it, which is very possible. People do that sort of thing, and sometimes that's a good idea and sometimes it doesn't matter, and sometimes it's not a good idea at all.