Day By Day - Spelling

Sep. 10, 2006

Spelling

Help! I need to create my own spelling curriculum – and I’m not sure what to do. Basically I’m taking the “new” words that J2 encounters in his reading (Pathway Readers) and putting them on a list…thus a spelling list. But then what? I thought maybe I’d have him create the list himself. Maybe add 5 words each day to his book and we’ll find ways to review them daily. But the list grows very fast! When I look at the stories he’s going to read this week – I see 32 words that I know are new to him.

Any ideas? Should we spell them outloud? Copy them? ??

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Sep. 10, 2006 - I just wrote about how we do spelling...

Posted by HomeGrownKids

when we primarily used Living Books to learn from. I try to appeal to the various senses when helping the children learn.That's why we copy them and spell them out loud and do some other work with the words.

Even playing games and having pop quizzes is fun and motivating. :)

http://homeschoolblogger.com/HomeGrownKids/199784/

HTH
Susan <><

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Sep. 11, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by C.C.

With Damaris, I create her list from the Language Arts LifePac we are in (we're using Alpha-Omega LifePacs). So her total list for the book we're in right now has something like 60 words. We'll cover those over the course of 4 weeks. So I give her 3-4 new words per day that she attempts to sound out and spell aloud. Then she writes them. After we cover about 15 words, we have a test on them. Then we start with the next set. At the end of the 4 weeks, she has a written test over them all. Hope this helps.

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