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Our spelling tests for the past few weeks have shown that more at home practice is necessary. To improve your child's spelling accuracy please ensure that you:
1. Have them take several practice test throughout the week.
2. Ask them to spell the words out loud and change the first letter of the word to make a new word.
YOU say: Spell Cat
child says: /c/ /a/ /t/
You say: Write it in the air
Child: Writes the word in the air
You say:Now change cat into bat.
Child: Erases the /c/ out of the air and puts a /b/
The goal is to strengthen their symbol imagery. Symbol imagery can be defined as the ability to visualize the identity, number, and sequence of sounds and letters within words. This helps them when they are spelling to see in their mind the word and the words that can made using the base letters. This process also helps them remember the visual patterns of words.
MORE Tips for Spelling WORDS:
1.Have students make FLASHCARDS.
2. Make a chart like this with 3 or four spelling words you want to learn:
1. Have them take several practice test throughout the week.
2. Ask them to spell the words out loud and change the first letter of the word to make a new word.
YOU say: Spell Cat
child says: /c/ /a/ /t/
You say: Write it in the air
Child: Writes the word in the air
You say:Now change cat into bat.
Child: Erases the /c/ out of the air and puts a /b/
The goal is to strengthen their symbol imagery. Symbol imagery can be defined as the ability to visualize the identity, number, and sequence of sounds and letters within words. This helps them when they are spelling to see in their mind the word and the words that can made using the base letters. This process also helps them remember the visual patterns of words.
MORE Tips for Spelling WORDS:
1.Have students make FLASHCARDS.
2. Make a chart like this with 3 or four spelling words you want to learn:
Then fold over the "recall" part so that only the first two columns show:
3.Then fold over the "recall" part so that only the first two columns show:
Then,
Then,
- Say the word to yourself.
- Trace it in the first column, saying the letters as you trace. Say the word again. You might put a little rhythm into it, "WORD. W – pause – O – pause – R-D. WORD!" (Remember, the goal here is to remember how to spell the words, not to successfully follow these directions.)
- Go to the second column, say the word, and write it the same way.
- While the rhythm and the sound and the feeling are fresh in your mind, flip the paper over and say the word and spell it out — the same way, saying each letter (because, after all, practice makes permanent).
- If it's a hard word, put it on the list more than once. If you're feeling particularly smart, trace and copy TWO words, and try to remember them both before you flip the page over. However, if your short-term memory isn't big enough to hold all that, do one at a time because you want to practice the words RIGHT, not make guesses!
- After you've done all the words this way a few times, start doing them two or three at a time, and when you feel like you know them, do the list again — but skip the tracing, or, when you're feeling VERY confident, skip the tracing and the copying both.