Spelling/Words Their Way

Your child will be bringing home a collection of spelling words weekly that have been introduced in class. Each night of the week your child is expected to do a different activity to ensure that these words and the spelling principles they represent are mastered. These activities have been modeled and practices in school, so your child can teach you how to do them. There will be a spelling test on Friday. Your child will have about 25 spelling words; however they will only be tested on 10 of the words. The reason for this is to assess if they really know the spelling pattern.

Monday- Remind your child to sort the words into categories like the ones we did in school. Your child should read each word aloud during this activity. Ask your child to explain to you why the words are sorted in a particular way-what does the sort reveal about the spelling in general? Ask your child to sort them a second time as fast as possible. You may want to time them.

Tuesday- Assist your child in doing a word hunt, looking for words in a book they have already read that have the same sound, pattern or both. Try to find 2 or 3 for each category.

Wednesday- Do a writing sort. As you call out the words in random order your child should write them in categories. Call out any words your child misspells a second or even third time.

Thursday- Study your spelling words and patterns.

Ways to Study-make a word pyramid, Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check the word, pick 5 a night to write in a sentence, write a story and include 10 of the words.

 Students will be tested on Monday's during the Power-Up block.