If you are in need of a plan for your spelling instruction, this is my little teacher’s notebook of spelling for the year. It has a grid of the order of introduction as well as each week’s spelling list and sentence dictation {after week 16}
My teamie made us each a plastic folder with all the pages inside in order the year. It’s SO HANDY! I just give the test and then turn the page to the new pattern for the next week! Sorry for the quick pictures-not the best- but you get the idea! After Thanksgiving, we will be on the ink ank onk unk week.
We don’t give our students a list to study, but rather the pattern with a few examples. This way they are applying the pattern to the word from teacher. {and hopefully into their writing too} That’s how it has been for a few years now. I imagine you are doing that too? Yes?
To see how students practice the spelling/phonics patterns in the classroom throughout the week, You can read about that HERE in an older post.
Have a great weekend!
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What a great idea to only give them the spelling pattern. How do they do with that? I use the List A/List B method. Kids take a pretest on list A. If they get 80% correct, then they will study list B and be tested on that.
What kind of spelling homework do you give to your students?
We use HM Journeys Texas Edition and at the beginning of the year there are only 6 words. So we assign those words and then give 4 "mystery words" that follow the same pattern and they have been exposed to. Eventually the words increase to 8, so we go down to 2 mystery words. I really like how y'all give your test. Exposing them to the pattern and then giving them words that follow it is what we want to do eventually. It would certainly help us see who truly knows the skills. Thanks for sharing!
Shibahn
Mrs. Landry's Land of Learning