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spelling practice for home
By db

I attended a conference last summer. Here are some of the ideas we were given. I sent this home to my parents at the beginning of the year. I told them that this would be a creative way to study their spelling. This is
copied from my letter I sent home. Hope this helps.

WORD DRILL
Read the words on weekly spelling list out loud and ask your child to write each word after you have read it. Stop after each word and check to see if he or she spelled the word correctly. If not, have the child take a good look at the word. Ask him or her to touch each letter in the word, and to say the letter

out loud. Then have your child write again without looking. Spelling is mostly a visual process, so it is very important that your child is allowed to “look” a lot.

STORIES OR SENTENCES
Another effective way to study at home is to have your child use all or some of a list of spelling words in a story or sentences. This way you will know that your child is able to use his or her spelling words in pieces of writing. After all that’s why we have spelling!
It’s for writing!

HOPPING ON ONE FOOT
Ask your child to hop on their left foot while spelling their “green” words and their right foot while spelling their “red” words. They can hop on both feet for any “blue” words.

BEDTIME STORIES
Before retiring for bed, write your child’s spelling words on separate pieces of paper. Hide them in different places in your child’s bedroom (i.e.; under their pillow, in their medicine cabinet, where they keep their toothbrush, and etc.) When they find any of the pieces of paper they must give the paper to you and spell the word correctly that is written on the paper. If they can spell it, they get to keep the paper. If not, they must let you hide it in another place the next evening. The object is to collect all the words (papers) before the end of the week.