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Home : 2008 : Nov : 2
Lots of activities for spelling I love Spellingcity.com. You can type in your word list, and it creates online games for your kids like HangMouse, Word Unscramble, Crosswords, Missing Letters, etc. Makes it fun (instead of having them write the word 5x or something) Our reading program (Houghton Mifflin) ties the spelling words to the phonics skill. So if we're working on the long vowel CVCe pattern, all of our spelling words follow the pattern (make, sale, etc.) They're also in our reading anthology and leveled readers, which helps. I agree. Spelling City is awesome. My kids have computer class for an hour a week. When they get done with their work, they go to spelling city to practice their words in fun ways. They LOVE it! We have Scott Foresman Reading Street, and they also follow a phonics skill for every week (this week was words with short e CVC words). The phonics skill is seen in the story for the week, and the decodable readers (which I don't use very often) For the most part, I like it, but it is waaaayyyy to easy for my more gifted kids. I wish I could find a way to differentiate spelling in first grade. That is one of my goals for next summer. I do spelling centers once a week, and the kids love them. It provides them with more of a hands on approach to learning the words. We do fun things like write our words in shaving cream, stamp your words, make words with letter magnets, scrabble tiles, letter cards, letter beads, cereal, etc. There are so many things to make spelling fun. My kids also love to write their words on whiteboards. We do this every Tuesday and work on word families. It is so much fun!
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