One More Spelling Helper

http://www.spellingcity.com/ is a fun place to work with spelling words.

At the end of a long day, you and your child might not feel like doing formal spelling exercises. Instead, you can enter and save the word lists on Spelling City. The server automatically creates context sentences for the words and generates games.

Your child can learn new words, test themselves online, play hang mouse, matching games, cross-word puzzles, word finds and make printable worksheets.

Free!

Spelling Strategies 2 & 3

Strategy 2: Make Observations about the Words.

Make flashcards of the words. Write on the flashcard. Outline the word to emphasis the tall letters and short letters.

Poor spelling has to do with poor visual memory of words. So the outlining process reinforces visual memory. For example, the word “corn” has no tall letters or letters that hang low. This will help one to remember that it starts with a c and not a k.


Strategy 3: Constant Time Delay

Constant time delay gives students time to think of the correct answer. If they do not know the correct answer, then the teacher or parent shows them the correct word after a few seconds. This way, students form only correct connections in the brain. This is called “errorless learning.” This is better than forming incorrect connections with guesses, having to break those connections and then forming the correct one.
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Spelling Strategies

Good News! There are things you can do to help your students learn spelling words!


Strategy 1: Cover, Copy, Compare

This strategy is a good way for students to work by themselves on their words. They cover the word they want to spell, write it, and then compare it to the original.

Small white boards and markers are good for this, because students usually enjoy white-boards more than pens and paper. In fact, you could save the white board just for this purpose to keep it special.

Also there are many sites online that will make worksheets of your list of words.

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