Knowing the spelling stuck…

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  • March 31, 2009 at 3:49 am
    Shanna
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    What if a child has a problem with a word in a passage and then on the next day gets it right. How do you know that the child has actually learned the spelling of the word and that it will stick long term? Do you mark that word or passage and do it again sometime? If so, do you allow the child to study the passage beforehand?

    April 1, 2009 at 2:01 am
    Sonya Shafer
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    I usually do a combination of things.

    First, I’ll watch for it in any written narrations or notes or such. If she spells it correctly there, I’m pretty confident that she’s got it. If she doesn’t use it again soon or misses it, . . .

    I’ll look through the Spelling Wisdom index for another exercise that uses that word. Since part of preparing a passage is identifying which words need to be studied, I have an opportunity to see whether she feels confident about that particular word or identifies it as needing more work.

    I know some moms who keep a list of missed words to review occasionally throughout the year, but I’m not sure of all the details of how they do it. Maybe one of them will post here and fill in the how-to. 🙂

    April 1, 2009 at 12:38 pm
    Jodie Apple
    Participant

    Shanna,

    What we have found to be helful is to keep a few pages sectioned off at the back of his dictation notebook (we use one of those plastic page markers as a divider marker) and keep a list of words he misspells. After there are 10 or so newly misspelled words accumulated we have a ‘spelling test’. If he misses any of those again, we focus on just the ones missed. Then at the end of a term or semester we review all of the misspelled words once more and have a ‘semester test’. This lets me know if he truly remembers and it also helps me see if there are word groups that we need to work on-for example -ought word group: sought, bought, ought, thought…

    April 1, 2009 at 1:54 pm
    Shanna
    Participant

    I have another question.

    When there is a word that they feel they do not know and need to study that word before you do the dictation. How do you know that they actually know it rather than just remembering it from studying it a bit earlier?

    I just want to make sure that the correct spellings is staying with them long term.

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