Name: Teach Them Diligently (Branson)
Start: 2025-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-17T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Branson, MO

Tagged: spelling

This topic has 3 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 13 years, 6 months ago by WendyB.

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September 28, 2011 at 11:24 am
Misty
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Ok so we have bad spellers, ok spellers, good spellers, and great spellers. Some learn fast others slow. Some learn easily others need lots of help.
So now you have found your “program” that fits the child in questions. My question goes from there (as a post on vocabulary made me ponder this).
With a great speller (no matter how he’s getting it), who can spell with no mistakes. When is this child done doing spelling in school?
What about the ok – good ones? Not 100% all the time but does a nice job only missing on the really odd words or on those days where rushing is shown in all their work?
Most importantly the bad spellers, the ones who really just can’t seem to grasp it (or maybe me you’ve seen my spelling!) when do you stop, or maybe do you really not?
Would love some feed back. I have some of both but they are not done learning by any means there spelling. But I just would like to have an idea of what that day will look like when I can say ok, enough you’ve got it!!
September 28, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Bookworm
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When mine are junior-high age, I assess their spelling. If they haven’t misspelled a word in years, then I figure they have the skills necessary for most of life. Obviously they know all the most common words and have visual-memory skills for the rest. For a child in junior high with very infrequent misspellings, I would simply work on words that that child has missed and continue to occasionally reinforce visual-memory skills by picking a word here and there out of their readings. I don’t know what to do about poor spelling since I’ve never run into the problem yet–I have two very good spellers and one pretty good speller. So I’ll have to let someone else help you on that one!
September 28, 2011 at 6:36 pm
simple home
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Spelling has always been quite easy for me. I usually can see a word and it is memorized very quickly. My son is not this way, his brain processes differently and spelling will probably always be something he needs to work on. I’m not saying he will never be good at it one day, but it will not be an easy road getting there.
September 28, 2011 at 9:29 pm
WendyB
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With my natural/great spellers, I did ongoing dictation exercises until they graduated. I chose excerpts that were longer with more difficult words. My great spellers never needed a separate spelling program.
For my poor spellers, I did dictation exercises that were shorter with easier words. My eldest poor speller did work through a spelling program from ages 12-14 or so. My youngest poor speller (age 9) is currently working through a spelling program. My plan is to work through the program until he either completes the 7 level program or it becomes obvious through working through dictation exercises that he no longer needs a separate spelling program.