DS is in Year 1. He ahs spellings to learn at home every week,. They are always 8 words, with a common theme eg this week's words all have 'ou' in them. House, mouse, out - all the same sounding 'ou' (ie not ought, would etc).
He gets them on a Wednesday. I practice them with him on a Sunday and we have a brief run through again on the following Wednesday morning berfore school. He is then tested on them at school and gets another lot of eight.
What is the best way for me to teach them? This is what I do at the moment:
I write them all on the white board in the kitchen. I tell them that each of the words has the 'owwww' noise and those letters are 'ou' so they will be in every word. I point to each of them and say the word. Then I rub them out. Then I ask DS to write each of them in a pice of paper. I go through them one by one ie "Now DS, please would you write 'mouse. Mouse as in "A mouse lives in the skirting boards in nanny's house". He writes them. If they are wrong, (eg DS sometimes reverses b and d, or will get the spelling wrong eg not putting the 'e' on the end of 'house'), I correct him as we go along. After we've done all eight, I do the whole thing again. After that, I write them back up on thwe white board.
Critique away! Education is not part of my job, and I have no eperience of teaching.
I have noticed however that even if he does do well in spelling them in his tests, he does not retain the spellings at all. He will spell the words phonetically the following week and does not apply what he has learned.
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Teaching spellings and helping a child to retain the correct spelling
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HappyAsEyeAm · 17/03/2014 09:02
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