IsabelC Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 aim list try coin base calm dare event fail gas heel idea loss space clue Seriously, is this normal for schools to give kids a bunch of totally unrelated words to learn each night? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 My boys spelling lists from school is every weekly and not every night. Spelling test was friday or monday depending on the class teacher. Depending on the spelling curriculum used by the teacher, I had gotten themed lists, phonics list and list that don't make sense to me but I didn't analysed those so there could be a pattern. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 It may be words that are in that week's reading book selection. That can lead to some really bizarre lists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 I was really flummoxed by this, because the only spelling lists we ever did in homeschool were word families (ie 10 words with 'ai' in them) and Magic 100 words (similar to dolch words). But I guess you're right, it must be vocab from something they were reading or writing at school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 It may be words that are in that week's reading book selection. That can lead to some really bizarre lists. Yes, this. My dd's school sends home every week, one paragraph for studied dictation and a list of 20 words, most of which are from that paragraph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2bee Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 I will hazard a guess: This are words that will be (or were) in their upcoming (recent) reading passages. That could explain the 'randomness of it'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted July 5, 2013 Author Share Posted July 5, 2013 I think you are probably right. But they get 60 words a week, which is an awful lot for my ds with severe spelling difficulties to master, especially when they are not in any logical groups. It takes over an hour to do all his homework, which I think is excessive at that age. At the moment we are starting mid year break, so he'll be doing our home curriculum for 2 weeks, but I think we'll have to negotiate for less homework when he goes back to school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momma2three Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Yes, it's not uncommon to have words that aren't related. I was reading a book about it lately (well, I was reading the free snippets that were available online on Google Reader of a book about it), and it seems like there isn't actually any longitudinal difference between kids who learn spelling by rule/theme, and those who learn by random words. Many teachers prefer the random word method, because with the rule/theme method, kids just remember the rule and apply it to all the words on the test (Oh, all the words on this test have an oo that make the "uh" sound) without actually thinking about any of them or learning it. 60 words a week is nuts, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Yes it's normal. I have never seen a list of related words sent home from PS. I thought they were high frequency words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 In NZ there are 8 wordlists used by most schools. List 1 is the first 10 sight words followed by the next 20 in list 2, list 3 is the next 50 and so on. You progress through the lists as you master the last 1. My son had 5 words a week in year1, in year 2 he has 8 so I would say 60 is a bit strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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