Gamom3 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 I was planning on using Word Building by School of Tomorrow next year, but when I looked at my niece's work it doesn't look right for my dc. I started looking online at spelling list and found a few that I liked. If you use list off the internet What do you have your kids do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in PA Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 We used the spelling lists from http://www.everydayspelling.com/index.html. I had my dc take a pretest on Monday. On Tuesday we wrote sentences with the words. Any words they did not know, we would look up in the dictionary. Wednesday they would practice their words by writing them in their best penmanship. Thursday was time to study the words with dad to prep for Friday's spelling test. It worked really well for them. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIch elle Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 http://www.cantonschools.org/content/pdf_files/la_frylist.pdf Fry's list is the top 1000 words used in written English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristineinKS Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 We've been using McGuffey's Eclectic Speller and use almost the exact methods Chris in PA described (Monday, pre-test & write each incorrect word 5x, Tuesday look words up in dictionary, Wednesday use them in a sentence, Thursday study & Friday test). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Yes, for both my 3rd & 5th graders. On Monday, 3rd grader reads words silently and out loud, spells them out loud, and writes them once. T/W/R are just variations: put them in ABC order, write them in all caps, write on white board, write in script, whatever. She only writes them once per day. 5th grader uses the Flypen Fly Through Spelling sheets for practice. Friday is spelling test, and then we test through some new words and make the next week's spelling list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 We use TLC Worksheets for 3rd and 4th, and www.splashesfromtheriver.com for 6th and 9th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Yes, we use TLC Worksheets for spelling for my 3rd and 4th graders, and www.splashesfromtheriver.com for 6th and 9th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland_Mom Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 If you find a word list you like, www.spellingcity.com has fun activities you child can do online. It's free and you can customize the word list. You can also use lists that others have created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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