Spelling 

Your child will be given 20 spelling words plus 5 challenge words for each story in our reading anthology. Spelling tests will be given on Fridays or the last day of the week. Some of the words will be tested in sentence dictation form to help with writing. Please practice with your child at home with the new words, while remembering to review and practice the previous lists. 

Where can you find the spelling words?:
1.A list of all spelling words for the year will be sent home in August (if you've misplaced it, please just let me know). 2.You can access them from this webpage by theme/Lesson #. 3.They will also be listed in the daily FROGS binder for quick reference.

Don't forget, games like Hangman, Scrabble, Boggle, Scattergories, etc. help sharpen your child's spelling and word making skills while your whole family enjoys!!! 

Here are a few other fun ideas and ways to practice the spelling words. You are not required to do them, but they offer a more interesting way of practicing spelling words outside of writing them 5 or 10 times each.

SPELLING PRACTICE IDEAS

•        "Word detective" - have your child use old newspapers, magazines, junk mail, etc. to find and highlight the spelling words (great for high-frequency words, too!)

• Spelling word concentration - have your child write the spelling words two times each, cut out in rectangular fashion, turn them over face-down, and match.

• Create new and funny sentences for each word. Take turns being the writer and the dictator.

• Spelling scrabble - write letters from spelling words on paper, cut out, and play scrabble. (if possible, use letters from real scrabble game)

• Have them type them on a typewriter or on a computer using different font styles.

• Put spelling words in alphabetical order

• Write new words from base word   (i.e. cook - cooks, cooker, cooking)