4th Grade Buddy Time!!

Our November buddy activity included a trip to the computer lab. Our buddies showed us how to access the website Spelling City.  We had fun entering in our spelling words and doing fun activities to help us practice spelling our words. A link to this website is also located on our Classroom Website.

Spelling Tests

Our Spelling for Writers program is unique in that each student has a different set of individualized, self-selected words. Students take a pretest at the beginning of each week based on a particular generalization or pattern. After correcting the pretest themselves, students replace words spelled correctly with words from a "shopping list" containing more challenging words with the same pattern. This makes the post-test at the end of the week a little challenging because each student has a different set of words. Today we learned how to partner test by trading books and taking turns being the speller and the tester. The second graders did a great job for our first time practicing this!

Spelling for Writers

Our Spelling program involves pretesting the children to determine prior knowledge regarding a particular pattern or rule. Children then self-correct their own pretests and have the opportunity to replace words spelled correctly with more challenging words from a "Shopping List". This means that each child has different words on his or her spelling list, but they are all based on the same generalization. We spend time working with these words and studying the pattern throughout the week and the children are pretested on Friday.