How to teach: To make spelling instruction fun, students can
independently practice spelling using interactive learning activity SpeedySpeller.
To make it fun, students can
independently practice spelling using the interactive learning activity Aim 2 Spell.
Not exact matches
When
spelling practice is fun, students are motivated to study and are more likely to do so
independently.
When they are not working with the teacher, students work
independently or in the ability groups to
practice subskills of reading and writing (e.g.,
spelling practice, grammar
practice, handwriting) and work on theme - related writing assignments.
Each student met twice in a guided reading group, engaged with peers in three book clubs, participated in whole - class instruction at least three times, read
independently daily, engaged in whole - class book discussion daily, engaged in a variety of writing daily, and
practiced skills daily — some related directly to reading and discussing books; others to reading, writing,
spelling, and grammar subskills.
If sight words and phonics knowledge was what children needed to learn in order to perform the translation process, then decomposing phonics into separable bits of knowledge (letter - to - sound, or in the case of
spelling, sound - to - letter, correspondences), each of which could be presented,
practiced, and tested
independently, was the route to helping them acquire that knowledge.