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Kindergarten Spelling Accuracy
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Bad habits are hard to overcome. How many of us have been able to change a bad habit, overnight? Much conscious effort is required to alter them.
To induce accuracy in spelling doesn't require a separate program. Use whatever is at hand and is age-appropriate.
Here's how:
Take the sentence, Benny Bear bakes buns. Drill it orally until your child can recite it perfectly.
Next, write the sentence down on paper. Drill it again, several times, pointing to each word as you say it. If you wish, take your child's finger and point to each word as you say it, together.
Now, have her do it alone. Do this several times. When you're quite sure she's "got it," ask her to do it alone.
That done, write one word of the sentence on each of four cards, in correct order. Ask her to recite and point a few more times.
Then ask, "What letter is at the beginning of each word? What sound do you hear at the beginning of each word?" Point to the letter and tell me the sound you hear when you say each word.
Tell her you are going to change the order of the word cards. Her job is to put them in the same order as the original sentence. Do it. Make sure that the original sentence is visible to her. Do several scrambles. She will enjoy being accurate on every trial.
Do it again several times. This time turn the original sentence over. Allow her to refer to the original sentence, if necessary.
By this point, your child should be familiar enough with the words in the sentence to take it to the next level.
Using the original sentence, ask her to point to the word buns. Ask her to tell you the names of the letters in the word. When she completes that task, ask her what word it was that she spelled. Repeat this procedure with each of the words.
Using the word cards, scrambled, repeat the exercise, again. If she can't locate the word requested, tell her to look at the original sentence to figure it out. Do several scrambles.
Place the word cards in an envelope marked B. Store for future use. You will want to use the cards again as she learns more sentences.
What are the benefits to this practice?
Your child will...
Most importantly, she will focus on what we hear when we say words along with what they look like in written form. The long-term effect is that your child may become a good speller while building a basic sight vocabulary. She may remember these same words in other contexts....gain practice in letter naming
...increase her awareness of what a word is
...begin to realize each word has its own set of letters
...gain some problem-solving skills
...hear and process instructional language
...conduct a brain search to locate the word or name the letters
...be working with words in real sentences which express real ideas
...be learning to read.
In most schools, spelling is taught as a distinct program. Most, if not all, bear little or no relationship to the reading program used.
As an isolated program, it is little wonder that results on spelling tests are not reflected in the children's writing. Far too frequently, a student who gets 100 percent on a spelling test...
misspells those same words...when writing a sentence or paragraph.
Why?
Quite simply, there is no correlation between the spelling and reading programs.
Yet, life reality in unchanging. An employer's standards remain the same. Can the prospective employee...
Understand what he reads? Write a complete sentence, accurately? Spell correctly? Add, subtract, multiply and divide, with accuracy?Spelling accuracy begins in Kindergarten.
Kindergarten Spelling Accuracy at Kindergarten Tips And Skill Lessons
