Re: Spelling help needed

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I have a couple of ideas that would put the ownership on the
student and not make much extra work for you:
1. Have the student pull vocab words from whichever book she is
currently reading. She could write her list of 15 words or
whatever, give the list to you on Monday, and then you would
test her on her words on Friday. (It would mean just a short 5
mins or so of one-on-one time to test her.)

2. You can find lists of SAT words online or purchase box sets
of SAT vocab cards. You could have those for her to work from.
I paid about $12 for a box set and got it at Barnes and Noble.

3. Have her go farther with the regular list of spelling words
(look up word origins, write a story using all the words (which
you would then check for usage, spelling of entire story, etc.)

You might also find some great resources on the internet.
Good luck.

On 10/23/09, trinket wrote:
> Hi,
> We are a small private school. I have a fourth grade
> student who is bored with spelling. The children currently
> have a weekly spelling test, with 5 "challenge words",
> which are around 7th grade level. We do not have an aide,
> and we don't have a gifted/talented teacher. Mom is upset
> that her daughter isn't being "challenged enough". Any
> ideas or websites I can direct mom to? How does your
> school handle this situation?
 

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