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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?
4th Some students are just natural spellers which is wonderful for the child. Others can memorize a list of words long enough to get an A on a test, then spell them incorrectly later that day! Maybe you could have the child focus more on rules for adding suffixes to words. You can find resources for working with and understanding word roots, prefixes, ...See More
Oct 24, 2009
certifiedteach 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 shor...See More
Oct 25, 2009


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