5/7/2023 0 Comments Class bingo second grade![]() I would rather challenge kids with a few difficult words than working on a large number of easy words. And you have some kids who are ready for the challenge of caterpillar. In a 2nd grade class you have some kids who will be struggling to spell cat. I love that the kids get to choose their own words. The last thing you want is a spelling list going home with misspelled words. ![]() I check it a 2nd time and then it goes in the homework folder. They choose 10 words and write it in their spelling notebook (to leave at school).Īfter I’ve checked that the 10 words are spelled correctly, I give them this week’s spelling homework menu and they write the spelling list there. Once our list is in tip-top shape, the kids choose their own spelling words for the week. Also, if a student suggests a word that isn’t on my list I add it so I’ll have it for next year! When that happens, I have a list of word suggestions I can refer to my words if we need to flesh out the list a bit. I push everybody to think of at least 3 big words, but sometimes they can’t (or won’t) get that far (or everybody thinks of the same 3!). They all follow this same format.)Īs we’re making our class list, I address misconceptions (like hab) and misspellings ( soak can’t go with oke). (My awesome mother makes up a year’s worth of charts for me during the summer. The medium words (blend/digraph + rime) goes in the middle. The small words (single consonant onset + rime) go in the left column. You’ll notice that she has “hab” written as a word (she’s thinking of it as related to habitat) and she’s misspelled laboratory.Īfter everyone has made some headway with their word lists (the high kids are usually discussing big words, the strugglers are still working through the onsets), I post a large chart paper on the board and we create a class list. And when someone suggests “bakeing,” we can have a quick little lesson right then about the e-drop rule.Īt this point (after a few weeks of training) they’re working independently. For -ake we might list baker, bakery, snowflake, mistake, retake, taken, etc. Chunk spelling gives them a real-life reason to do so. The “big words” are where the magic happens.Ģnd graders are supposed to work with compound words, prefixes, and suffixes. Then they are challenged to think of any “big words” that have the week’s rime. If it’s a real word ( cop, not dop), they write the word in their notebook.Īfter listing all the words they can make with the onsets, the students set the sound board and chunk strip aside. ![]() They place the rime next to each onset on the board and say the word aloud. They use a sound board that contains beginning consonants and blends/digraphs. Students are given a small strip of paper with the week’s rime. The basis for “chunk spelling,” as you might imagine, is the “chunk.” This is the rime (word family) that we focus on all week. After that my team tried variations on Words Their Way spelling lists, but once we learned about “chunk spelling” we didn’t look back. When I started teaching, I used the word lists from the basal (each student had the same words with some extra words for the high kids). (I don’t think the workshop presenters invented this either, but in my research for this post I can’t figure out where it originated.) I can’t take credit for it–I learned about it at a district workshop 9 or 10 years ago. I’m not sure if an ideal spelling program is possible, but I think we’ve got something that’s pretty close. ![]() quickly and efficiently transfer spelling words to their writing.master words and spelling patterns that can be generalized to other words.be challenged at their individual levels.be engaged in the process and have an opportunity to exercise choice.make connections among words in many ways.learn strategies that will help them spell or read any word.With an ideal spelling program, children would: So I should make the spelling words as meaningful as possible, right? That being said, spelling lists are expected. I also believe that a weekly word list has very little carryover into written work. I think that the best way to learn how to spell is to spend extensive time reading and writing. Spelling is one of those things that EVERYONE has an opinion about and very few people agree on.
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