Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Word Work

My students did not so great on this weeks spelling pretest.  So I decided they needed more deliberate work in their Word Work this week. I found some good resource ideas online for word work.  I came up with three stations for them.  BOGGLE, SCRABBLE, and this one, MAGNETIZING WORD WORK.  If you want the Boggle information, go to  http://mrsrojasteaches.blogspot.com/  For scrabble, I printed off scrabble word sheets found on  http://3rdgradesahoot.blogspot.com/ and then I printed off scrabble letter tiles from  http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/scramble_alphabet.html 



Since I am on the topic of Spelling/Vocabulary Word Work, I thought it appropriate to touch on something that has really helped improve my 3rd grade spelling test scores.  Each day we spend 3-5 minutes chunking and spelling our spelling words.  I have the students stand and get their arms ready.  Chorally, we say the word, chunk the word (using our arms to chunk out the different parts), then we spell the word (on our arms as well).  During this process they are seeing the words on the board (visual), saying and spelling it (auditory), and chunking it on their arms (kinesthetic).

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