Weekly Spelling Assignments

 

Each full week of school students will be working on developing spelling proficiency of the words they commonly misspell or the words they are working on incorporating into their written and spoken language.  In addition, students will be actively engage in a word work program designed to help students to identify spelling patterns, understand word roots, suffixes, and prefixes and develop a higher level of vocabulary use.  Each student will create a unique individual spelling list to be studied during the week. 

 

During class on the Monday of each full week students search for words in their work that have been identified as misspelled and add them to their individual list of words to learn.  After the first marking period, students will be expected to do this over the weekend as homework and come prepared to school on Monday morning with their list.  Students may also add words from the class Word Wall that they would like to be proficient at spelling as they use these new words in their writing.  Additionally, as students find words in their reading that they find interesting or strong words they may add to their words to learn section of their Word Work Notebook.  The objective of locating individual words is to find words that students will use in their writing, speaking, and find while reading.  Words that are too scientific or obscure will not be accepted as weekly words.  Students collaborate with another student to check the spelling of each chosen word and double check that the word is correctly spelled on their study sheets.  A hand held spell checker/ thesaurus is handy to have in class to help correctly spell the word initially. 

 

We will also be adding words to our weekly spelling list we work on during the words our way word work each week.

 

On Friday students will be tested on the 5 words they choose at the beginning of the week to study as well as 5 randomly pick words from the weekly Words Our Way list students worked on each day.  As a result, students will be tested on a total of 10 words, 5 words they choose and 5 words from their weekly word work. 

 

Friday’s Spelling Test includes not only spelling ten words correctly but using each word correctly in a sentence.  A spelling grade as well as a vocabulary grade is given for each part of the test.  Words that are not spelled correctly are placed on the next weeks spelling list until students are able to correctly spell the word. 

 

 

Weekly spelling Homework

 

Monday night- Choose five words from your list and break the words into syllables.  Once the word is broken into syllables look for smaller parts, you already know how to spell.  Develop a strategy to remember how to spell and write two or three sentences about how you will use your strategy to remember how to correct spell this word. 

 

Tuesday night- Word Sort at home with Words Their Way words. 

 

Wednesday night- Pick ten words, 5 must be the words you picked to study and 5 from the words their way list and create sentences for each of these words that demonstrates you understand the words meaning. (Due on Friday)

 

Thursday night- Review and study any words that you are still having trouble spelling. Word Sort at home with Words Their Way words.