Spelling

SPELLING TEST DATE: 
Friday, December 18th

Spelling Principle: Short e spelled ea spelling pattern


CORE LIST:  All students have these words:

bread     instead     meant     spread     breakfast

leather     ready     weather   feather    meadow

GROUP A LIST:
heavy     read     breath     ahead     thread

GROUP B LIST:

jealous     sweater     weapon     pleasure     treasure

Spelling Test Information
In the folder, you will find this week’s Spelling Pretest.  Please use the
list and the information provided by the pretest to help your child study. 
You will receive a sheet like this one each week that we are having a test. 
Most weeks, Spelling pretests will be given on Monday and Spelling tests will
be given on Friday.  Because of the holidays and days off school sometimes we
have our test on a Monday.  Please note the test date at the top of the sheet
each week.

The words on the left column are the ones your child completed as part of the
pretest.  The pretest is NOT counted for a grade.  The words circled are the
ones your child should study.  The words written in the right column are the
list copied by your child from the board.  This should provide you with all 
of the correct spellings.  

We will be working with these words in school for the remainder of this week.
Help your child to study the list and spelling skill at home.
 
There are many ways to help your child to succeed in spelling.  Here are a
few suggestions:  make your own flash cards,write sentences using the words,
make a word search, practice tests, spell orally or anything else that works
for your child.  If you have any questions, please contact me.  

Please be aware that on some spelling tests during 
the year, the students will be evaluated on their sentence writing skills 
and using spelling words in context.  A few simple sentences containing 
spelling words are dictated to the class.  Students are to write the 
sentences using correct  capitalization and punctuation as well 
as writing the spelling word correctly.  Spelling of any other word does 
not count.  Each sentence is several points:  1 point each for a capital 
letter at the beginning, 1 point for spelling each spelling word correctly, 
and using correct punctuation at the end of the sentence.

In addition, spelling tests will be used to assess the students' 
handwriting skills.  An "HW." grade will be written at the top of the 
paper.  

Either S - Satisfactory or NI - Needs Improvement will be assigned.