DS is in Year 1 and overall is doing fine. He has weekly spelling tests of 10 words with common letter combinations, sh, th, ee etc. He started out fine on these, getting 8 - 10 of them right. The last couple of weeks this has fallen and I'm trying to understand why and how I could help him learn spellings more easily.
I've sat down with him and the list and asked him which letters are in all of the words and then asked him to sound them out. We then go through the words, jumbling them up and asking him to write them out on a piece of paper. He was having trouble with 'th'words so for the ones he was having difficulty with he wrote the letters on individual pieces of paper and had to put them up on the wall in the right order. I kept the sessions short, did a little each night and tried to make it fun with lots of praise for getting it right. I thought he would probably get one /two wrong but remember most of them. He got two right. Repeated the next week, keeping it short etc. When I sit next to him and 'test' him he gets the majority right, however at the test he got two right.
I'm wondering if there is anything else I can try, I am going to ask his teacher if he is getting distracted (he is a bit of a dreamer) or if she has any suggestions.
I'm now trying letters on the floor and he has to jump from one to another when I shout out the word. If he gets it wrong and jumps on the wrong letter he falls into the pit below and ends up in the belly of the Almighty Za'Lag from Star Wars Return of the Jedi. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Help with spelling tests
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BlueberryHill · 28/10/2012 16:56
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