Students received their first spelling words today. Research reveals that formally teaching spelling does not really have a great impact on day to day spelling, but I do think that studying a word may start the process of learning to spell it correctly all the time, even if students often "forget" when writing their compositions. In our class, we take spelling words in frequency order. We will study the 1000 most common words in English.
Homework: Review spelling words with a partner to see which ones you know and which ones you need to study. Do the two Open Court worksheets, one on proper and common nouns, the other on compound words. Students may have different forms of these sheets. Start your first free-choice composition. Finish the assignments for Number Sense 1.2 if they are not already done, and get started on the assignments for Number Sense 1.4.
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