teaching spellings -ideas please - Page 1

hi everyone,

i'm a mom of 5yr old .finding it difficult to teach all those spellings.he struggles to remember it all.any new ideas please to teach please

use phonetic method. stress more on sounds. teach him letter-sound association.

for example, if u teach 'at'..then make lot of permutation combinations using at..like cat, bat, rat, sat, mat..once the sounds of s, m, b , r etc are learnt, he will start applying them while trying to spell.

the more you focus on 'remembering' the spellings, the more confusing it will become. make charts of one sound combination at a time and paste it on wall. sit down with him and read it everyday. he will learn the spellings.

there are many methods of teaching spellings, like drill methods, flashcard method, spelling games..there are websites where he can play spelling games.

use your mother tongue to teach sounds of letters.

if u wish i can send you couple of pages on spelling games.

HI Aanchal, very good info..

Me too use flash cards - teaching method for my kid.

Haven't heard @ drill method...can you please give me more info about it?

Can you please send me the pages on spelling games? sending e-mail by inbox

Thanks

Pritam

Hi Aanchal,

Let us know about the websites and the driliing method too.

If you don't mind kindly  email me the spelling games too .

Thanks,

Mickey.

thanks a lot aanchal.

i'll follow your  ideas.please send me the links for the websites and spelling games too.he loves doing  worksheets but he dislikes writing the same words repeatedly.he'll listen for half an hour, after that he cant concentrate.he is in 1st grade.are everyone in his age like that? 

kids find it difficult to sit for more than 20 minutes at a stretch. if you feel that his concentration disappears after half an hour, then make slabs of 10 minutes. do an activity then take a break. in that break he can go to loo, have water, stretch, talk, whatever. it will give you a break too between 2 activities.

i will send spelling games pages to all of you in few hours..will send you a small write up on drill method too..hope it helps

Hi All,

This is Shailaja. Joined yesterday. Check out these websites kids would enjoy learning.

http://www.kidsspell.com/

http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmsv/smg/

Hope this helps

Cheers

Shailaja

 Hi Aanchal

Will it be possible for you to email me the spelling games too . Will send email on this.

Thanks

As suggested by Aanchal, phonetic sound is the best way to teach spellings.

My son currently 7 years 3 months old is very good at spellings. He even won schools spelling challege last year. From childhood,(from his age 7 months) I used to show him picture books and speak out the names of the words. In this way he was conversant with many words. Then we started playing rhyming words game which both of us enjoyed a lot. In the process, I used to write spelling of rhyming words and explain meanings of the words too.

Moreover, we played many spelling games on the web and bookworm adventures deluxe is his favourite.

Another way is to break the words in small pieces like together=to+get+her, thinking = thin+king. This becomes very interesting.

We have some 4-5 good books on spelling with wonderful worksheets. I will provide the list, author, publisher etc next time.

bye 4 now.

thanks TGshah,

I'll be awaiting for your list.

yes tejal..your list will be very helpful to all of us here :)

Books on spelling which I found useful and my son completed with great interest and enjoyed a lot are

1. Flip-Flap Spell 'n' Learn Three letter words (120 words for you to spell 'n' learn)- A Wilco Book-Published by Wilco Publishing House, Mumbai Tel. (91-22) 2204 1420 / 22842574 Fax (91-22) 22041429 Email :wilcos@vsnl.com

2. Pascal's Basic Primary Spelling (How to become a good speller) by P. Walker Published by Scholastic

3.Spelling Success Level 1-3 (Graded Activities that Target Problems in spelling) by Peter Clutterbuck - Published by Scholastic

I believe that our children learn almost anything easily when we use playway method and be sincerely involved in the process of learning and teaching. What we enjoy, our children are most likely to enjoy because in childhood, parents have great influence on children. Great way to get things done from children is to love them (express our love towards them) and understand their feelings and respect their decisions and of course play with them their favourite games/toys.

Regards,

Tejal G Shah

Amazing discussion going on. friends..Just happened to see...

Thanks Tejal for the list. Can u get  them in Crossword ?

rgds,
Mickey

I got the 1st book -flip-flap Spell 'n' Learn from crossword.

Sadly, the other books from Scholastic are actually not available in any shop / bookstore. Scholastic people sell books thru book exhibition cum sale in schools only. They had such exhibition in my son's school and I got books from there. Another way to by these books is to visit their website and orderonline (i am not sure if they sell that way). Pl. check the website Scholastic.com, They claim 2 b d world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books www.scholastic.com

They have books on a wide variety of subjects but many books r slightly costly. The books on spelling that I referred abv r at a reasonable price ranging from 125 -200.

thanks for the list tejal..i have the fliip flap book for words as well as sentences..they are excellent..i will try to buy the other two u have mentioned..i will also try to post a list of books and games that i use for spelling remediation.

Thanks Tejal...your list will be helpful

You r right Tejal for Scholastic books...they sell thru schools....in my kids school they have a stall on each meetings day.

And als we can order books by website...

Cheers,

Pritam

hi ......thanx for ur useful tips my daughter is 5 and it will be very helpful  2 her.even in her school they have these kind of books.

Hi Tejal, yesterday checked at home that my kid has book "Flip-flap spell 'n' learn 3 letter word...

I bought this book when he was 2.5 yrs old and tried to learn some words with him at tht time...flip n flap style he liked a lot and he showed more interest in this book than any other book....sometimes he opens the book without any of us and try to make words....sometimes wrongs, sometimes right...but he is having fun...

very nice book with flip n flap....me too got from crossword :) Cross word always have something new and interesting collection of books...

Cheers

Pritam

thanks Tejal.

i'll try to get those books u had mentioned.I have some scholastic books.

My son is in first grade.But he finds it little difficult to spell all those compound words.He's improved a lot now.

Thanks for all the advice of our members.

Hope for the best.

lilliac

Hey anchal...can you send me those spelling games pages and a write up on drill method too..

Thanks

monica

Hi everyone,

Found this discussion very useful....my elder son is in 1st standard and the school has started difficult words and spellings, dictation etc...

Aanchal, pls if you could send me the spelling games as well...

Thanks

simran

hi anchal

can u send me the spelling game websites and  want to know about drill method too

the discussions are really interesting

thanks to tejal the informations are really helpful

kannanmdhu

Please don't teach ur child to By heart spellings its a bad practice. In schools teacher tell students to write one 5 times or ten times like that but this is not the proper way to teach spellings.

First Important thing is to teach to build the spellings by using phonics.

Concept of Phonics should be clear.

Then teach the sight words  the words that are some of the most frequently used words in the English language. The following are pre-primary sight words there  are more for 1st graders and 2nd graders.

                                    a                  and                 away 
                                    big               blue                can 
                                    come          down              find 
                                    for                funny              go 
                                    help             I                       in 
                                    is                 it                      jump 
                                    little             look                make 
                                    me              my                   not 
                                    one             play                 red 
                                    run              said                see  
                                    the              three                to 
                                    two             up                     we 
                                    yellow        you  

  Then teach the three letter Rhyming words

for eg :  Cat , Bat , Sat, Rat, Pat , Mat etc

then four letter rhyming words and more

Then teach  Use of Vowels and Consonants

Then play wordsearch game with them.

I play Scrabble with my (1st grader) son.

Then you can play Crossword with them.

I play Hangman game with my son.

correction

In schools teacher tell students to write one *word  5 times or 10 times

The following is the eg of wordsearch game for the above sight words. You can create such puzzles on paper and play with them. This creates interest in them rather than writting one word 10 times

L I T T L E R U N Y
K Q T K U M C X H S
W Y D O W N A Q E X
G O L T G N N K H X
U F N R I K O R E H
R O U C L Y T D L S
T Z C N B R O Q O X
W L T T N E M E O R
X H O T T Y N Y K U
I P N C E O D L W X

1. ME 2. TO
3. GO 4. RUN
5. NOT 6. MAKE
7. LOOK 8. DOWN
9. FUNNY 10. LITTLE

Other thing you can do is take few sight words and mix them and tell ur child to make a sentence using those words.

For eg  sight words    want    to         we     play   .

sentence  :    We want to play.

Great ideas... i guess it works well most of the times... and also each child is unique... for me spliting works the best... i split the word and my  5 year ols can spell it... and also  i had taught him the sounds that each letter makes.. so he knows a is as in 'apple' etc. etc... also it is important to tell that at some places group of words can sound differently gh for instance.... nonetheless its confusing for these little ones.... but then practice , practice and more practice is what we can do... there is no magic formula !!! cheers to all and love to kids

Types of words you can teach

Question Words  :  Who,Where,Which,When,What

Compound Words : Show  Pictures  Foot  +  ball  =   Football

                                                  Rain +  Bow  =  Rainbow

Action Words  : Play,Kick,Dig,Jump etc

Opposite Words : UP  DOWN 

                                 SLOW FAST     etc

Number Words : 1  One   etc

Color Words :    Red , Blue etc

Words that sounds alike  : TO TWO , THERE THEIR ,HEAR HERE

Words that describe taste& feel : HOT,COLD,SOFT

Hi  Pooja  Sometimes the letters  l,k,h,w,t,b and gh  are silent.

For eg   GH words   SIGH,HIGH,NIGHT

               K words      KNOB,KNIT,KNEE 

wow..poonam has given a good list of everything here!

@monica: have sent you a mail..check it

@simran, kannanmadhu: what level are your kids at? send me your email ids too..the details given by poonam is also very good :)

Great! That's such a perfect list Poonam! I'm surely gonna make use of it with my son....Thanks!