Spelling

9th grade that I had a teacher who showed me how to set up an essay so that it is easier to read. One of the simplest things I struggle with in my writing career was spelling. Starting in elementary I would memorize words for a spelling test instead of actually learning how to spell them. This snow balled into a bad habit of spelling rather simple words wrong through out my middle and high school career. One of my earliest memories of learning to read and write, was with a computer program…

Derek is a 10 year old, third grade student, who will be entering the fourth grade next school year. Derek’s results from standardized test indicate that he has above average general intelligence and is reading on a second grade reading level. Derek is able to apply a phonetic decoding strategy when attempting to decode words. Derek writes with a cursive writing style, typical of students his age. According to recent achievement testing, Derek has a below average scores for word identification…

insightful to see how her writing sample and spelling ability matched her developmental…

higher. A piece that is ridden with spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors is difficult to read and undermines the credibility and authority you probably have worked hard to achieve. Learn some proofreading steps and apply them to every piece of written communication,…

This week’s tutoring session required me to work with a third grade girl. She needed help on her spelling words, because she had an upcoming spelling test that week. We started going over the spelling words, but she was taking a long time to answer me. The next alternative we chose to do was I call them out to her and she writes them on a paper. That was a huge difference in quickness. I tried to help her out as much as possible, but I could tell she did not care as much as she needed to about…

The objective of this 30 minute professional development workshop is to inform pre-service undergraduate teachers of useful strategies and interventions that may be useful in their classrooms. The intended goal is to provide research-based assessment strategies that will improve literacy proficiency in their students. Teacher preparation programs teach theory therefore, the teachers do not have the hands-on experience they need. By having this workshop and future workshops to keep teachers…

from my former English teacher. Within a minute of my life, my six-year dream of competing in the national spelling bee trickled down the drain. I believed I was a failure until I came to an understanding of what I gained in the process. In second grade, I found out about the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Three years later I was allowed to compete. I won three consecutive school-wide spelling bees, placing fourth in the state of Wisconsin as a sixth grader. My eighth grade year, I was…

writing. At 1:22 seconds, Mrs. Smith said James has been struggling with spelling since first grade. 1:36 seconds into the video, test scores show problems with spelling and punctuation. This shows the initial discussion of problems James is having in school. At the 1:56 mark, I state that the testing shows there are problems with spelling and punctuation. These scores provide baseline information for James. Also, spelling and punctuation are quantifiable behaviors which can be observed and…

commonly this is described as a means of teaching reading and is not associated with writing and spelling, nevertheless phonics is essential to the development of writing, spelling and reading. Children need to learn phonic skills to be able to blend sounds, segment sounds and manipulate sounds, thus enabling them to learn to read, write and spell effectively. Phonics is often described as the reading, spelling and writing of words by the sounds heard (Edwards, 1964). It is the understanding…

Societies have different cultures and people in each culture are grown and raised with a set of norms, values, and beliefs. Culture is a set of norms, values, and beliefs (repetition) which are shared in a specific society amongst (spelling) people. These values and beliefs (repetition) are learned from their childhood through their adulthood. Culture is not something which everyone is born with, but it is something which everyone learns while growing up. It does not only influence the daily…