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Reading & Writing Notebooks Week - Wednesday


I {heart} using notebooks in my classroom!
How many times do you hear "How do you spell ____?" at the beginning of the year. To encourage my students to phonetically spell, we do weekly spelling practice in our reading and writing notebooks. I give them two words a week to stretch out and spell on their own. One word is always a cvc word. We talk about how 5 and 6 year olds spell words differently because they hear different sounds. When they ask me "Is this how you spell ____?" I tell them "That is exactly how a 5 year old would spell that word." After we do this for a few weeks I no longer hear "How do you spell ___?" throughout my room during writing workshop. I also use these weekly spelling practice pages as assessments for things to work on during reading or writing workshop. 


Later in the year we do other activities like write it and draw it.
Inspiration for "that is exactly how a 5 or 6 year old would spell that" 
and other writing workshop ideas...
Mrs. Bell

7 comments:

  1. I love the idea of two words to stretch and spell. When do you start doing that?

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    1. I started the spelling practice about a month or so into the year. I do a drawing unit as my first writing unit of the year, so I start the spelling practice at the same time we start labeling pictures during writing workshop.

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  2. Thank you for this series of posts and the student examples.

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  3. I LOVE my weekly spelling!! I am going to do that in the fall. Thanks for sharing!

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    1. Just like I will be doing a million of your ideas in the fall:)

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  4. I love this idea. Last year I used just science notebooks and had their writing in a writing folder. I like this so much better as it is all in one place and will be easier for the students to see how much they grow and change. Thank you

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