These next two weeks, and thereafter when needed, we are working on learning to spell words that each student has identified from his/her own writings. We encourage students to get their ideas and thoughts down in the writing journal and not be overly concerned with correct spelling. These are first drafts and mostly for the writer to see and use. Later in subsequent drafts we do polish up the spelling and other conventions (punctuation, capitalization, grammar, word choice etc.)
Students make lists of the words they find misspelled in their various rough drafts, again, mostly in their writing journal. They then are expected to write the words correctly several times and memorize them. There will be an assessment, as usual, for a part of their Language Arts grade.
Here is a link to a marvelous website for practicing their spelling demons.
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