Helping middle school students with spelling?
The spelling activities that I have looked up are geared towards elementary, but I haven’t found anything focused on middle school. Do you know of any specific activities geared towards 7th graders, or a website that I can check out? Any help is appreciated.
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http://www.splashesfromtheriver.com/spelling/courseoutline.htm
I would also look into a program called Wordly Wise 3000.
These books are about $8.00 to $ 10.00; each student could get one on their own level, and you could recommend that the parents get them for their children to help them, since the schools probably will not.
The workbooks are great, and a students vocabulary, spelling, and comprehension will grow significantly.
If a student is not very proficient in spelling, or vocabulary start at least 2 grades below their current grade level; 7th grade would translate into book 3, maybe 4.
A good teacher does not need the teachers packet, the answer keys will do. ($2.00 to $3.00 each).
http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/easy_find?Ntk=keywords&Ntt=wordly+wise+3000&action=Search&N=0&Ne=0&event=ESRCN&nav_search=1&cms=1&Go.x=20&Go.y=14
Seventh graders are probably old enough to enjoy this poem:
When the English tongue we speak
Why is break not rhymed with freak?
Will you tell me why it’s true
We say sew, but likewise few?
And the maker of a verse,
Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?
Beard is not the same as heard,
Cord is different from word,
Cow is cow, but low is low,
Shoe is never rhymed with foe.
Think of hose and dose and lose,
And think of goose and yet of choose,
Think of comb and tomb and bomb,
Doll and roll and home and some.
And since pay is rhymed with say,
Why not paid with said I pray?
Think of blood and food and good;
Mould is not pronounced like could.
Wherefore done, but gone and lone –
Is there any reason known?
To sum up all, it seems to me
Sounds and letters don’t agree.
Here are a few sites that may help you. Best of luck with it.
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