I need some good spelling words for this nine year old boy he doesn't have any in regular school but I want to give him some to help him in English. I'm looking for a list of 5-20 words.
2006-09-02 04:48:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
This is what I suggest: my kids have spelling words and it seems odd that he does not have this in school. What they work in my kids elementary are words from their reading books. Look over a story that he has read or will be reading. Pick out words that are commonly misused or difficult for a 9 year old to understand.
My kids always have words like their, there and they're; here vs. hear... words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Too, two, and to are good ones as are toe and tow. Give tips like "hear" has the word "ear" in it and you hear with your ears. There refers to place just as here does and here is part of the word there. I do not know if I explain this next one right, but too means also like "I have a new bike too, and that means that 2 people have a bike... and it has 2 o's as opposed to 1.
They also usually have words that are similar in pronunciation but not quite such as rice vs. rise. They may group words with certain prefixes or suffixes like un or bi or tri and then explain that what the prefix does to the word. For example: you know that a unicycle has one wheel (uni) and a bicycle has 2 wheels (bi) and a tricycle has 3 (tri).
Also, it may be helpful for you to get a speller from a teacher store. If you do not really have the money you could always look at it in the store and get some ideas.
You could also do a web search for a local freecycle group and then post a request there for old spelling books that they no longer need.
Be sure that not only can he spell it, but that he also understands the meanings. Good luck!
2006-09-02 05:41:50 · answer #1 · answered by Melanie L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start with words that are misspelled most often. You can get a list on the net. friend, tomorrow, tongue, necessary, etc.
Progress to word that don't follow accepted spelling patterns (i before e except after c; blah, blah ): weird, leisure, their, etc.
Move on to words that are not pronounced the way they are spelled: colonel, stingy, queue, puny, etc.
Segue (a good word) to words taken from other lanquages: rodeo, ennui, rendezvouz, etc.
At the beginning of instruction, tell him he will be required to provide you with two words on separate index cards. These are words he finds interesting for ANY reason: hard to spell, interesting sound, great synonym, etc. The index card has to have the word, definition, ORIGINAL sentence, and you can add language of origin later.
I don't know how good you are at vocabulary, but you can challenge him to discover words that you don't know the meaning of or how to spell.
2006-09-02 12:19:15 · answer #2 · answered by RDW928 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let him pick out words of interest that are in the story he has just read. Give him guidelines such as he must pick out at least 5 words from each book that he doesn't already know how to spell and so on. Good luck.
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2006-09-04 02:45:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you should just pick out a couple of words. Maybe five or ten words. Get those words in the language he/she speaks and then get them in english. Try looking in the dictornary. They always have good words there.
2006-09-02 13:38:05 · answer #5 · answered by Shorty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 words? A toddler knows 5 words.
2006-09-02 11:53:54 · answer #6 · answered by sixpakforsure 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, you should start with a reading inventory and find out what grade level he is on and then use words from that grade level.
Also, do five at a time not 25---lots of encouragement.
2006-09-02 14:49:03 · answer #7 · answered by violetb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beginning (my daughter missed that one...she just turned nine)
2006-09-02 12:42:14 · answer #8 · answered by powhound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some words that closed to life, like "China" "crisis " "money" "pollution" "Yahoo!"
2006-09-02 11:58:25 · answer #9 · answered by Chanel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and you tutor ? omg !
2006-09-02 12:33:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋