My daughter is very intelligent and she love to write. However, when I read some of the stories she's writing, I'm noticing she don't have her spelling skills together. Is there any suggestions you may have to help me to help her. She's spelling the words out exactly how they sound. For instance if you ask her to spell the word learn she'll spell it lurn.
2006-12-06 08:45:34 · 9 answers · asked by me 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
My daughter is in fourth grade, and I have noticed that many of her papers don't have the grammer or spelling corrected. Just a big star for content. Pathetic, in my opinion! So, I sit down with a red pen, and correct the spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Then I give it back to her (and jokingly tell her to be glad I'm not her teacher!) That way, she at least understands that although the content IS good, there is room for improvement. I've been told that the general thought of teachers today is that they don't want to squelch the child's creativity. BAH! How creative are they when they're 9 and spelling 'our' as 'are'??? OK, I'm not harsh with her about it, but I do want her to be the best she can be, and if she's not told NOW what she's doing incorrectly, how will she figure it out later?
Stepping down from the soap box now. =)
2006-12-06 08:58:29 · answer #1 · answered by shellbugger 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is how they learn how to spell. Buy her a good dictionary and help her to look up the correct spelling of words. Dictionaries are stillused at school. My daughter s class had a dictionary testabout looking things up and most of the kids failed because they did not follow the dictionary directions correctly. My daughterwas the only student that passed because she went over the questions without rushing to finish as students do. Encourage the use of the dictionary.
2006-12-06 08:59:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you keep a notebook or folder with word lists as she learns them? And be sure to list the right spellings with other words spelled the same way, so she associates them together and learns the whole group at once.
For help to put sounds and words together, there are levels of "Hooked on Phonics" that help. Also a great education video series with the "Letter Factory" and the "Word Factory" that many parents recommend to other families with young children.
2006-12-06 08:53:55 · answer #3 · answered by emilynghiem 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's great that your 7 year old is writing stories. Find out from her teacher if she has been taught the rules for certain words. If it's not a spelling word she has had, leave it alone. Better to do it than to do it right at this age. When she is 25 and getting ready to get married and you pull out these stories, you will think the misspellings are a hoot.
2006-12-06 08:53:08 · answer #4 · answered by kramerdnewf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My 1st grade teacher would correct the words I spelled incorrectly and have me rewrite it. Seeing the word again and writing it correctly should help her (in two dimensions no less) to remember it for next time. Although it took me a long time not to write "lick" for like for some reason.
2006-12-06 08:48:47 · answer #5 · answered by Atrain 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy a few index playing cards, a Manila folder(dossier Folder), a few markers and creativeness. Create a usual recreation board at the folder. Color it with the markers. Write the phrases at the index card. You are making a recreation. You can use dry beans because the pawns or borrow a few from an extra recreation. Each time your niece says the phrase safely she will get to transport 2 areas. For each and every mistaken reply she does not transfer and the cardboard is situation on the backside. First one to the conclude wins. Another recreation you might do is write the phrases on slips of brightly coloured production paper and situation them face down on a desk. Have her flip over the slips of paper separately and say the phrases. She will get to preserve those she will get proper. If she struggles announcing the phrases have her accessed at college. She will have a listening to predicament or speech predicament.
2016-09-03 11:21:41 · answer #6 · answered by bollinger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my niece in USA did exactly that when she was about 6 or 7. I thought it needed to be corrected but her teacher said no. She was right. She is now 15 and her spelling is perfect !
2006-12-06 08:58:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
have her wirte the words many times and tell her to pronounce the words while writing. then quiz her
2006-12-06 08:54:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yelll at her so she could get it right
teach her about 1-2 hours a day
2006-12-06 09:50:46 · answer #9 · answered by COOL 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋