Spelling L15 Jan 4-10, 2008

We are trying something new with spelling. The new Spelling Lessons will be assigned on Fridays and then the following Wed will be the pretest and Thursday will be the final lesson test.

The reasons for the change are as follows:

• Since Friday seems to be a day several tests have fallen on and spelling is a definite test it is easy to move that to another day freeing up Friday a bit more and lessening the stress on the student.
• By assigning the lesson on Friday it adds 2 more days for studying the words and meanings since there isn't usually any formal homework assigned over weekends.
• The students that work with a modified list will be responsible for the spellings of the first 15 words but they need to know the meanings of all the words.
• It would benefit your child if they can use all the words in original sentences because that is how extra credit is earned on the test. I pick out 2 words and they must be able to use them in a sentence that is written properly. They do not know which 2 words will be the extra credit.

The words for the spelling test are listed in the previous blog. We weren't able to do L15 before we broke for Christmas vacation.