Spelling and Tatiana have frustrated me for years and years now. At first we did lists (and they didn't help because she spelled correctly when working and then would revert to misspelling in context. She still does that sometimes.
What we did last week was I made post-it notes of the words and put a few in the places she is most often so she had to see them and could practice them. Then we spelled them aloud when we were driving in the car. Then everyday I gave her the words and she wrote them out and the ones she misspelled she wrote 5 or 10 times each. They are her vocab words too so she is using them in context in class and is tested on the meaning as well.
She strongly prefers math and science. She is extremely advanced in reading. But spelling drives her crazy - she likes her rules to stay consistent. She wants phonics to make sense and for there to not be so many exceptions to everything. She was about 4 I think the first time she argued with me about the word have. There's that pesky silent E at the end and she insisted that it should either be pronounced HAY-VE or spelled h-a-v. Then she wanted to learn to spell in a different language that makes more sense. I suspect she'd be very good with Russian.
I chunk words when I learn them. When we were doing permanent last week both chris and I kept telling her there's a man in the middle because she wanted it to be permenent. She doesn't seem to do that. It drive me crazy to listen to her spell out loud because the way she breaks words up makes no sense to me.
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What we did last week was I made post-it notes of the words and put a few in the places she is most often so she had to see them and could practice them. Then we spelled them aloud when we were driving in the car. Then everyday I gave her the words and she wrote them out and the ones she misspelled she wrote 5 or 10 times each. They are her vocab words too so she is using them in context in class and is tested on the meaning as well.
She strongly prefers math and science. She is extremely advanced in reading. But spelling drives her crazy - she likes her rules to stay consistent. She wants phonics to make sense and for there to not be so many exceptions to everything. She was about 4 I think the first time she argued with me about the word have. There's that pesky silent E at the end and she insisted that it should either be pronounced HAY-VE or spelled h-a-v. Then she wanted to learn to spell in a different language that makes more sense. I suspect she'd be very good with Russian.
I chunk words when I learn them. When we were doing permanent last week both chris and I kept telling her there's a man in the middle because she wanted it to be permenent. She doesn't seem to do that. It drive me crazy to listen to her spell out loud because the way she breaks words up makes no sense to me.