Yesterday was the start of a new week and therefore the start of a brand new spelling list.
I have just recently began working in a spelling lesson into the class. The idea is, if people can spell more words on their own, their thought process will not be interrupted as often because they won't have to ask someone to spell a word. If the thought process is not interrupted people's thoughts will flow better and help make them better writers.
Last week I broke the class into two groups and assigned each group a list of spelling words. I found from my test results last week that this method needed some tweaking because some trainees found the words to be too easy or too hard. To try something different I allowed the trainees to choose their own words. I'll know by the end of this week if this method works better. I can say already that most of the class found the idea of choosing their own spelling words to be very exciting and they dove head first into the task by selecting words like, "photosynthesis."
No comments:
Post a Comment