Spelling Information:
This year, all Region 6 students in grades 4-6 will again be working with a spelling program called Sitton Spelling.
Your child's program may be different from what you've come to expect as "spelling". Instead of weekly lists of words to memorize, Sitton Spelling emphasizes the learning of important words, not for a Friday Test, but for a lifetime of spelling in the real world-that is, spelling correctly in writing.
This lifelong spelling ability grows over time. It grows through skills instruction (phonics, word origins, spelling rules, usage, etc.), through your child's everyday writing, and through word study on specific words your child has not yet mastered. You can extend this teaching into your home.
Every 5-8 days, Words to Learn will be sent home. These are a list of Spelling Words your child has not yet mastered. We will identify these words in class through a weekly spelling assessment. Help your child study these words every day or so to master them once and for all. That is our goal.
With the first Words to Learn sheet, I will send home ideas for you and your child to do together to learn these words.
To help your child learn and use essential skills:
This year, all Region 6 students in grades 4-6 will again be working with a spelling program called Sitton Spelling.
Your child's program may be different from what you've come to expect as "spelling". Instead of weekly lists of words to memorize, Sitton Spelling emphasizes the learning of important words, not for a Friday Test, but for a lifetime of spelling in the real world-that is, spelling correctly in writing.
This lifelong spelling ability grows over time. It grows through skills instruction (phonics, word origins, spelling rules, usage, etc.), through your child's everyday writing, and through word study on specific words your child has not yet mastered. You can extend this teaching into your home.
Every 5-8 days, Words to Learn will be sent home. These are a list of Spelling Words your child has not yet mastered. We will identify these words in class through a weekly spelling assessment. Help your child study these words every day or so to master them once and for all. That is our goal.
With the first Words to Learn sheet, I will send home ideas for you and your child to do together to learn these words.
To help your child learn and use essential skills:
- Take-Home Tasks will be sent home regularly. They are skill-building activity sheets for you and your child to do together. These tasks will complement the skills we're working on at school.
- Skill-Building Exercises are homework activities for you and your child to do to prepare for or follow up on our class lessons.
- Papers for Proofreading will come home often. You see, your child will be expected to spell some words correctly all the time to meet the minimum requirement for spelling in everyday writing. These words are called Priority Words. They are the words that occur most frequently in writing. As your child proofreads for these words, she/he will practice the skills for proofreading any word. You and your child will be kept informed of this list of words that will grow throughout the year. Along with the first papers for proofreading, I will send home ideas for you to use as you and your child proofread these papers together.