Here’s a fun alternative to pencil and paper for doing spelling words when you have younger students working with one-syllable words. You will need magnetic letters and a magnetic doodle board. This works best if your magnetic letters have the magnet shaped like the whole letter. Have your student do the normal finger … Continue reading >
If you have a student who struggles with selecting the correct short vowel when spelling, one technique that might help is to use a different color marker for each vowel. You’ll need your drill cards with the short vowel on them, and 5 different color markers. Set the vowel cards … Continue reading >
Add a tactile component to spelling by incorporating actual objects that represent vowel sound keywords. Hopefully when you introduce a new sound, you provide your student with a keyword picture to associate a visual cue with the sound. You can take this one step further and also incorporate a tactile component … Continue reading >
