[blparent] Teaching Spelling Words

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

I have a six-year-old who is really struggling to learn spelling words.  We’ve tried spelling them aloud, writing them, and playing different games with flash cards, but she doesn’t seem to retain the information from one session to the next at all.  She and I are both exasperated.  Have any of you come across good ideas for doing spelling words with your kids?

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.