[blparent] Teaching Spelling Words

[Judy Jones]

Not sure if this addresses your issue, but can you let her feel a measure of 
success by spelling words that are alike, like call, fall ball all.  You 
could take the word all, go through the alphabet and say, if you place the 
letter B in front of All, what would that sound like?  And go through the 
alphabet that way.  You can really come up with some silly words that will 
get you both laughing, but help her start to understand phonetics and some 
of our spelling commonalities.

This may not be helpful when facing a word list brought home from school, 
but may start to give her the foundation for spelling.

Now that you mention it, I remember having my very active daughter at about 
that age practice a spelling word as she did a summersault.  Just another 
way of trying to enforce something and help them remember.

Hope this is helpful.

Judy


-----Original Message----- 
From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto via blparent
Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 9:17 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] Teaching Spelling Words

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.
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