Weak speller and dictation
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:05 pm
I'm on my phone so no laughing when auto correct makes a play on my "weak speller" post...k? LOL
DD is a rising 6th grader. Started teaching her to read at 4 only to find sshe already knew how. I slacked on phonics bc she was reading well beyond.phonics books. (Narnia at 6 yrs!) We didn't really do phonics bc of this and still she can sound.out words well snd isn't a sight reader. Her spelling was fine at first but then didn't she got older and her spelling ....did not. 2nd grade she started HOD and at first we kept doing spelling programs which she aced even two grade levels ahead. it just didn't.cross over to other work. we switched to just dictation ajd.finally saw improvement. she was on geade level by 4th grade and some of 5th but then plateaued. she hasn't improved any since. I'm wondering if I should go back ajd somehow teach these phonics skills or if we should do a rules based spelling.program but tweak it to be less list based somehow?? And do we keep on.doing.dictation while filling this gap?
She is still misspelling a lot of words but does very well with dictation. she has a great memory and it's actually to her disadvantage with dictation. I'm wondering if I should skip ahead in.dictation to a level she can't memorize so she has to just listen and think, or just do the spelling/phonics lessons.....or something else??
Right now she could do dictation without me :/ She studies it then ill read the first part and she can finish it all without me reading the rest. I tell her to wait but if she remembers it, what's the point? Maybe we are just too low a level?
FYI, it affects her copywork too bc she thinks she knows.how to spell and looks.over what seems easy and misspells that but gets hard.words correct. same with punctuation. she has major attention problems and that's part.of.it. (can't afford her meds right now which we avoided for years but they really do help her tremendously...)
DD is a rising 6th grader. Started teaching her to read at 4 only to find sshe already knew how. I slacked on phonics bc she was reading well beyond.phonics books. (Narnia at 6 yrs!) We didn't really do phonics bc of this and still she can sound.out words well snd isn't a sight reader. Her spelling was fine at first but then didn't she got older and her spelling ....did not. 2nd grade she started HOD and at first we kept doing spelling programs which she aced even two grade levels ahead. it just didn't.cross over to other work. we switched to just dictation ajd.finally saw improvement. she was on geade level by 4th grade and some of 5th but then plateaued. she hasn't improved any since. I'm wondering if I should go back ajd somehow teach these phonics skills or if we should do a rules based spelling.program but tweak it to be less list based somehow?? And do we keep on.doing.dictation while filling this gap?
She is still misspelling a lot of words but does very well with dictation. she has a great memory and it's actually to her disadvantage with dictation. I'm wondering if I should skip ahead in.dictation to a level she can't memorize so she has to just listen and think, or just do the spelling/phonics lessons.....or something else??
Right now she could do dictation without me :/ She studies it then ill read the first part and she can finish it all without me reading the rest. I tell her to wait but if she remembers it, what's the point? Maybe we are just too low a level?
FYI, it affects her copywork too bc she thinks she knows.how to spell and looks.over what seems easy and misspells that but gets hard.words correct. same with punctuation. she has major attention problems and that's part.of.it. (can't afford her meds right now which we avoided for years but they really do help her tremendously...)