How to Spell Words

It can be very tricky to teach the correct spelling of words or to help kids with spelling. I wanted to give you a little insider scoop on how we teach first graders to spell. They count the sounds, draw lines for the number of sounds, and put the letters that make those sounds on each of the lines. Sometimes it isn't spelled correctly but the letter they have put makes that sound. As the year goes on, they learn spelling rules so that eventually those words that are spelled incorrectly (but spelled how it sounds) will be spelled correctly because of the new spelling rules they learned. For more information, check out this video at http://youtu.be/MXOy0Nx3kB4.