Week of Word Work

This week, we began another part in our Daily 5 -Word Work. We are continuing to use the Fundations spelling program, but this year, there will be more independent work and choice with practice. Giving children the opportunity to choose increases their motivation and success. Likewise, letting children be independent (instead of grouping and dictating words) allows children to feel confident in themselves because they are working at their own pace. Every day, we start by drilling sounds and learning or reviewing a spelling idea or rule. For the first few units, we are reviewing rules learned last year.

During Word Work, children choose between: white boards, magnetic boards, colored pencils/crayons and paper, and clay. Then they work independently on spelling, marking and make sentences with their words.

And you guessed it, we build stamina. This week children worked quietly and independently during word work for 10 minutes!