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Spelling
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Houghton Mifflin biweekly spelling- spelling patterns
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Word Wall- frequently misspelled words
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Ninety Most Common Misspelled Words
about
again
almost
also
always
anyone
are
before
buy
by
can’t
could
didn’t
doesn’t
don’t
enough
except
excited
first
friends
getting
have
hole
I’m
into
it’s
its
knew
know
laugh
let’s
myself
new
no
off
one
our
people
really
right
said
school
that’s
their
then
there
they
they’re
threw
to
too
trouble
two
until
usually
very
want
was
wear
we’re
went
were
what
when
where
who
whole
with
won
won’t
write
your
you’re
beautiful
because
especially
everybody
everyone
everything
favorite
probably
something
sometimes
terrible
through
whether
wouldn’t
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Nifty Thrifty Fifty- learning prefixes, suffixes, and roots
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antifreeze
beautiful
classify
communities
community
composer
continuous
conversation
deodorize
different
discovery
dishonest
electricity
employee
encouragement
expensive
forecast
forgotten
governor
happiness
hopeless
illegal
impossible
impression
independence
international
invasion
irresponsible
midnight
misunderstand
musician
nonliving
overpower
performance
prehistoric
prettier
rearrange
replacement
richest
semifinal
signature
submarine
supermarkets
swimming
transportation
underweight
unfinished
unfriendly
unpleasant
valuable
forecast
employee
continuous
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Chants! The brain likes patterns and rhythm.
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WORD WALL CHANTS
Caribbean Spelling — hands on hips, and swivel on each letter. On the word, say, “Woo!”
Sing opera style
Box It / Kickbox It — Correspond right/left arm/leg with vowels or consonants
Frisbee — throw each letter as you would a frisbee
Yo-yo — bend your arms at the elbow and alternate your hands up and down as you say each letter.
Voices — change your voice for each repetition: loud, soft, whisper, squeak, growl, baby-talk, etc.
Groups — different groups cheer after each other (boys, then girls, then whole class)
Blast Off - start crouched at floor as you say each letter get a little higher, when jump into the air as
you say the whole word I also use frog-jumps. They are similar to Blast-off. We start standing up. As we
say each letter, we crouch down a little farther. Then, as we say the word, we "jump".
Hand Jive - just like on the playground, pair up and clap hands for consonants and lap clap for vowels
Back Tracer - sit in circle and trace the letters as you spell on a partners back
Mouse -squeaky voice with hands curled up by face
Robot -in robotic voice with arms moving back and forth ("Danger! Danger! Will Robinson" style)
Fly it like a bird -arms flapping up and down
Chicken - arms folded up to make wings and head moving forward
Nose - hold your nose and spell it
Cheer It (Give me an "h" , etc.) Like a cheerleader.
Pat -- pat our heads for tall letters, tummies for short letters and knees for ones that go below the line
Beat it on our Desks
Snap and Clap -- We snap for the vowels and clap for the consonants.
Raise the Roof -- We just push up toward the ceiling, one push for each letter.
Ketchup -- Shake our hand like we’re trying to get ketchup out of a bottle.
Disco (Hand up for consonants, hand down for vowels) Pretend to be John Travolta.
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