Ways+to+help+your+child+at+home

Here are some suggestions for helping your child at home __Word Cards:__
 * Reading
 * 1) Make sentences and get your child to read them back to you.
 * 2) Make a sentence but have 2 words mixed up. Get your child to read it and fix up the mistake.
 * 3) Make a sentence but have 1 or 2 words turned over so you can't see the word. Get your child to predict what the words are. Turn over to check. (Good for making sure it makes sense and sounds right).
 * 4) Get your child to make the sentence that you say. This way they have to find the correct words and put them in the correct order. Get him/her to read it back to make sure it sounds right.
 * 5) Use them just as flash cards.
 * 6) Group them according to different things: eg; 3 letter words, ones starting with t etc. ||
 * __Spelling:__
 * 1) Practice the words in their lists every day.
 * 2) Practice these in random order so children don't just write the words in the order it is in the book (this shows that they don't really know the words!)
 * 3) Make it fun......practice them orally in the car on the way to school, write them down in lots of different ways (eg: capital letters, fancy letters, coloured letters, in the sand, in shaving cream, with macaroni alphabet letters).
 * 4) Spelling tests are normally on Friday. Any words the cildren get wrong are put into next weeks list for further practice.
 * 5) Once they have learnt all the words in the list, they are given a List Test. They need to know all these words before they can move onto the next level.
 * 6) It is not enough that they can spell the words in a test though. Students must be using these words in their writing!! That is what it is all about. This may be why students are still on a List that you think they know, and why the teacher has not put them on the next list. ||
 * 1) It is not enough that they can spell the words in a test though. Students must be using these words in their writing!! That is what it is all about. This may be why students are still on a List that you think they know, and why the teacher has not put them on the next list. ||