Contributor
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Strategy
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Susan Nixon
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Create individual spelling dictionaries for students. Have a separate section for each letter of the alphabet. When students ask you to spell a word, write it in their personal dictionaries for continued use. There are many ways to make these dictionaries. One way that has proved useful to me is this.
- Type a Dolch List in about 14-25 type, depending on your grade level. Separate each group of words with a couple of blank lines.
- Copy enough for your class.
- Have students cut the word strips apart and glue them onto the edges of paper (then stapling inside construction paper to make a booklet), or on pages in spiral notebooks. They do not need to be tabbed; however, you might have students color the edges of the pages for beginning, middle and end of the alphabet.
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