post 15: observations

I am still in the second grade classroom observing this wee. I noticed that the spelling is just given as a list for the students to memorize. I have seen that some of the kids in this class are struggling to just get their sight words down and do not know the basic concepts of decoding and phonics. Some of the students don’t know that an e at the end of a word makes the vowel long or that there are diagraphs that make different sounds. I think this class could benefit  from spelling lists that are differentiated. I really liked how we learned to differentiate spelling by using the words their way book. It has the kids in different groups according to their readiness and to what they know about spelling. Then the students are each given a different spelling list every week. I think this is a great way to teach basic word sounds and spelling concepts. I know that there are quite a few students in the class who are on low reading and spelling levels and I really think that implementing something like this would help them improve.