Monday:

Every Monday a new spelling pattern is introduced in class, and students are given 5 new high frequency words to study.  Before the pattern is introduced, students will take a pre-test to assess their prior knowledge of the pattern.  All students will then be given 10 pattern words to study at home.  Students who score a 90% or better on the practice test will be given more challenging words (that follow the same pattern) for their study list.

On this day a word study packet will also come home that explains the new spelling pattern and describes the related homework activities.  Students have all week to work on the assignments in the packet and are asked to return it to school on the following Friday, the day of the weekly test.

Tuesday, Wednesday &

Thursday:

In school, students will rotate though a variety of word study centers that will help them practice both the pattern-based spelling words and their assigned high frequency words.  At home, students should spend some time each night working on the assignments in their weekly word study packet.

Friday:

The weekly spelling test will always be on Friday.  This is also the day that the weekly word study packet homework packet is to be returned to school.  After students take the spelling test in class, the corrected test will be returned to students so that they can record any words that they spelled wrong in their word study notebook.

Every so often, students will have a week where their entire spelling list will be made up of these misspelled pattern words.  If students misspell a high frequency word, it will remain on their high frequency word list until it is spelled correctly.