![]() Studies show that students who receive word sort instruction perform better in phonemic segmentation, word identification, and spelling than students who receive traditional spelling instruction. I was excited to learn that researchers find word sort activities improve not only spelling, but also reading skills! They practice with the spelling sort in a variety of waysĭo Sorting Activities Actually Improve Spelling?.They sort cards with words that each fit into each of the categories.Kids learn the sound or rule for each category.Words in a sort are chosen because they fit in specific categories. With no rhyme or reason to the word lists, it WAS a tedious effort to memorize those spellings.īut that’s just the way spelling had to be… or was it? In the early 90s the weekly spelling lists were a random collection of words that someone, in some office, somewhere, thought kids needed to know how to spell. The question is: why, for a decent reader and writer like me, was it so hard to memorize the words on my spelling list? That’s when my mom stepped in with something loud and theatrical to sear the word into my memory (and also to get my perfectionistic butt to bed!) ![]() I did the typical practice, copy the word a few times, try it from memory, question what in the world is wrong with me when my attempt doesn’t match the narrow paper list… again! It wasn’t that my mom loved spelling like teachers love a snow day. ![]() “B clap, U-R clap, R-I clap -E-D!” she’d chant. ![]() N Thursday nights when I was in 2nd grade, my mom turned into a spelling cheerleader.
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