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[quote=Anonymous][quote]English major and mother of three FCPS ES students. I abhor Word Study. I consider it a waste of time and truly ineffective.

I have three terrible spellers who [b]resist my attempts[/b] to simply study their spelling words the way I did; memorize, continue to read widely and learn the definitions.

It seems that teachers today are bogged down with teaching methodologies and are moving too far away from the mechanics of literacy.

I am grateful for my own elementary school education in a depressed rural area. My school had no extra resources but was equipped with engaging, semi-strict teachers who made us memorize spelling lists and be able to use each word in a sentence of our creation. Same school insisted in cursive writing and lessons in spelling would integrate writing spelling words in cursive. Win-win.

But you just said what worked for you does not work for your three kids.[/quote]

Not the PP.  I don't think she said that it doesn't work for her kids; she said that they resist her attempts to get them to study a different way.  I can relate to this because my own child believes that I know nothing and that the teacher knows everything.  He resists my attempts to show him other ways of doing things because "that's not the way we're supposed to learn it".  Maybe you have not experienced this with your kid, but I think it's very common.  [/quote]

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