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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find out at back to school night or ask my child what is the penalty for not turning in homework. Except for one teacher, there was no penalty except some type of "needs improvement"  homework grade on the report card. I have my son take a pretest and if he gets 100% I don't make him do any of the spelling homework. Whatever he misses then he only studies those one or two words. Over summer break I have him do a spelling program called All About Spelling, which actually breaks down words and teaches rules about spelling instead of getting random spelling words. He learned before first grade that words in English (except for rare exceptions) don't end in i,j, u or v. He mentioned it to his first grade teacher who was amazed. She commented after school to me one day that my son had said that and she hadn't ever thought of it. The problem is that many teachers never learned how to systematically spell words and don't know spelling rules. [/quote]

What you are doing is similar to Word Study, when done correctly.  As you noted, teachers are ignorant even of their own field.[/quote]

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