Reply to What evil troll came up with WORD STUDY as a way to learn spelling words?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "What evil troll came up with WORD STUDY as a way to learn spelling words?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our children's school word study is the actual study of the way word sounds are made and put together. They would take a bunch of words with the same letter groupings and sort them by the different sounds. Or vice versa (like the long "a" sound week, they might study words that have "eigh" "ay" and "a-e"). There were no games without purpose. I'm sorry they have your child doing all that![/quote]

That is how my kid's word study works but they still have the inane activities.

OMG. Reading log too this year. [b]Way to kill any interest in reading[/b]. [/quote]

That's my objection to book reviews in the younger grades, too. [/quote]
Book reviews have nothing to do with word study. They deal with comprehension and writing. Yes they can be challenging, but in younger grades, I'm assuming that teachers know a child won't write a perfect book review. I'd rather see a book review given as an assignment than a challenge to read so many pages. Kids end up reading so much but most of it is read too quickly for them to really understand what they're reading. It's a waste.[/quote]

Whereas a book review is an incentive to the child to not finish the book, because when they finish the book, they have to do a book review.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics