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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well if studying at home for the inevitable spelling test is a waste of time, I'd love to know how you otherwise go about doing well on it.[/quote]

Studying at school. [/quote]

not THAT is a total waste of class time.[/quote]

Actually, spelling lists themselves are a total waste of time. 
The supposed goal of spelling lists and spelling tests are to help kids learn to spell words correctly.  Many do quite well for the spelling test itself.  As a career teacher, I used to have kids do beautifully on their spelling tests only to continually misspell the words they supposedly “learned” during their writing.  What I learned about teaching spelling is that words kids needed to learn were words they used repeatedly in their writing.  So, students had different words they were learning.  And, how did they learn them?  By keeping these words in their hand made “dictionaries” and checking their own work.  This required work on my part, but my students were excellent spellers and by the end of the year, they were able to write more quickly and with less effort because their writing vocabulary had grown.  Word study is also beneficial to students - learning word patterns and such. [/quote]

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