Geez, my girls are so similar to Ianfan's I thought you were talking to me for a second!
You can make flashcards with the dolce sight words. Just google that and you can find lists. What is it, something like 85% of all reading material consists of these 100 words or so?
I'm sure I have my facts a little off there, but you get the point. Start with the easy ones like: I and is.....
I used to give the cards to C when she had them instant recall and she loved that. It was like: " I OWN this word now".
Both my girls could do simple math in their heads, way early. I used to ask them to picture m$m's.
I read on this forum, I'm pretty sure, a good way to teach them to recall spelling words they are having difficulty with is to have them close their eyes and tell them to try and *see* the word on a paper. And if they can spell it forward and backward, they know it. I told DD8 to do this on spelling tests if she's not sure she has the word spelled correctly. Finally getting a few hard vocab words each week, YAY!
Last edited by incogneato; 10/09/08 03:53 PM. Reason: punctuation is a good thing.
