I do agree that he doesn't need the spelling. In fact, before he even sees the spelling words I say them outloud to see if he can spell them verbally. He so far has only missed 2 out of 50...so he knows them all before he even sees them. I guess my only concern at this point as the school has done a lot for differentiation and I am afraid they would say at this point he has to do spelling and if he doesn't do his own words, he does the classroom words. And that would not be good. So I guess I will try and push through and maybe bring it up at our next conference in a couple months. The one good thing is since he doesn't know how to use some of the words in a sentence, he has to look them up and figure out a sentence for him. I have to admit that part can be a challenge for him at least (and would be for me as well). It is particularly a challenge for him because his goal is writing the shortest sentence possible, LOL.
