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Well, now I'm depressed. Here's DD9's 3rd grade list for the week, and bear in mind that she's in the top spelling group:
away, before, again, because, ago, between, around, begin, believe, about, alive, become, beyond, ahead, beside, across, below, asleep, afraid, began, behind, above, along
They can be tested on any 10 of the above words. I think we're looking at a case of quantity = quality in the school's eyes.
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My biggest issue with spelling is that if they can get 100% on a pretest on Monday, then no matter how hard the words are they aren't learning anything new. This irks me, but I guess math and reading are bigger priorities for us...
Warning: sleep deprived
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I've been wondering what kinds of words other kids have because I've not been impressed with DS9s words this year.
The 5th grade words for this week are: subtract, distract, contract, complex, distrust, extra, improve, instead, Congress, English, conflict, exchange, pumpkin, sandwich, Christmas, construction, luncheon, complaint, transform, and although.
I'm certain he had 'pumpkin' and 'sandwich' back in 1st grade... Maybe I have unrealistic expectations or something.
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I've decided to start saving the spelling lists for the rest of the year to check on repeats. I hate to check up on the teachers but I've heard there may be problems with the 3rd grade teacher and differentiation... We are on spring break now, but should get a new list Monday...
Warning: sleep deprived
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our school (private gifted) changed it's spelling program this year. they realized that many of the kids had a nearly photographic memory for spelling word.... It's neat to read this. We've noticed this attribute in our DD5, who's accelerated two years in spelling. She remembers words she learned months ago, can ace a tests after studying for ten minutes in the car,and is now complaining that second grade spelling is now too easy. It's very, very cool that you found a school that recognizes this fact! Val
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Grade 3 list of the week: partner, hard, chart, farm, start, large, more, before, horse, north, morning, care, stare, warning. DD8's September in-school testing showed she was spelling at a Grade 6 level so we asked for harder words--her teacher said it "wouldn't be fair to the other children." Still trying to wrap my head around that one. A gifted IEP meeting with the principal, gifted teacher, and class teacher didn't produce any change, so...school-shopping again!
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her teacher said it "wouldn't be fair to the other children." Uggh!  Good luck with the school shopping.
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DD8's September in-school testing showed she was spelling at a Grade 6 level so we asked for harder words--her teacher said it "wouldn't be fair to the other children." I totally don't get that - what 8 year old would complain about another kid having harder spelling words ?? Good luck in your school search. Hearing other peoples stories makes me realise how lucky we've been - so far 
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so we asked for harder words--her teacher said it "wouldn't be fair to the other children."  you could try advocating for some bonus words every week. Everyone has the option to learn them or not, so it would be "fair" Some of our recent grade 3 2 words: graph laugh cough telephone photograph recruit pursuit rough
Last edited by Floridama; 04/01/10 05:11 AM. Reason: Oops........I meant grade 2 words
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Okay, I could cry now. DS9 is in 3rd grade and his spelling words for the last 2 weeks were : face, door, cut, done, group, red, true, half, fish, plants. No wonder he's spinning his wheels, and this is in a "gifted" cluster class!
We haven't done much about it because DS is such a good speller, but maybe by not asking for harder lists or bonus words (great idea btw), we are actually holding him back from learing more. Hmmmm. Seeing all the other's spelling words is eye opening.
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