Re: Spectrum Spelling, Grade 2 Book 11
Matt Dreher
Help children spell their way to success! Strong spelling is the blueprint children need to become masters of communication. Spectrum Spelling for grade 1 engages learners with fun, full-color puzzles and riddles to keep them entertained while they build an essential skill that lasts a lifetime.
Give your first grader a fun-filled way to build and reinforce spelling skills. Spectrum Spelling for grade 1 provides progressive lessons in letter recognition, short vowels, long vowels, sight words, and dictionary skills. This exciting language arts workbook encourages children to explore spelling with brainteasers, puzzles, and more!
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Spectrum Spelling is a phonetically-based spelling program for kindergarten through sixth grade that should require less teaching time for the daily lessons than some other programs. These workbooks are titled by grade level and are attractively printed in full color.
Very clear instructions for what to do appear on the student's pages. However, there are no specifications at all for giving spelling tests. You will probably want to administer a spelling test at the end of each week, but you might wait until at least second grade to begin spelling tests.
The difficulty increases with each workbook. In Grade 1, the first 56 pages focus on individual letters of the alphabet and their sounds. Students begin to write three-letter words on page 57. The activities in the first third of Grade 1 are like those in a phonics workbook rather than spelling. On page 75 of Grade 1, students are supposed to begin writing a sentence using some of their spelling words. This represents a rapid shift from writing individual letters at the beginning of the workbook to writing complete sentences, so children might need to dictate what they want to say. You might skip over some of the beginning lessons of Grade 1 with a first grader who is ready to write words, or you might start a kindergartner in this workbook, and only go as far as is appropriate, saving the rest for the next year.
Give your fifth grader a fun-filled way to build and reinforce spelling skills. Spectrum Spelling for grade 5 provides progressive lessons in prefixes, suffixes, vowel combinations, variant consonants, rhyming words, and irregular plural nouns. This exciting language arts workbook encourages children to explore spelling with brainteasers, puzzles, and more!
This series links spelling to reading and writing, and increases skills in words and meanings, consonant and vowel spelling, and proofreading. Riddles, brainteasers, and puzzles make spelling fun. Each book contains more than 200 full-colour pages, including a speller dictionary, and an answer key.
Spectrum's grade-specific workbooks can help reinforce and enhance your student's core educational curriculum. Spectrum Spelling Grade 3provides focused practice on short and long vowels, homophones, commonly used words, and compound words. Thirty lessons are provided, with a review after every 3-5 lessons.
4th grade writing books are a great way for students to learn basic writing skills such as writing stories, letters, opinions, and more through a variety of creative writing prompts and writing practice that are both fun AND educational!
Young people with learning disabilities enjoy a wide spectrum of talents and capabilities because in most situations this "invisible" disability is not obvious to other people, it is difficult for some people to understand why these bright children struggle with tasks or thought processes that come easily to their peers. They get labels like lazy, non-compliant, defiant, impertinent, and stubborn. Some conclude, "If these kids would just sit still, listen to their teachers and parents, pay attention, follow rules and control themselves like everyone else, all would be fine." With this thinking, adults conclude that children with learning disabilities just need to try harder and, when they seem not to, they need to be punished. But, punishments that focus on changing or eliminating behaviors over which the child has no control, along with criticism and reprimands, just add to the layers of frustration and failure that young people with learning disabilities experience on a daily basis.
My name is Jessie, and I am no stranger to these experiences. Although I have had a lot of success with physical activities throughout my life, such as track and ballet, I first became aware of my learning disability in the second grade when everyone in my class was reading and I wasn't. My mom approached the teacher, who minimized the problem saying I was just a 'late bloomer,' and this was true my entire life. Even in third grade I still couldn't read. They kept telling my mom "don't worry, don't worry." I struggled in every grade as I progressed through school.
When I was in the fourth grade, I was in a first grade reading level and that was very hard. And my writing skills were just non-existent. It was impossible for me to keep up with my peers in reading and writing tasks and my difficulties affected my performance in other subjects as well. Science reading is really dense, and I get completely and totally lost in it. Even in math classes I do dyslexic-like errors such as dropping negative signs. It gets me all mixed up. There's no area in which I am free of it. It's a part of me.
I managed to get to high school and college and experience success. I was determined to be "academically independent." With support from my mother and a perceptive tutor, I figured out how to tap into my own resourcefulness to reach my own self-defined goals. Ever since I was in third grade, whatever the teachers and other students were doing, I didn't get it. I had to think of something else. I got really frustrated because I couldn't get it the way they were doing it. I was always behind. So my mom would help me by finding different ways to do the work. Now that I'm in high school, I'm finding my own way, developing my own methods. I learned how to study. For example, I would create whole tests of the subject material and just quiz myself, and quiz myself, and quiz myself. And, you know, it works. I've gotten A's from doing this.
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