Encouraging students' greatest development of Write Word (spelling word) mastery, individualized Write Words for focused learning are identified.
Write Word (spelling word) assessments are administered every 4 weeks and student progress is documented and monitored.
- Assessments administered are relevant to each student's demonstration of Write Word mastery. Word List assessments, administered to each individual student, incorporate the word list(s) identified as "mastered" from the student's previous assessment (to monitor continued accurate spelling of previously "known" words), the word list(s) identified as "instructional" from the student's previous assessment, and continued word list(s) as needed to identify words for learning.
- Write Word assessments are shared with parents. Parents are encouraged to utilize the assessments to identify words for focused learning and words for review at home that are individualized to the child's needs as a speller.
Referencing the most current Write Word assessment, the Butterfly Spellers create a "Write Word learning list". The students use their assessment to identify (with a highlighter) his/her individualized words for learning on his/her "Write Word learning list".
- Students alternate days utilizing the Spellosaur iPad app for individualized Write Word learning. On the days a student does not utilize the Spellosaur app, she/he chooses and records (with an "X" in a proceeding box) 5 highlighted words from his/her "Write Word learning list" and makes a "Write Word Learning Choice" (ex: Write-Stamp-Write) for the five individualized words of focus.
After creating their individual "Write Word learning list", 10 words are identified (by the teacher) for focus in Spellosaur (the "S" in the box before each of the 10 words on the student's word list is circled with a colored marker and the date is recorded at the bottom of the paper), and the student creates a "new" word list in Spellosaur with the 10 indicated Spellosaur words on his/her word list.
- As a student demonstrates "mastery" of the 10 words within the Spellosaur app, 10 new words from his/her individualized Write Word learning list are identified (by the teacher) for focus in the Spellosaur app (the "S" in the box before each of the 10 words on the student's word list is circled with a different colored marker and the date is recorded at the bottom of the paper with the corresponding marker color), and the student creates a "new" word list in the Spellosaur app with the 10 new Spellosaur words indicated on his/her word list.
The frequency of "new" word lists created in Spellosaur is dependent on each student as an individual speller.
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a First Grade Butterfly Speller references his Write Word (spelling word) assessment
to identify (with highlighter) his individualized words for focused learning on his "Write Word learning list" |
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Butterfly Spellers reference their individualized "Write Word learning lists"
to identify the 10 Spellosaur Words for focus
(identified on the list with the "S" in the box to the left of the word)
and create a "new" list of ten focus words
in their individualized Spellosaur app on the student iPads |
