The first time I heard teachers aren't allowed to give spelling tests anymore I thought to myself, "Well how do children learn to spell?" I feel that back in elementary school, spelling tests every Friday is the reason I was able to read and write. When I'm in my interning class, I see so many of the students struggling to spell words right as they're writing. It was hard for me to tell them good job, when they spelled "because" as "bcus." Although, because is a pretty difficult word to spell in first grade, I just felt wrong giving them the assertion that "because" is spelled as "bcus." When do you tell them that it is wrong?
In this chapter, we learned all there is to now about spelling inventories. Teachers aren't allowed to give spelling tests, but they are suppose to be giving spelling inventories. The difference is that tests gives the students time to study the words and be tested on them afterwards; inventories have the students initially spell the words and teachers analyze spelling patterns to determine instruction. I haven't seen this in my classroom, that might be why they struggle with writing.
In this chapter, we learned all there is to now about spelling inventories. Teachers aren't allowed to give spelling tests, but they are suppose to be giving spelling inventories. The difference is that tests gives the students time to study the words and be tested on them afterwards; inventories have the students initially spell the words and teachers analyze spelling patterns to determine instruction. I haven't seen this in my classroom, that might be why they struggle with writing.