If you use copywork for your spelling...how does that work?

[thundersweet]

Is there a program you use? We use SWR. My 7yo dd always gets the tests right but when writing stories, she frequently spells words wrong. I know that's normal. Just curious about copywork and spelling. Would love to simplify our day.

Thanks,
Sandy

[Amber in AUS]

As far as i know, and as you can see from my sig i am new at this with oldest only being 4.5. The idea is that you choose a sentence/passage from a well written book that has interesting wording/grammar or both. Then you have them copy it down but not directly, letter for letter. The idea is that they study each word by taking a mind picture of it so they can visualise the way it is spelt when they close their eyes. They study the word then you cover and they copy down, you are watching to check for mistakes because any mistake should be removed immediately so as not to create the wrong mental picture of the word. Am i making sense?

Anyway once you are doing copywork well like that and they are old enough you would move to dictation. Child is given the passage to study, check up on meaning of new words, take a visual pic of new word spellings. Then after the preparation you wold dictate the passage for the child to write down.

Someone with more experience can enlighten you more i am sure.

[Peela]

There is a program called Spelling Wisdom which covers i think 600, or 6000 spelling words. It can be used for dictation or copywork- it is basically just passages from various classics- but someone else has done the work for you.

[keptwoman]

Thanks for that suggestion Peela. That looks fabulous.