Writing Workshop for Parents

Write On! WORKSHOP

Tamara Chilver coaches parents on how to effectively teach writing skills for the elementary grades while instilling a love of writing. Parents will learn the importance of writing and the types of writing that should be taught for the elementary grades. Tamara also provides parents with dozens of effective writing tools. This mini-workshop is available in an E-document format and is sure to help parents incorporate FUN and creative writing techniques into their teaching. {CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD NOW}

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Super Spelling Ideas

Try these ideas to make spelling practice FUN!

• A FREE spelling program at www.SpellingCity.com contains over 28,000 spelling words, including plurals, contractions, future and past tenses. Spelling City provides spelling practice at home or school. Parents can enter and save their own spelling lists for their children, and students can play games with their words.
  
  
• Use pretzel sticks to form the letters in the words.
• Use letter stickers and stamps to spell the words.

• Write the phone number of a spelling word by writing the corresponding letters and numbers on a telephone. Be careful. There is not a "Q" or "Z" on a telephone. CLICK HERE for a printable for this activity.                                         
  
  
• Create a pyramid with the words.

For example:
C
CA
CAT
CATS

• Here are some FREE spelling lists. Parents, please do not get too concerned over spelling. Many studies have been done for over one hundred years, and there is good evidence that direct instruction in spelling has limited long-term spelling effects. The most likely candidate for building spelling competence is reading. For more information on this research, read the reading-spelling connection.
  
  Relax and have FUN with spelling!
  
  For additional creative spelling ideas, refer to Homeschooling with TLC in the Elementary Grades and Tutoring Your Elementary Child with TLC.

The best reading DVD I have found!

LeapFrog: Letter Factory is one of the best learning DVD's I have seen! My two pre-schoolers absolutely love learning the letter names and sounds in a creative way while watching this DVD. It is perfect for Pre-K to first grade. Viewers see the letters, hear the letter names, see a picture/video that represents the sound each letter makes, and hear catchy tunes to match the letter sound. 

This DVD will help beginning readers soar!