Teach your students how to spell the words!

 The Research Basis

1. Spelling words should be high-frequency writing words that are well-established in student's reading, speaking, and listening vocabularies.
2. The most important factor in learning to spell words occurs when students correct their own spelling tests, with the teacher's help.
3. Present the words for spelling in a list at first, later in the context of a phrase or sentence.
4. Students must spend 60-75 minutes per week for the study of spelling.
5. Spelling becomes relevant only when the weekly spelling words are mastered and used regularly in daily writing.