My DD7 just started 2nd grade.

Some of her spelling words include: homework, different, hundred, crawls, carrots....

10 are vocabulary words, they are still fairly easy. The other 6 come from their reader. So she sees them in a story, worksheets, and a mini book too.

I made flash cards (teacher introduces the words on Mondays, but gave us the list for the year). What else can I do to help her? I used to write my words over and over until I knew them. I am thinking of having her try this. I also always send a note in her lunch, so I try to use a few if I can. I underline them so she knows they are spelling words.

Any other ideas?

Sing-song them. Literally, outloud. Or make up funny rhymes..we did this with my ds last year when he had to memorize the spelling of all states and capitals!! We also will make up cheers...anything to make it fun..and make it stick.

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My oldest dd would only practice her spelling words if I let her write them in shaving cream on the table.

I am spoiled now, my 3rd and 2nd grader have never missed a spelling word, and we never even practice!!! (sorry, mommy brag, there!) I sure hope my 1st grader can do that too!

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I hate spelling words!! We practice them in the car. We're busy busy and it seems we don't have much time to just sit and home and go over the words so we use our time in the car to work on them.

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My kids have a hard time saying outloud how to spell a word, and since they don't have to do it that way for the spelling test, I just have them write them out. They usually write them 3 times each on the first day of getting the list at school and then at home, we just practice test.

My kids are naturally good spellers, so I think that probably helps, but they like to be tested. I keep a spiral notebook in the car and sometimes we'll just be driving along and they'll want to test themselves on their words.

We just do it as part of the homework routine. Do a practice test and then work on the words they got wrong by writing them a few times each and then sometimes they want to be tested again to see if they can get them right. LOL

Good luck!

I divide them into syllables for him. Make smaller words.

We used to write them on the sidewalk with sidewalk chalk.

DS has dsylexia so it is harder for him. We were told the best way for any child to learn them was to get a small (9X13) pan of sand and let him write the words in the sand. It triggers something in there brains that helps them remember the word.

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My dd has some pretty heavy-duty words for 2nd grade, and we have to do some silly thing for her to remember them.

I use the "Bingo" song quite a bit for 5-letter words. C-o-u-l-d, c-o-u-l-d, c-o-u-l-d, c-o-u-l-d spells could.

Sometimes we make up silly sentences for the long words. One of her spelling words is tomorrow. She remembers it by saying it in a question, like "Do you like Tom or Row?" It helps her to remember to put in the extra r. Another spelling word is whisper. Our silly sentence is "W his pe red?" I know it's gross talking about red pee, but it helps her remember to put the silent h in the word.

The teacher taught the kids to make a spelling pyramid. It goes like this:

c
co
cou
coul
could

I hope something I said helped. I feel your pain -- my dd is getting spelling words that I didn't have until 4th grade.

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