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The New Year is fast approaching. Maybe one of your goals is to help your young children learn to spell or to improve their spelling.

With my kids, I used both the phonics and whole word approach. I laminated the different alphabets so they could put them together to make words. I thought them how to listen to the different sounds in a word. Of course I started out with very simple words like cat, bat, sun, hit, hot etc…. I also would use their guided reading books and dictate sentences from there. This was more fun for them because it was like writing a story. Sometimes I would create funny sentences for them to spell. I also would write new words like a flash card and stick them on the wall. I would have them read the words 2-3 times in a day. This are just some of the things I did to teach my children to spell.

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