Since we are more than halfway through our school year, we are starting a new writing component with our spelling tests. We have focused a lot of time on capitalization and punctuation, and now students will be responsible for doing this on the test. Each week, I will dictate a sentence for students to write on their test. They are responsible for 5 parts of the sentence:
1 point- Capitalization (first letter in each sentence)
1 point- Spelling the spelling word only correct (they can miss other words in the sentence, but not their spelling word)
1 point- Punctuation (it must be correct punctuation)
1- All words are in the sentence (they cannot leave out any words that I say to them)
1- Spacing (spaces between all of their words)
Example:
I said, "I want to wear a blue dress."
Student wrote, "i to wear a blu dress." Their score would be a 3/5 for writing. The did not capitalize the first word and left out a word in the sentence. You may notice that the word "blue" is spelling incorrectly. They are not counted off for this because their spelled the spelling word correct--they are allowed to miss other words in the sentence (this gives them practice sounding out words).
Our goal is to create better writers! Your child will have a chance to practice this new skill each week if they chose to write their spelling words in a sentence or write a letter to someone. :)
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