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this test and recording the results several times during the school year will give the teacher a sense of
how each student is progressing.
Spelling Patterns
Working on conventional spelling patterns is also important to decoding and eventual fluency. Again,
there are a vast number of methods out there, but let’s look at a simple one that uses the student’s
prior knowledge.
Using three words that the student already knows, create a simple chart like this one:
Get Cat Cake
After creating the chart, you may introduce the idea that spelling uses patterns—this will depend on the
individual student. Have the student fill in the chart with other words that have the same rime, like this:
Get Cat Cake
set fat bake
bet hat make
Depending on the student’s penmanship ability, you could make word cards that they place in the chart.
For example:
