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How To Make 100% on Every Spelling Test in just 15 minutes a day.
Children have used this technique of studying spelling words for over 50 years. I first learned about this from a fifth grade teacher in Minnesota. She had used this method with her students to prepare them for the State Spelling Bee Contest. She said, twelve years in a row her students were the champions of the State Spelling Bee Contest. That convinced me to try it. Since that time, I have taught this technique to many parents and their children. Later I heard reports about their success. Some children, who had never made a hundred on their spelling tests, started making a hundred every week.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Children can Print or do cursive writing when they Study their Spelling Words 15 Minutes per Day. To help your Children learn spelling words, use a RED or GREEN Felt Marker and Large Size, 11” x 14” Blue Bar Computer Paper. Use a Black felt marker to draw lines across the paper that are 2 ½ inches apart. Three Blue Bars Equal 2 ½ inches. After these lines are drawn on the Blue Bar Computer Paper, have your Children study and practice Writing their Spelling words in Bright RED or Bright GREEN felt marker so the letters are BIG, at least two Inches Tall. It’s Important that you Insist Your Children use Bright Red or Bright GREEN Felt Markers to practice writing their spelling words. I want to stress the importance of writing with color felt markers, not with color pencils.
Children Must use RED or GREEN felt Markers, Blue or Black felt markers will NOT work as well. Make sure the Children write Large so the letters are at least 2 inches high. Cursive or Printing is OK, it does not matter. . This method of Studying and Writing Spelling Words, using Bright RED or Bright GREEN felt Markers and with LARGE "2 inch" LETTERS, will Teach Both Sides of your Childs Brain. . Using LARGE Size Letters in Colors will also help to imprint the word in the Brain, so Children will remember the words Better and Longer. . It may also help more if Your Child will VERBALIZE each Letter as {he/she} is writing each word.
Writing your spelling words in Color is a Right Brain Function. Language skills like Reading or Spelling are Left Brain functions. Therefore, it really makes sense, when Children use this technique to study spelling words, that both sides of their Brain are learning the spelling words. Therefore, these children learn spelling words quicker and retain spelling words longer.
To do all this when studying spelling words may seem unnecessary, but I’ve seen it work for a lot of children. Therefore, I believe it is worth trying, to see if it can make a difference for your child.
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