Colebrook Consolidated School

Spelling in Sixth Grade

Dear Parents,

Your child's spelling program may be different from what you've come to expect as "spelling."  Instead of weekly lists of words to memorize, this program emphasizes the learning of important words, not for a Friday test, but for a lifetime of spelling in the real world -- that is, spelling correctly in writing. 

This lifelong spelling ability grows over time.  It grows through skills instruction (phonics, word origins, spelling rules, usage, etc.), through your child's everyday writing, and through word study on specific words your child has not yet mastered. 

To help you child learn and use essential skills:

Take-Home Tasks will be sent home regularly.  They are skill-building activity sheets for you and your child to do together.  These tasks will compliment the skills we're working on at school.

Skill-Building Ecercises are homework activities for you and your child to do to prepare for or follow up on our class lessons.

Papers for Proofreading will come home often.  Your child will be expected to spell some words correctly all the time to meet the minimum requirement for spelling in everyday writing.  These words are called Priority Words.  They are words that occur most frequently in writing.  As your child proofreads for these words, s/he will practice the skills for proofreading any word.

 

Level Six Priority Words

a                   go                not                time
about            good              now              to
after             had               of                too
all                 has               on                 two
also               have              one               up
an                 he                 only              use
and               her                or                very
another         him                other            was
any               his                our                water                                                                               
are               how               out               way
around          I                   over             we
as                 if                  part             were
at                 in                  people          what
back             into               right            when
be                 is                  said             where
because         it                  same            which
been              its                see               who
but               just               she               will
by                know              so                with
called            like               some            words
came             little             than             work
can                long              that             would
come             look               the              write
could             made             their            you
day               make             theirs           your
did               man                them            you're
do                 many             then
does              may               there
down             me                 there's
each              more             these
even              most              they
find              much              they're
first             must              think
for                my                this
from             new               three
get                no                 through
 

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