Thursday, I was working with a parent who was having difficulty
helping her child with spelling. The problem was the child needed
extra practice with his weekly spelling words. Initially, spelling
involves learning the alphabet and associating letters of the
alphabet with words. Spelling at this age usually involves matching
the initial sounds of words to specific letters. Her child
understood the concept and could do the matching, but needed a lot
of practice and creating printed worksheets was extremely
time-consuming and the resulting worksheets were not especially
appealing to the child. Instead of the printed worksheets, the
parent used
FlinkMake to create an interactive worksheet on
the computer. It took only minutes because all the graphics were
built in.
The interactive worksheet was much more fun and engaging than the
printed worksheets, with an appealing character. The child saw a
number of objects and had to select all those that began with the
letter specified in the instructions. He could select a picture and
hear the word spoken. The parent could make tens of problems in
minutes, providing the child with all the problems he needed for
that letter.
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Spelling Activities.