Spelling looks a little different around here 👀

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how strange my spelling instruction must look to some of my students’ parents. Because think about how most of us learned to spell. You got a list of 20 (probably random) words on Monday. You copied them a few times. Maybe you wrote each one in a sentence. Your mom quizzed you Thursday night. You took the test on Friday. And then Monday morning? Here came 20 brand-new words. 😂 So when I started the year telling my parents that their kids wouldn’t be...