Love That Teaching Idea! Staff Submitted: August 23, 2001 always
seem to be bombarded with questions such as, "Teacher! Teacher!
How do you spell, ________?" It seemed like so many times the
same words were being repeated over and over again. To
discourage this, I give out a "spelling journal" to each of my
students. At the top of each page, they write a letter of the
alphabet. So page 1 would be "A", page 2 would be "B" and so
forth. Now when a child asks me how to spell a word, they must
write it correctly in their journal on the corresponding page.
Before they ask me again in the future, they must look in the
spelling journal to see of the word is already there or not. By
the end of the year, their spelling journals have been a great
resource!