Tag: spelling activities

I remember my first year teaching in the classroom like it was yesterday. My class would be in the middle of a writing project, and I’d be trying to help one student. Three others would come up to my desk: “How do you spell ‘beautiful’?” “What about ‘water’?” “Mrs. Strain, is it ‘f-r-e-i-n-d’ or ‘f-r-i-e-n-d’?”…