Cai is working so hard with his spelling at the moment and is only happy with 20 out of 20 every week, being so far behind after missing 4 years of school it is a huge task...but wow he is already up to year 6 level just needs a little fine tuning so the spellings are important for 2 reasons, one is new vocabulary and the other the spelling.
Cai is like Rei in the regard that he works best when things are broken down...so we take his new words and using the LMA (large movable alphabet) he spells them out , looks at them and breaks them down. Then using strips of paper he writes the words and cuts the word into the parts that he broke down using the LMA. We start with about 7 spellings.
Cai mixes all the parts of the words and puts them back together, remembering the names of the words, after 3 or 4 times of this game Cai closes his eyes and I take one piece away so one word will not be complete and Cai will tell me whats missing. We continue taking parts away, usually I end up taking one part of each word. Finally Cai will begin writing out the missing parts on paper leading us finally into a mock spelling test like school with just paper and pencil.
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