First Grade Fresh. Word Wizard book {printable} Aaaaa! I have missed talking to you all so much!! Like many others, I have been crazy busy with our first week of school. It has been the best--I just love my class!!! But now it is my favorite part of the week...prepping for next week! And right now, the focus is on a new way to manage spelling for this year... Sooo...last winter I started using a new spelling and vocabulary system called Word Detectives (you can read more about it by clicking the green link). It was a great hit with my ELL students and they would ask about it often. Now that we are in a new year and not getting a new spelling series we were expecting (yay, freedom!) In previous years, I have given a pre-test to assess my students' spelling levels, then made two or three different spelling groups using the Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary series (I really do love those books).
It was this weekend I realized I could achieve this, if I used a similar format to Word Detectives! And...stay tuned! Word Wizard Book. Language Arts Resources. Westwardexpansion_Final_Feb1006.