3b Word Cards - Writing

For this section we get the Dictation Sheet out, and I dictate from the cards.

If the student gets stuck writing the word, we go back to the sounds.

I'm still choosing the same words we worked on earlier in this lesson. I want him to master the small selection of words we are working with - sad, mad, fad, sat, fat, mat.

In general, we don't want to ask a student to spell something we haven't asked them to read earlier in the lesson. As they become more proficient with the spelling patterns, this rule loosens up. But at this level, we want to set up the student for success.