Lyn at Sleepless Juggler had a post recently in which she provided some spellings by first graders and had her readers try to guess the words. This morning I had six “struggling” third grade writers in my room to take a state-mandated writing prompt. I copied some spellings from their papers. Can you guess the words?
Sphere: Related Contentcasale
hole tell
menchen
eney
difread
woiet dicey
defent
aleanes
February 6th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Castle, Hotel, Mansion or mention, Any…and after that it gets kinda scary.
TMS: Well, you got the first three right! The others aren’t too scary except for WOIET DICEY. Does it help that the child had “world” after those two words?
February 6th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
casale - Castle
hole tell - Hotel
menchen - Mansion
eney - Any
difread - different (maybe)
woiet dicey - Oddisey (maybe)
defent - Defend
aleanes - Aliens
TMS: You only missed two! Your guesses for woiet dicey and defent were incorrect.
February 6th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
castle, hotel, mention, any. I agree with utenzi above — the last three are scary. I guess: different, defeat, and aliens. I can’t even begin to guess on the two-word one.
Okay - you got 5 out of seven. Here are the other two:
menchen = mansion
woiet dicey - Walt Disney
February 6th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
The Walt Disney and mansion ones I missed, the rest I got!
Fun!
February 6th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
I missed Walt Disney. But, I tell you what, it’s a good “context clue” lesson for us teachers. These words are much easier to figure out in context, huh?
TMS: The writing prompt was for them to write about a place they’d like to visit. The Walt Disney child was talking about Florida - staying in a hotel and Walt Disney World.
February 6th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
I can’t resist these! I am writing this offline… my best guesses - the sixth is a bit of a stretch but I’ve seen stranger.
casale - castle
hole tell - hotel
menchen - mention
eney - any
difread - different
woiet dicey - Washington, DC
defent - different (again)
aleanes - aliens
Walt Disney, of course! Shoot.
TMS: They ARE hard to resist, aren’t they?