While reading this chapter I was very interested in learning about different comprehension strategies that I could use in my field placement classroom and next year in my internship classroom. Although the example in the book was of a middle school class, I could see how I could adapt those strategies to fit a lower elementary class.
In my field placement class, which is a second grade classroom, there seems to be a lot of focus on comprehension more so than spelling. It seems backwards to put an emphasis on comprehension and not spelling when the two seem to go hand in hand. To me, it seems that in order to understand a word, you would associate the word with it's spelling. Personally, when I learn a word I hear the word and then picture the spelling in my head in order to better remember it. Also, when students are given spelling tests in my field placement they are expected to understand the word in context and be able to spell it correctly.
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