Spelling

I don't know if anybody remembers this.

Anybody remember the Spelling Bee episode of Hey Arnold? This is the word Helga Pataki, onomatopoeia.

She spells it in the competition.

Anybody remember that? And then she purposefully tanks the competition with the word qualm.

How – I don't know.

Wait a minute.

He went to the National Spelling Bee.

Yeah.

Focused letter formation and speed can help.

Spelling instruction, of course, we want to have spelling instruction as part of our literacy block.

In upper elementary, that could look like things like word parts.

And of course, not just memorizing lists, but giving systematic word study instruction to our students in upper elementary is going to significantly help our students who have struggles in this transcription skill.

focus too hard and my i mean letters get big and i get major headaches is the biggest problem like if i try reading very long 15 minutes i'll have a headache so bad i can hardly stand up

oh wow i don't get that but i'm pretty sure i'm dyslexic when it comes to spelling a word because if i look at a word i can i read it just fine but then when i go to spell it and i sit there and try to read it i'm like oh that looks wrong and then 90 of the time it's right but Spelling is definitely my Achilles heel.

I think the biggest thing is the dyslexia.

If I look at it very long, it starts making

You got to watch your pronunciation.

Spelling's the same, but there's a huge difference between a pasty and a pasty.

Right.

They put pasties on the pasties sometimes.

Now, if Dr. Cofer was here, I believe her answer would be, far be it for me to put words in her mouth, but I will just say what we know is factual, that this year is the first year that the Fresno County Office of Ed has put together a cohort of LETRS training.

LETRS stands for Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling.

It is one of the, it's kind of like the gold standard in training for science of reading.

Fresno County just started this year and Darius I've spoken at many forums and debates and over 300 meetings and I have said at probably every one of them I have asked why is the Fresno County not doing that because Counties all over California are way ahead of us.

Yeah, uh, me and him are varying abilities in, in different games, so we decided to kind of do a bunch of random friend slop type shit.

Uh, we're gonna be playing each other best of seven, first of four in Goofy Gorillas, Spy Party, Straf Tat, Modern Warfare 2, the new one, Roblox Spelling Bee, Fortnite Guess Who, Gang Beasts, and, uh, TrackMania.

Sorry, I have a list here that I'm reading.

Uh, I don't know what we're doing, like, best of wise.

I'm assuming Straf Tat will be probably, like, best of three series.

Modern Warfare 2 is probably gonna be, like, first to, like, 20 kills or something.

Roblox Spelling Bee, probably a certain amount of wins.

We'll hash that out when we hop on call with him.

And also if you see that I've made a mistake, please let me know because I've-

Spelling's the easiest one

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I want it to say spooktacular, not spooktacular.

We're, we're gonna do it." [laughs]

Through, like, We Like Spelling.

We like caps on boxes.

That's right.