I have been repeatedly told that word study is the “Solon Way” and that it is the only methodology they will use. Towards that end, I met with every one of their teachers from 2nd to 6th grade about considering other ways beyond the word study program. The link is provided at the end of my post so anyone can click on it and see what she said for themselves.Kids that struggle with spelling will get better at it if we teach them. I don't know the children in the news report but fifth graders who are functioning on grade level would not need the type of -ing instruction shown in the report.As for Romona Robinson's comment, I quoted what she said directly from the news report. This clearly was not one of the lessons referred to or shown in the news report. The only weekly unit that I can think of where fifth graders might be using -ing would be in the larger context of suffixes including -er, -est, -ed, -ing, and -s showing how multiple inflextional endings change the grammatical form of the word indicating 1) comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs and 2) tense and number of verbs. It's part of a second or third grade curriculum and should have been taught long before fifth grade. Thank you for your comment, but I'm sorry, adding -ing to a base word is not a fifth grade level skill.
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