This worksheet was done by my mentor Ms. Dahline when she was teaching the kids about monkeys. She drew a picture and then wrote two sentences. As you can see, not everything is spelled right and I was surprised to see that that is how she was teaching the kids. That was the example that the kids had to follow. When I asked her why she wasn't spelling the words correctly, she said that at this age they should mostly have to worry about sounding out the words instead of spelling. She said that sounding them out was more important so that's what she focuses on. I thought that was very interesting and it's actually a bit of a challenge. I'm not allowed to tell the kids how to spell a word, I'm just suppose to sound it out for them. For example, if they asked me how to spell "they" I would sound it out and they would say "t-h-a-y?" And I would just say "yea sure".
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