4th Grade Spelling Menu

4th Grade Spelling Policy

• Students will not be given a spelling pre-test, in order to provide each student additional instructional time to work authentically with words.

• Students will receive a bi-weekly spelling test grade based on the correct spelling of their words. Students will take an editing test when there is not a spelling test.

• When the challenge words are given, each word spelled correctly on the challenge list will be counted as an additional point to be added to the spelling test grade.

• A student’s average writing score at the end of the nine weeks cannot be more than 100.

**Additional spelling information can be found on the Curriculum & Instruction portion of the FISD website.

Spelling Homework

• Spelling Homework will be checked on Fridays.  

• Your child will use the Spelling Homework Menu located below, in addition a copy of the Spelling Homework Menu will be sent home with each student. Students will use this menu to choose spelling activities each week.  

• Activities may be repeated from week to week.  

• Your child will need to do enough activities to earn 12 points.

Spelling Test Redos

If your child scores below a 70% on their spelling test, they have the opportunity to get up to a 70% on it. They will write each missed word 5 times on a separate paper.