Word Work

Today in class we split up into groups to do word work. The words we had were long adjectives that students had to learn how to read and spell. In my group of five I was told to hold up a different word to each person in the group and they had to read it. Once every student knew how to read each word, they got white boards and had to spell the word. I said a word and each student spelled it on the white board and showed me. It was loud and reckless because each student wanted to race each other to see who could spell it first and missed parts of the word because of it. It was a great experience to work with each of the students even though the group got loud towards the end. I would probably do it differently by having each kid write a different word and stop them from copying and racing.