So, I'm reading in the Sun newspaper the word of the day for the Canwest Canspell spelling bee they have across Canada. The word today is "resile", means to draw back, spring back, retract, recede. On google.ca it gets 127,000 hits. This is an obscure word.
Here's an idea, use short words that are more common. To add a challenge, ask the spellers what the word means. There are words like cog, cub, wag, coy, gel, gig, abet, acid, clog, craw that all get well over 1 million hits on google.
Why students memorize essentially useless words for these spelling bees seems like a waste to me.
Here's an idea, use short words that are more common. To add a challenge, ask the spellers what the word means. There are words like cog, cub, wag, coy, gel, gig, abet, acid, clog, craw that all get well over 1 million hits on google.
Why students memorize essentially useless words for these spelling bees seems like a waste to me.