my daughter cheated at school

Are you trying different ways of practicing? Some kids have different learning styles so you might need to be creative. Along with writing the words, try making a list of her spelling words with 1 or 2 letters missing and let her figure out what the missing letters are. Then do it again but with different letters missing. That's the only thing that comes to mind right now but I hope it helps.

I would talk to my daughter about the cheating, but I would also call the teacher. I would explain to her that she is really having trouble. Maybe she would have some ideas of how to help her.

My daughter that is 5 was also having a hard time with spelling so I turned our studying into a game. I got her a dry erase board and and asked her to spell the word. she will write it on the dry erase board and if she spelled it correctly I let her give me a word to spell. I found that if I turned our studying into something fun and gave her alot of praise when she got it right, we both had less frustration.

Hello pop, My daughter has been struggling with the spelling lists since coming back from Christmas vacation. Just this last week she got a 100%, we were very excited and praised her. We had also been trying to be very encouraging in the previous weeks and telling her that we were very proud of her and had been rewarding her for trying her best. I think that the cheating since was caught, should not really be dwelled upon tell her that it was wrong and leave it at that. Explain to her that as when she was learning to walk she fell down aa lot nd got back up and eventually she didn't fall down any more. Spelling is the same thing we make mistakes and with practice we learn how to spell correctly. All new things take time to learn. Praise is the best. A reward system may be a way to get her to be more motivated. It has worked with my daughter. As someone else stated all kids learn differently and everyone is motivated differently also. Find what works with your child and start implementing them. Good luck and I know it's difficult but try not to show her your frustration.

Be patient. It is not easy being in grade one. It sounds like your daughter is trying hard and she wants to be perfect. You should try and encourage her to just try and do her best and you would be proud of her no matter the outcome. She probably will not cheat again. The teacher should have just taken her book away and let her continue.My my she is only in the first grade. Happy lotting.

I would talk to her teacher, guidance counselor and tutoring department for the school. Try to find out what the actual issue is that is causing to have such difficulty. I would talk to her teacher first and see if she can the test again after I explained the issue i was having with her remembering words. My child is pretty good in most of her classes but reading gets her. I didn't understand at first. WE in a sense started the reward system. Every time she scored a a certain grade she received an item. When a child has difficulty they have to take steps to help but sometimes they have to show a of getting worse than better in school officials eyes to show proof of a pattern. Quite frustrating. Mine was a hit or miss child, lol. Sometimes she scored perfect grade of 100 or 0 in reading. They put her in smaller reading groups everyday. Its helping but not perfect. The frustration is hard when you show it. Try using the schools resources (if they have not been cut) and work from there. Ask for help from them and keep moving up the ladder. Now mine gets 100's on spelling test and sometime blows the reading test, the funny part most of the words were one spelling tests. So, I can relate to your frustration. Its working for us. I hope it can work for you.

My son is in the second grade and he has a hard time with the words that have the silent "e" or other silent letters yet. I think first thing I would do is talk with your daughter about cheating. Ask her why she was looking at the book during the test, and try to be understanding. Also as rob said talk with her teacher and see if she has any ideas? I would bet it is that she wants you and her teacher to be proud of her and wanted to get a good grade. What I do with my son and it has worked so far is we practice the words where I read the word and he spells it. I then put a check by any that he misses. We have a notebook and I will then read to him the words he missed (usually it's 2 or 3 of them and have him right in a column. Then he rights each word again 3 times. The next day when he comes home we again study the words, if he misses any we repeat the process and almost always by the end of the week when he has his spelling test he's got the words right. Another thing you can try is the alphabet magnets that you can stick on the refrigerator using those with spalladino's suggestion or you can do this on paper too. Maybe you write the word 3 times make 2 of them spelled wrong and see if she can spot the correct one. Ah one lest thing. If her school has a website, usually they have helpful links with activity suggestions you can do at home to help her learn. Here's a good link I just found I am going to try this with my son it's called spelling Bingo. http://www.instructorweb.com/linkgo.asp?L=308&B=resources/spelling.asp Good luck to you both.

Have you tried takin it up with the school. And maybe tryin to see if there may be a learning problem with letters and spelling or something. I dont mean any dis-respect my son has problems with everything and i had to get him into a totally different school and things to get him the xtra help that he needed. And hes still having major problems with pretty much everything but hes getting more help then he was before and i can see that there is a difference but hes still having problems. Maybe check with your little ones doctor. My son with the trouble is in 1st grade also. I dont mean any dis-respect in anyway. I know how frusterating it can be and is and its very aggervating for the parent and the child. I took mine issues to the teachers at his old school and then to my sons Dr. And my son doesnt remember anything after 5-8 minutes he still doesnt know all his letters and sounds or even his numbers for that matter. I love my son and i wouldnt trade him for nothing. But we did find out he does have ADD which is what is causing his learning issues and they are looking into a learning disability. I hope this helps