Fit Spelling
Spelling proficiency is a crucial skill that impacts overall academic performance and communication confidence. Many students face challenges in spelling due to gaps in understanding phonetic patterns, spelling rules, and sight word recognition. Traditional teaching methods often fall short in providing the personalized, fluency-based approach needed for true mastery.
Spelling Mastery
Fit Spelling offers a targeted, fluency-based program that ensures students achieve spelling proficiency through explicit instruction and practice. The program focuses on four main areas:
- Mastery of Phonetic Patterns: Combining clear instruction with fluency-building exercises to help students understand and apply the sounds of letters and combinations effortlessly.
- Understanding Spelling Rules: Teaching and reinforcing rules like prefixes, suffixes, vowel combinations, and spelling conventions through repeated practice to build automaticity.
- Sight Word Spelling: Enhancing recognition and memorization of common words that do not always follow standard phonetic rules through visual learning and repetition.
- Spelling in Context: Applying spelling skills within sentences and paragraphs to strengthen real-world writing and communication abilities.
This structured approach ensures students can apply their spelling knowledge effectively, leading to improved writing skills and overall academic success.
The Outcome
The combination of Fit Spelling’s curricular strategy with the general Fit Learning Method has produced powerful results for all learners since 1998. Students who enroll in Fit Spelling can expect to see an increase in Spelling Skills in just 40-hours.
The graph includes all learners from 2018 to the present who completed 40 hours of Fit Spelling. On average, learners gained 23 percentile points across of variety of spelling measures.
What our Learners are Saying
- Jenna Vara
My daughter has been with Fit Learning Denver for about a month now to work on her math skills. We have seen such an improvement in her skills and her... read more attitude and confidence towards math. The staff is all very professional. Highly recommend!
- Brenda Melgar
Grateful to the team for working with my 10 yr old son on a daily basis. His reading improved; I couldn't have done it myself!
- Gina
We have been working with Sarah at FIT Learning for about a year now and have seen a drastic improvement in our son’s reading and literacy fluency. He’s now has... read more a desire to pick up a book and read for enjoyment without feeling overwhelmed by all the words on the pages. His confidence as a reader has grown as well as his willingness to read pretty much everything he sees. We are very pleased with his progress and will continue to work with FIT Learning with the goal of getting his literacy skills up to grade level. We’re very grateful for the support our son receives from Sarah and the FIT Learning Team.
- Steph Johnson
We have been so impressed with Fit Learning. Sarah and her team have done an amazing job teaching our daughter. Her literacy skills are improving dramatically, but equally importantly, so... read more is her confidence!