Works for Me Wednesday: Building Number Words

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If you have a kid who learns asynchronously, you know how frustrating it can be for them to hit those hurdles built by a mismatch of skills.  Even if you have a child who learns pretty evenly across the board, it can still be frustrating to have to remember so many new skills at once in order to complete tasks.

My kids were running into frustrations when their math book asked them to write number words.  I'm not talking about simple words like one or two, but big, long words like sixty-three thousand four hundred one.  That's a lot to remember and get written down while trying to remember how to spell everything and not leave out any numbers.

So, I decided to take some of the stress out of the assignment by creating a set of "buildable number word" cards.  I wrote the number words one through nineteen on individual cards, followed by twenty through ninety (by tens), hundred, thousand and a few dashes for connecting.

Now, they can build the number words.  Once they're satisfied with the way they've got the cards laid out, they can copy that onto their worksheets without the added stress of remembering how to spell everything and get everything in the right order and making their hands write the number words that they've got in their heads on the paper before they forget what they're doing. They've been using the cards for about two weeks and it's really working well for them.

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