Some of them were not even anticipated. During the first four weeks of this study Direct Instruction was used as the delivery model for spelling instruction. Davenport teachers using a patterned approach developed the spelling lists. Students took a pretest on Monday. As a class, students offered responses as to what they thought was the pattern for the week.
Some lists contain two or more patterns.
Following the pretest, students corrected their tests by writing the correct spelling next to any word which was misspelled. Students participated in a variety of independent activities on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday students took their final test. I observed that despite class review of the weekly pattern that the higher achieving students continued to do well and the lower achieving students continued to do poorly. During the next four weeks of this study Cooperative Learning was used as the delivery model.