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This is a fun way to practice and master our alphabetizing skills during centers. The students use the ABC worksheet and Saxon alphabet strip (both pictured below) to alphabetize the weekly Saxon spelling words.

For this center, the students look at each letter on the alphabet strip beginning with "A" to see if there is a word on the spelling list that begins with that letter. The students then move on to the next letter in the alphabet, and so on until all 20 words are used. This is a great beginning strategy for the students to use when alphabetizing. 

As the students work on this center with each week's Saxon vocabulary, the need for the alphabet strip becomes less and less, and the students are able to show mastery of this skill. I really like that they work on this in small groups and share their thinking with each other, rather than just copying what is modeled by me in a whole group lesson.