About English - Spelling

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Spelling

What do we need to teach in order to help children develop into effective spellers?

Christine Topfer

Six spelling principles

Stages of spelling development

Word study activities -
• Activities for pre-communicative and semi-phonetic spellers
• Activities for semi-phonetic and phonetic spellers
• Activities for transitional and conventional spellers

Spelling strategies -
• Strategies for solving words
• Strategies for learning new words
• Phonetic strategies
• Visual strategies
• Morphemic strategies
• Reference to authority
• Connection strategies
• Memory joggers/gimmicks/mnemonics #9; #9;

Monitoring spelling -
• Spelling analysis
• Developmental spelling test

Implementing spelling -
• Word walls
• Spelling journals and individual spelling lists
• Through literature
• Proofreading

References

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