Once students are explicitly
taught a spelling pattern, they should have the opportunity to play with the words in ways that will help them recognize it and other spelling patterns in other words.
Not exact matches
If you're
teaching about some of the
spelling patterns, be aware of the 44 different sounds.
The word study section focused on
teaching students letter - sound relationships and a sequence of word
patterns based on developmental
spelling theory (Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton, & Johnston, 2000; Henderson & Templeton, 1986; Invernizzi, Abouzeid, & Gill, 1994).
This often means
teaching the skills of decoding new words by sounding them out, and combining or «blending» the sound -
spelling patterns.
Teaching students to look for
spelling patterns they can recognize and apply is a strategy that we
teach from the moment students enter kindergarten and start learning the alphabet and letter / sound correspondence.
There was no evidence to show whole language worked and lots of evidence that
teaching children the relationship among sounds, letters and
spelling patterns improves reading achievement.
Spelling patterns taught compliment learned decoding skills in reading.