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.
Teachers should focus on
teaching spelling rules that apply to a large number of words, and that have very few exceptions to the rule.
Many people have questioned the importance of
teaching spelling in an age when our computers and our phones often have spelling checkers and suggested words always available.
The «whole language» method, it explains, involves being introduced to language through context, such as through stories and picture books, and the «phonics» method
teaches spelling patterns that correspond to sounds.
The great value of Freeborn's book is that it illustrates its analysis with a wide variety of pre -(and post --RRB- Reformation texts, thereby providing the Catholic teacher with a genuine opportunity to teach the English Catholic literary heritage while
also teaching spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Find a multi-sensory spelling program like All about Spelling that incorporates all the different learning styles
when teaching spelling.
At Clarkdale Elementary School (Austell, Ga.), Diana
Gobbi teaches spelling, computer skills, and physical education at the same time!
Stone discusses a common myth about spelling and shares why she believes that, when armed with enough knowledge, teachers can be very confident and very enthusiastic
about teaching spelling in an engaging way.
Our analysis, Reforming K - 12 Educator Pensions: A Labor Market Perspective, shows that the current systems result in very large implicit transfers from young teachers working
short teaching spells to «long termers» who spend entire careers in the same system.
One of the best ways is through interactive online vocabulary games that don't
simply teach the spellings and meanings of words, but that also demonstrate their use in a real context.
Using information
on teaching spells in North Carolina, the authors examine the potential for using salary differentials to overcome this pattern.
Have you experimented with incorporating «text speak» in your classroom as a tool
for teaching spelling and grammar?
There are no new ideas, no very funny new characters, but one frankly unfunny new character: a retired Merlin - wizard figure, voiced by Eric Idle, who used to
teach spells in high school.
The kit contains unique and coordinated tools to
teach spelling, money, telling time and the year.
The first step in creating a facilitated network that would ultimately lead to a student - centric learning system we said in our book might come from parents creating tutoring tools online to help their children — for example, the father of a mathematics genius daughter who struggles to spell might create a unique method to
teach spelling to help her out on YouTube.
Included free is a PPT with ideas on how to
teach spelling in different ways.
Ugandan game developer Daniel Okalany, co-founder of Kola Studios, created ZWord, a game that uses the zombie destruction method and combines the properties of educational games with popular culture to
teach spelling.
Spelling Activities Bank - engaging activities to
teach spelling.
Peter Westwood's most recent title is
Teaching spelling: Exploring commonsense strategies and best practices (Routledge).
One recent development in
teaching spelling has implications for all teachers.
I give Key Stage One and Two everything they need to
teach spelling that sticks.
promoting fluent written transcription skills by encouraging extensive and effective practice and explicitly
teaching spelling;
Expanding vocabulary and
teaching spelling, punctuation and grammar in context as tools of effective writing.
If we are
teaching spelling in a hap - hazard way, with random word lists that aren't related by spelling patterns, the English language will not make sense to them -LCB- or us -RCB-.
Teaching spelling explicitly is one of those practices.
«It is possible to
teach spelling and still remain true to the philosophy of whole language.»
My cat, Gabby, knew «treat» so well that I thought I would give her a challenge, so I tried to
teach her the spelling of it.