Best Practice in Spelling

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1、BestPracticeinSpellingMethodologieswhicheffectivelyteachstudentstobeaccuratespellersarecombinationsof:Phonemicspelling‘WholeWord’approach(Visual)MorphemicspellingDoweneedtoexplicitlyteachspelling?List3reasonswhyyoubelievespellingshouldbeexplicitlytaughtatschool.ShareyourreasonswithyourneighbourA

2、ddtoyour3reasons,onemorefromyourneighbour’slist.Weshouldexplicitlyteachspellingbecause:TheEnglishlanguageDOESconformtopredictablepatternsThosepatternscanbetaughtdirectlytostudents.Collins,1983Dixon,1991Graham,1999DixonandEngelmann,2002PhonemicApproachUnderstandingtherelationshipbetweenlettersand

3、theircorrespondingsoundsisanimportantskillforsuccessfulreadingandspellingperformance.Children(especiallyyoungchildren)havelessdifficultyspellingwordsthatarebasedonpredictableletter-soundrelationships.Teachingphonemicawarenesshas“strongandsignificanteffects”onchildren’sreadingandspellingskills,wi

4、ththoseeffectslastingwellbeyondtheendoftheteachingperiod.examplethewordhathasthreesounds:/h/,/a/,and/t/Itcanbecorrectlyspelledusingthethreeletters(h,a,andt)thatcorrespondwitheachofthosesounds.Systematicphonicsinstructionbooststhespellingskillsof:at-riskstudentsyoungdevelopingreadersstudentsfroma

5、crossthesocio-economicspectrum,fromlowtohighSocioeconomicbackgrounds(NationalReadingPanel,UK,2000)Studentsshouldhaveatleast1yearofinstructioninasystematicphonics-basedprogramtodevelopskillsrelatedtoletter-soundcorrespondence.Thisismosteffectiveintheearlyyearswhenstudentsarebuildingtheircapacityw

6、ithwrittenlanguageandwithreadingskills.http://www.fonetiks.org/foniks/1/pagessou/ii.htmlReflection:Whataresomeofthekeyconceptsaddressedsofar?MypersonalconvictionsThecorrelationsIampreparedtomakebetweenmyconvictionsandthenewlearningsAspectsIneedtoexplorefurtherWholeWordApproachNotallwordsintheEng

7、lishlanguagecanbespelledcorrectlyusingletter-soundcorrespondence.IrregularlyspelledwordsExamplesofirregularwordsincludethewordsyacht,straight,andfriendThesewordscannotbespelledcorrectlybyapplyingaregularphonicsapproach.Totea