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‘A guide to the teaching of spelling based on a programme developed at Paremata School, Wellington, NZ’ A critical look at the teaching of spelling, How spelling skills are acquired, Planning your spelling programme, Assessing spelling knowledge, What to teach and how to teach it.Contents
Contents cover : How literacy skills are acquired : learning to read - learning to spell - the development of literacy; What a spelling programme should contain : phonemic awareness activities - letter-sound knowledge - basic word lists - orthographic and morphological knowledge - transferring spelling knowledge to writing; Planning your spelling programme : spelling programme for year 1 to year 8 - planning a classroom programme - school-wide and syndicate planning; Assessing spelling knowledge and progress : written language skills - letter-sound & sound-letter knowledge - pseudoword spelling - blends and ‘h’ digraphs - 15 minute writing sample - vowel phonograms; Assessing knowledge of spelling topics - years 3-8; Spelling topics - consonants & long & short vowels - blends and ‘h’ digraphs - plurals, & ‘s’ & ‘z’ in words - contractions and belonging apostrophes - spelling conventions for long vowels - adding endings - ‘y’ at the end of words - compound words - ‘k’ sound, soft ‘c’, soft’g’ - word endings for’il’ sound - silent letters- prefixes and suffixes - ‘r’ digraph sounds - vowel digraph spelling patterns - word families for different sounds - proof reading; Programmes for more practice - blends homework- vowel phonogram homework - phonemic awareness - syllabification; Spelling activities and games - to develop visual memory - auditory memory - kinaesthetic & tactile memory.
