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Learning Resources - Spelling - What do good spellers do?

 Articles:
 
  Introduction
  The Teaching of Spelling
  Learning to Spell
  Good Spellers
  Spelling Strategies
  Practical Spelling Ideas
   

 Activities that
 promote spelling

  WordSearches
  StoryTeller
  Jumbled Words

 

 

   
Generally, research has found that:
  • Good spellers have many strategies they use to help them learn to spell.
  • Children who self correct by reading over their work learn a great deal about spelling.
  • Good spellers search for ways in which language works and move from approximations to conventional spelling in much the same way as they learn to talk
  • Reading helps children learn to spell.
  • Memorising and learning to spell are two different processes.

From the book Parents, Teachers, Partners by Barry Dwyer.