Useful & Practical Ideas

 Activities that
 promote spelling

• 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.