Articles:
Activities
that
promote spelling
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Many years ago, we learned
to spell by learning the names and sounds of letters first, then we
put those letters together and formed words. Then we read
sentences with those words in them and if we didn't know the words,
we couldn't read the sentence. I remember it as being stilted
and irrelevant, the stories that were used to teach us to read were
boring and bore little resemblance to our personal experience.
Nowadays, rather than a rote
letter by letter, word by word approach, the teaching of spelling is
more student centered and individualised, using words that are
(hopefully) relevant and meaningful - these words have often been
taken from the children's own writing.
It is commonly believed by
those who were taught spelling the traditional (rote learning) way,
that if children were systematically taught all the spelling rules
and letter sounds (phonics), then spelling abilities would improve
dramatically. And if it weren't for the many exceptions to these
rules and the different learning needs of children, then that
may be so.
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