why teach spelling?

WHY TEACH

SPELLING?

BuildingLeadershipCapacityMoral

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‘Breakthrough Framework’Breakthrough- Fullan, Hill & Crevola

Precision

Assessment Data

Daily Instructio

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Personalisation

Readiness to learn

Appropriate pedagogical experiences

Professional LearningFocused daily learning of teachers; individually and

collectively

WALK AND TALK

Walk and Talk………Is spelling important?

WHAT IS A ‘GOOD’ SPELLER?

Record 3 characteristics.

WHAT IS A GOOD SPELLER?

A GOOD SPELLER IS NOT NECESSARILY SOMEONE WHO SPELLS ALL WORDS CORRECTLY.

Good spellers take risks and attempt new words.

Good spellers use different strategies to try words as they are writing.

Good spellers use resources like dictionaries and word lists.

Good spellers are interested in words. Good spellers are aware that their writing

needs to be easily read by others.

WHAT IS A GOOD SPELLER?

A GOOD SPELLER IS NOT NECESSARILY SOMEONE WHO SPELLS ALL WORDS CORRECTLY.

Good spellers read often and enjoy reading.

Good spellers use what they already know about words to figure out new words.

Good spellers assume responsibility for proofreading and editing.

Good spellers integrate sound, visual and meaning knowledge.

SPELLING BELIEFS Revise 1 – 2 – 4 Turn and talk…what are the implications

for our teaching? Share

WRITING SAMPLES

One day I went to daycuer and I brot two benebabs.One was a rabit and one was a duk.I poot them in my bacpac and then when I cam bac to my bacpac they wer gon.I lookt evrewer.The techer poot up a sin a bat my benebabs. Thay wer mising.

I had a cat. I like my cat. My cat is fat. My cat is good.

Who would you

rather teach?

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A ‘GOOD’ SPELLER AND A ‘SAFE’ SPELLER?

TURN AND TALK

JASPER YEAR 3 WORKING ON WORDS

ELLA YEAR 5 WORKING ON WORDS

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A ‘GOOD’ SPELLER AND A ‘SAFE’ SPELLER?

TURN AND TALK

Learning spelling separately from writing is like learning music theory

without playing music.

What’s the point and where’s the enjoyment?

RESEARCH TELLS US… Good spellers are usually good readers and

writers. Children move through predictable,

developmental stages in spelling. Children use invented spelling to explore their

understanding of spelling rules and patterns. These ‘errors’ inform our teaching.

Helping a child to become a competent reader and writer must take priority over helping him to become a proficient speller.

Students learn more about words through an inquiry approach than a one-size-fits-all memorisation process.

Summary from Gentry & Gillet (1993)

WHAT DOES THIS LOOK LIKE IN REALITY? HOW DOES IT

WORK??

TAKE HOME QUESTION:

How can you support all students to be ‘good’

spellers?