why teach spelling?
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Why teach spelling?. Precision. Personalisation. Appropriate pedagogical experiences. Daily Instruction. Assessment Data. Readiness to learn. Precision. Building Leadership Capacity. Personalisation. Moral Purpose. Professional Learning. Professional Learning - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
WHY TEACH
SPELLING?
BuildingLeadershipCapacityMoral
Purpose
ProfessionalLearning
PrecisionPe
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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 SAMPLESOne 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?