1. Spelling Instruction

2. Big Word Game a, a, a, e, i, b, c, h, l, l, p, t
How many words can you make out of these letters?
a, a, a, e, i, b, c, h, l, l, p, t
What is the word formed by using all of the letters?

5. Spelling Counts Spelling has social importance.
Yule, 1986
Spelling achievement is valued by parents.

6. Phonemic Awareness and Spelling
Phonemic awareness is a key predictor of spelling success.
Foorman, Novy, Francis, & Lieberman, 1991; Tangle & Blanchman, 1995

7. Good spellers are better readers and writers
Good spellers are better readers and writers. Scanlon & Vellutino, 1997; Moats, 1997; Tangle & Blackman, 1995, and Urea & Shepherd, 1993

8. Children retain spelling knowledge best when they use their new words in reading and writing.
Moats, 1997

9. Stages of Spelling Development
Letter Name Stage
Within Word Pattern Stage
Syllables and Affixes Stage
Derivational Relations Stage

10. Letter Name Stage Alphabetic stage Beginning and ending consonants
Short vowels

11. Within Word Pattern Stage
R-controlled vowels
Regular long vowel patterns
Consonant blends
Common suffixes

12. Suffixes and Affixes Stage
Multi-syllabic words
Consonant doubling
E-drop before endings
Long vowel patterns in accented syllables

13. Derivational Relations Stage
Spell most words correctly

14. Why teach spelling as a part of reading?

15. Spelling is one of the 3 partners in the reading process:
Morphology: the study of word formation
Phonology: the study of sounds
Orthography: the study of correct spelling

16. Reading and Spelling Connection
Reading – decoding
Spelling - encoding

17. Consider Cow by: Alice Schertle
Which rhymes with bough
But not
With rough.
That’s clear enough.

18. Remember moo
Will rhyme
With through
But not
With trough
Or though
Or tough.

19. You’ve got
It now:
There’s dough
And bough
And cough
And through
And mough…
Er, moo.

20. At one magical instant in your early childhood, the pages of a book – that string of confused, alien ciphers shivered into meaning.

21. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened.

22. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Alberto Manguel