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10: Teaching Spelling
Study Questions
- How are reading and spelling alike, and how do they differ?
- How is spelling important to reading and writing development?
- Define orthography, phonetics, phonology, phonics, and morphology.
- How does awareness of other language domains affect spelling accuracy?
- What makes a word irregular for spelling? Can a word be regular for reading and irregular for spelling? Can a word be irregular for reading and regular for spelling?
Activity
On a sheet of notebook paper, make three columns Regular, Rule, and Irregular. Analyze and sort the following groups of words according to their spellings:
Group One: farm, cow, chick, lamb, duck, digging, egg, barn, plentiful, field
Group Two: transportation, car, plane, shipping, vehicle, driving, train, barge, steamer, rocket
Group Three: fruit, grape, cherry, banana, kiwi, strawberry, raspberry, peach, apple, lime
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