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10: Teaching Spelling

Study Questions
  1. How are reading and spelling alike, and how do they differ?

  2. How is spelling important to reading and writing development?

  3. Define orthography, phonetics, phonology, phonics, and morphology.

  4. How does awareness of other language domains affect spelling accuracy?

  5. 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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