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A helpful reminder that spelling needs to be taught in a context which includes a focus on both reading and writing. Reference: Topfer, C. In ALEA Practical Literacy: The Early and Primary Years, 2026. Christine Topfer (1)Download
Spelling involves the successful conversion of the spoken word into the written word. However, many descriptions of the spelling process reduce it to simply mapping sounds onto letters. This is it is an inadequate description of the skill set required for effective...
Daffern, T., Thompson, K. & Ryan, L. (2020). Teaching spelling in context can also be explicit and systematic. Practical Literacy: The Early and Primary Years, 25 (1), 8-12. This article shares a few practical insights from a large intervention study that focussed...
Bowers, J. and Bowers, P. This article suggests reading instruction should be informed by building teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge about English spellings, namely the knowledge that spelling is organised by both phonology and morphology as English is a...
Jan Turbill Language Arts 77, (3), 2000 This paper foregrounds the significant place the process of proofreading has in developing a spelling conscience in learners. Most teachers expect students to engage in the process of proofreading but few explicitly teach the...
Dr Misty Adoniou This article describes essential teacher knowledge for teaching spelling, along with a description of how this knowledge may convert to effective classroom pedagogy. The article is the result of a study of 14 beginning teachers who were participants...
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