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From the ORC Collection
More Resources on Spelling and Word Study: Strategies That Work for Challenged Spellers
Here are some resources from the ORC collection* related to
this month's theme, Spelling and Word Study: Strategies That Work for Challenged
Spellers.
Spelling and Students with Learning Disabilities Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–12 Professional Commentary: Students with learning or reading disabilities often have difficulty spelling. The same difficulties they experience with reading impact their ability to spell.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First
How Spelling Supports Reading: And Why It Is More Regular and Predictable Than You May Think Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–8 Professional Commentary: Why does spelling seem so simple to some individuals, yet it causes so much grief for others? How can we teach spelling in a way that supports reading, and also help students understand how the spelling system works? This article posits answers to these questions by first exploring the nature of the English spelling and writing system, and second by listing key concepts students should master in grades K-12. The author also challenges the National Reading Panel's views that progress in reading assumes progress in spelling, and cites research that supports her position....
You Can't Spell the Word Prefix Without a Prefix Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Starting with the premise that word study is intriguing and fun, students work in cooperative groups to identify, define, and construct words using a list of preselected prefixes. Students guess at initial meanings and spellings of words, then correct misspellings using spelling strategies developed by their work groups.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First
Spell Check: Appraising the Value of Good Spelling Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–7 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students examine scenarios in which misspelling words may have unfortunate results. Accurate spelling has taken on new importance in the Internet age....
Shared Spelling Strategies Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This repeated lesson helps students to develop and use effective spelling strategies during the writing process. While responding in writing to a previously read text, students are prompted to become more explicitly aware of the strategies they use .... Projects: Writing 6-12
Purdue OWL Exercise Pages Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue offers exercises in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Features of grammar, punctuation, and spelling are listed, with and exercises included for each feature.... Projects: Writing 6-12
They Still Can't Spell? Understanding and Supporting Challenged Spellers in Middle and High School [excerpt]: Chapter 8, "Less but Deeper: Teaching Strategies and Rules that Generalize" Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This chapter excerpt defines and explains reflective strategies that promote word awareness. The authors show how these strategies provide "deeper" opportunities for students to learn information about words that they can then generalize to other words.... Projects: Writing 6-12
Word Savvy [excerpt]: Chapter 1, "Introduction: Word-Savvy Thinking" Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–6 Professional Commentary: A teacher from Dublin, Ohio, Max Brand understands the frustration and ineffective nature of assigning weekly spelling lists that students memorize for the test only to misspell later in their daily writing. His book, culled from both research and his classroom experience, focuses on integrating word learning into literacy workshops in ways that are at once practical, effective, and fun for both students and teachers....
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