Understanding Spelling

<p>How do children learn to spell and what kinds of teaching support them most effectively?</p><p>Based on a three-year longitudinal study of children's spelling in different primary classrooms, <strong>Olivia O'Sullivan</strong>, Assistant Director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education and <strong>Anne Thomas, </strong>the former Inset Director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, pose a number of important questions:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>what kinds of knowledge are involved in spelling? </li> <p> </p> <li>what are the links between learning to read and learning to spell? </li> <p> </p> <li>what kinds of systematic teaching and interventions make a difference to children's progress?</li> </ul><p>Packed with case studies, photographs and examples of children’s work, this unique book sets out the most effective approaches to spelling and provides teachers with a broad set of principles on which to base their teaching. This is an invaluable resource for any teacher or trainee teacher wishing to raise standards in spelling in their classroom.</p> <p>1. Learning and Teaching Spelling 2. Understanding Spelling 3. Learning to Spell: Stages of Development or Multiple Sources of Knowledge? 4. The Case Studies <strong>Part 1: Children Who Made Good Progress as Spellers Part 2: Children in Key Stage 2 with Spelling Difficulties</strong> 5. The Effective Teaching of Spelling 6. Monitoring Spelling 7. General Conclusions and Recommendations</p>