Spelling

Many spelling apps are just an electronic version of Look-Cover-Write-Check.  This short video provides a strategy for modifying spelling apps to help students learn the spelling code rather than just relying on their visual memory of the word. Any purchase … Continued

Vocabulary development is a key factor in reading achievement and overall academic success.  One way of increasing students’ vocabulary is encouraging them to read a wide variety of texts which contain vocabulary at an appropriately challenging level.  Research shows that … Continued

Pretty is a very interesting word beginning with how it is pronounced. Why is the ‘e’ pronounced as /i/ like in insect and not /e/ like in egg? It is actually not uncommon for the ‘e’ to represent the /i/ … Continued

I have just finished reading an interesting and informative book by David Crystal titled ‘Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling’. David devotes a chapter to arguing that the teaching of spelling rules fails to work because of … Continued

If you are not a particularly good speller, the more spelling rules you know and understand, the better your spelling becomes because it gives you a framework to determine the most likely spelling of a word and this is supported … Continued