Many teachers will often see students pick up spelling and word knowledge, but struggle to transfer it to their writing.

To talk about teaching spelling within the context of writing, we're joined by Diane Snowball, a highly experienced educator who led significant change in education throughout whole school districts in the US as well as Australia.  

Some key considerations discussed in the episode:

• The context for teaching spelling
• How students understand spelling
• Strategies used for spelling
• Teaching through investigations
• How do we teach spelling strategies that will work?
• How the approach changes across year levels
• Analysing writing for spelling knowledge/strategies
• Supporting less able students

Learning words

• High frequency words (or the words we all use the most in our reading and writing)
• Why 'word walls' are useful
• Other alternatives to rote memorisation

Learning personal new words for writing

• Proofreading
• Choosing words
• Learning words
• Learning related words
• Getting feedback

Learning about words

• Developing phonological awareness
• Learning letter names
• Learning about spelling patterns
• Learning about spelling generalisations
• Other investigations

And much more!

Resources mentioned in this episode:

TEACHIFIC
Teaching and Learning About Spelling by Diane Snowball https://www.teachific.com.au/view/1732/teaching-and-learning-about-spelling

Spelling: Suggested Teaching Plan K-6 by Diane Snowball https://www.teachific.com.au/find?page=2&search_type=standard&category_group=0&types[]=125

Analysing a Student’s Writing to Check Their Spelling Knowledge v2 by Diane Snowball https://www.teachific.com.au/view/1913/analysing-a-students-writing-to-check-their-spelling-knowledge--

Rimes A3 Flip Chart (Mini Lessons): https://www.teachific.com.au/view/1915/rimes-a3-flip-chart

AMAZON

‘Spelling K-8’ by Diane Snowball and Faye Bolton https://www.amazon.com.au/Spelling-Diane-Bolton-Faye-Snowball/dp/1571100741

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