Reading Process I

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Competency 6.4 and 6.5

            “Word identification, vocabulary, and spelling.”  --teach students to refine spelling through reading and writing using various patterns to aid in word identification.

Research says:

• Important to write and spell as they read
• Children learn to read before writing
• Children begin spelling by using the relationship between letters and sounds
• Many children use drawings and single letters to convey messages
• Children use invented spelling to write words.   This is normal and should be encouraged.  It will usually fade with phonics awareness.

How To Do It:

• Support invented spellings
• Reassure parents that invented spelling is normal
• Support children to be aware of the sounds of spoken words and the letters that correspond to them
• Use focused instruction and practice which encourages the children to write formerly studied words correctly in finished products
• Show students how much of the misspelled word they spelled right when correcting them

Extension

1. This could be done in the classroom by allowing students to use invented spelling.  Teaching phonics awareness and having the children correct their spelling is a good way to use it also.
2. The practice of allowing children to use invented spelling develops children’s understanding of sounds, how they are separated in words, and knowledge of sound-spelling relationships.