How Spelling Supports Reading

1. How Spelling Supports Reading Based on the article “Why Spelling Supports Reading And Why It Is More Regular and Predictable Than You May Think” By Louisa C. Moats

2. Spelling Instruction • Can be designed to help students • Key knowledge of spelling leads to better reading • Spelling and reading have same underlying knowledge • Strong relationship between reading and writing

3. What about Spell Check? • Is spelling necessary? • Does spell check catch all errors? • Is spelling important?

4. Rules of Spelling • Students can develop a deep understanding of English by • Studying the meaning of roots • Prefixes • Suffixes • Related words • History of words • Language origins

5. Spelling in Daily Life • Filing • Phone book • Dictionary • Thesaurus • Writing notes • Games • Job applications

6. I. Nature of English Language • Making Sense of the English Spelling System • Not as irregular as you think • 50% are spelled as they sound • 34% are predictable • 4% are truly irregular

7. First Principle • Words’ language of origin and history of use can explain their spelling • Influenced by several core languages • Layers of English language

8. Principle #2 Words’ meaning and part of speech can determine their spelling clues to an unknown word’s meaning • Clues to unknown word’s meaning • Meaning trumps pronunciation in the spelling of hundreds of English words.

9. Principle #3 Speech Sounds are spelled with single letters and/or combinations of up to four letters • Phoneme • Grapheme • Rules

10. Principle # 4 The spelling of a given sound can vary according to its position within a word • Position of graphemes in words

11. Principle # 5 The spellings of some sounds are governed by established conventions of letter sequences and patterns • Dictionaries • Spelling conventions

12. Five Principles • Words’ language of origin and history of use can explain their spelling. • Words’ meaning and part of speech can determine their spelling. • Speech sounds are spelled with single letters and/or combinations of up to four letters. • The spelling of a given sound can vary according to its position within a word. • The spellings of some sounds are governed by established conventions of letters sequences and patterns.

13. Spelling Instruction • NRP • Better spellers = Better readers

14. Spelling • Exploration of language • Then applied to various writing exercises

15. Recommendations • Kindergarten: Phoneme awareness, letter names, and letter sounds • Grade 1: Anglo-Saxon regular consonant and vowel phoneme-grapheme correspondences • Grade 1-3: Irregular Anglo-Saxon words

16. Recommendations (cont) • Grade 2: More complex Anglo-Saxon spelling • Grade 3: Multisyllable words, compounds, schwa, and most common prefixes and suffixes • Grade 4: Latin-based prefixes, suffixes and roots

17. Recommendations (cont) • Grade 5-6: More complex Latin-based forms • Grades 6-7: Greek combining forms

18. Inventive spelling • Helps young children learn about phoneme-grapheme correspondences • Frees them to focus on ideas • Important to Remember • Students should correct errors

19. Spelling Instruction • Important • Spelling supports reading • Contributes to vocabulary growth • Contributes to reading comprehension