Strategies Spelling and Dictation. (72 pages)

See PASSAGES FOR READING and SPELLING and PASSAGES FOR READING and SPELLING for levelled reading and spelling practice. The 4 step spelling strategy. Practice of sounds & patterns. Spelling with dominant & non-dominant hand. Treating irregular words. Orton Gillingham Strategies for auditory and visual errors: Auditory: group, individual, by category, by rule. Activities for discriminating speech sounds & developing good listening skills. Auditory discrimination & memory. The wrong/Right test & correction of auditory confusions and Visual: correction of reversal/ rotation errors/specific sounds. Visual drill of sounds/ non-phonetic words/ rule-based errors. Visual matching. Directionality. Visual spelling chart I & ii. Simultaneous Oral Spelling: (OG strategy): pre-letter activities/ SOS for non-phonetic (memory) words. Other OG strategies: finger tapping & spelling/ spelling by syllables (2 approaches)/ drill to consolidate into long-term memory. Spelling strategies: DET Follow up to BST 2002: phonemic processing (phonemic awareness/ knowledge of letter sound correspondences/ teaching the blending of letter-sound correspondences). Teaching onset & rimes using whole words as cues. A systematic approach to teaching spelling. (DET). Dictation: procedures/ strategies/ materials. Other activities: alphabet games, the wrong/ right test, step games, more analytical activities. Spelling games & activities: have-a-go strategy/ spelling multi-syllabic words. Old way, new way. Games for irregular words. Syllables for different phonic rules 1. letter tiles. Spelling: activities supporting phonological knowledge. Word Concentration game. Anchor sentences. Word study for complex words.