Spelling First

Spelling

When is a g pronounced hard or soft? How does y change to i when forming plurals? How can students recognize the silent gh? This popular test brings together a year’s worth of spelling lessons for middle school students who are reading below grade level. Graphic organizers, crossword puzzles, and spelling anecdotes accommodate numerous learning styles and make the learning fun and memorable. 36 lessons, each calibrated for different learning styles Instructions are at the second-grade level, and words chosen are at the third-grade level Recommended practice is for five 10–15 minute sessions per week Pre-tests and post-tests track student progress Correlates to IRA/NCTE standards

Dictionary of the British English Spelling System

This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It's a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words, so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of words, but the other words with which those with unusual phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company. Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists of correspondences and various regularities not described by previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters ) to be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables.

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