BY JAVED IQBAL PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT TEACHER OF PDCN FOR EDIP PROJECT

How to Improve Students’ Spelling Skill

Outline

Session Learning OutcomesWhy Teaching SpellingHow do we Know and how to spell a wordGeneral rulesPlural WordsPatterns

Session Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session C.Ps could be able to;

1. Share the importance of spelling skills in writing,

2. Discuss some rules to students’ spelling skills,

3. Devise some strategies to improve students’ spelling skills.

Question for Debate

In which language Spelling is difficult Urdu or English?

Why Teach Spelling

Ensures accuracy of communicationBoosts confidenceEncourages writing fluencyHelps with readingRewards / exams / career plansIntegral part of English language!

General Rules

Understanding basic alphabetic concepts

Understanding variations in

grapheme/phoneme relationships

Using syllabification

Get hold of a dictionary book/digital/mobile

and a notebook. Look up words and add them

to the notebook .

Cont….

Use the computer spellchecker to your advantage.

Using context and meaningLook –Say- Cover - Write - Check Westwood

(1994)Break the word into syllables Look at the base word Categories the word according to spelling

pattern e.q ie, ei

Plurals, Part 1

Most words become plural by adding s:

chickenchickens, bookbooks, kitekites

Use es for words ending in s, sh, x, z, or “soft” ch:

beachbeaches, fixfixes, quizquizzes

Plurals, Part 2

Words ending in a vowel + o become plural by

adding s: rodeorodeos, duoduos

Words ending in a consonant + o become plural

by adding es: tomatotomatoes, heroheroes

Our ears were glued to the radios as we listened

to news about the tornadoes.

Plurals, Part 3

Many words that end in f or fe become plural with

ves: leafleaves, lifelives, knifeknives

Words that end in ff or ffe become plural with just

an s: knockoffknockoffs, giraffegiraffes

Our lives would improve if the giraffes quit eating

the leaves off our shrubs.

Final E Words

If a suffix begins with a vowel, you will usually remove the final e: hopehoping, loveloving, participateparticipating

If a suffix begins with a consonant, you will usually keep the final e: lovelovely, amuseamusement, hopehopeful

Climbing to the top of the mountain was too challenging, so we gave up and wallowed in discouragement.

PatternsA pattern is a repeating unitSpelling patterns are repeating sounds in words. Example: mouse, house, out, cloud are all words that repeat the sound “ou”Spelling patterns are not always spelled the same but the sound is the same. Example: The “ow” sound in the word flower is the same sound as

Cont…..

i before e, except after cachieve, believe, bier, brief, hygiene, grief,

thief, friend, grieve, chief, fiend, patience, pierce, priest

ceiling, conceive, deceive, perceive, receipt, receive, deceit, conceit

and in words that rhyme with hayneighbor, freight, beige, sleigh, weight, vein,

and weighand some other exceptionseither, neither, feint, foreign, forfeit, height,

leisure, weird, seize

Cont….

When adding an ending to a word that ends in a consonant, we double that consonant when the ending begins with a vowel and the last syllable of the word is accented and that syllable ends in a single vowel followed by a single consonant

ADMIT + -ed = ADMITTEDFLAP + -ed = FLAPPEDBEGIN + -ing = BEGINNINGDESPAIR + -ed = DESPAIRED Why

References

Jacari Workshop MT 2009: Teaching Spelling

1998, NSW Department of Education and Training Curriculum Support Directorate

http://trevorcairney.blogspot.com/2009/09/helpin-children-with-spelling-skills.html

Message of the Day

Educating minds without educating

heart is not education at all.

Aristotle

Any ?