presenter: paul woodfall with thanks to johanna sterling, kerry malster and karen ryan for their...
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Presenter: Paul Woodfall
With thanks to Johanna Sterling, Kerry Malster and Karen Ryan for their ideas
Spilling.. Spelin.. Spieling?
What is a ghoti?
Enough Ghoti used to be caught by men
cooked by women
eaten by most of the population here
before junk food came into our lives …
Yes - the answer is “fish”
Confusing?
There are reassuring patterns
How many ways How many ways can we spell the can we spell the
soundsound
/ɪ/ /ɪ/ ??
i as in fishi as in fish
i as in kitcheni as in kitchen
Brown: 2005
61%61%
There are reassuring patterns
How many ways How many ways can we spell the can we spell the
soundsound
/aɪ/??
i_e as in likei_e as in like
ie as in pie ie as in pie
yy as in try as in try
Brown: 2005
95%95%
Fun Activities to Motivate:
Visual
Word Wall
Find words within a word - e.g. believe, frightened
Create words out of a word
Fun Activities to Motivate:
Visual
Word Wall
Find words within a word - e.g. believe, frightened
Create words out of a word
Fun Activities to Motivate
Visual
Board races
Noticing the shape of a word/part of a word
Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check
Noticing the shape of words
Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check
Look/Say cover
Write Check
Write check
Revise later
Copy and say the word
No
What’s difficult?
How to remember Word shape
receipt
7ei and silent p
i before e except after c
No pay, no receipt
Fun Activities to Motivate
Auditory
Phoneme discrimination activities
Ball game
Slow spell
Blockbusters
w
u
f
i
e
p
v
c
t
d
k
n
s
h
b
y
o
l
m
r
Fun Activities to Motivate
Kinaesthetic
Feel the spelling – air, hands, backs
Alphabetti word scramble
Whole body spelling
Highlighting tricky parts of words moulding, highlighting, over-writing
Fun Activities to Motivate
Cognitive
Noticing
Test Teach Test e.g. with spelling test followed by matching to rules and re-testing later
Noticing activityHow observant are you?
What time did the sun set yesterday?
How many sides are there usually on a pencil?
On traffic lights, what colour do you see after
green? Red or yellow?
What shape is a stop sign?
Can you describe the front door of this building?
Test Teach Test example
welcome
swimming
studying
watches
hoping
receive
knives
After the test, students check
and correct their own spelling by
matching with a rule from the
worksheet on common spelling
patterns.
E.g. 1. above matches with
spelling pattern k.
There are reassuring patterns
/e/ (ten) is “e” 84% /ʊ/ (good) is “u” 64%
/ʌ/ (mud) is “u” 63%
There are reassuring patterns
/æ/ (cat) is only “a” 100% of the time
/ɔɪ/ (boy) “oi” / “oy” 100%
/aʊ/ (cow) “ou” / “ow” 99%
/ɑː/ (car) “ar” / “a” 94%
There are reassuring patterns
/əʊ/ (hope) “o” / “o_e” / “oe” / “ow” 93%
/ɒ/ (hot) is “o” 92%
/ɜː/ (bird) “er” / “ir” / “ur” / “or” / 89%
/iː/ (sheep) “e” / “e_e” / “ee” / “ea” 89%
References
•Brown, A. 2005. Sounds, Symbols and Spellings. McGraw Hill
•Hancock, M. 1995. Pronunciation Games. CUP
•Sterling, J. 2011. Teaching Spelling to English Language
Learners. Self-published, available online at Amazon or contact:
Swan & Smith B. 2001. Learner English.CUP
http://www.e-lang.co.uk/mackichan/call/pron/type.html