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Super Spellers
Mark Weakland
Spelling Beliefs
• Spelling should…
• Spelling should not …
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Mark’s 1-Minute Spelling Rant
• Scope of program is too wide
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Mark’s 1-Minute Spelling Rant
• Sequence moves too quickly
• Not based on mastery
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Mark’s 1-Minute Spelling Rant
• Emphasis on memorizing, not on
understanding how words work
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Mark’s 1-Minute Spelling Rant
• Not enough word work and
word study.
• Worksheets are mostly unhelpful
busy work
• Lack of authentic application
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Mark’s 1-Minute Spelling Rant
Not flexible enough
Not powerful enough
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Mark’s 1-Minute Spelling Rant
Basal programs can lead teachers
to become less effective over time,
not more.
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Tailoring content and instruction
“We can’t direct the wind, but we
can adjust the sails.”
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Understand
Assess
Step back
Teach
Bring
Build
Refine
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Understand
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• That students spell with strategies
• That sound, pattern, and meaning
lie at the heart of spelling instruction
• That spelling, reading, and writing
intersect, intertwine, and interact
• That spelling is developmental
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Assess
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• With spelling inventories
• With phonic inventories
• With independent writing samples
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Primary inventory analysis
• 32 second graders, May of 2015. On an
inventory with 25 words:
• 28% 0-2 errors (inflectional endings)
• 13% 4-5 errors (endings or low freq. vowel teams)
• 31% 7-10 errors (endings and low freq. vowel teams)
• 28% 14+ errors (digraph -CK, VCe, long vowel teams,
low freq. vowel teams, inflectional
endings))
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Step Back
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Step Back
• Consider a more focused list
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x
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What to Spell
24(Scott Foresman) Reading Street: Third Grade
Unit 1 / Week 4
cleanagreeteeth
dreamgraincoachdisplay
windowshadowcheesepeachbraid
Sundayfloat
thrown
entertaincomplainbleachers
willow
(challenge words)
What to Spell
25Open Court: Second Grade
Unit 1 / Week 2 (rule: dr-, gr-, tr-)
Unit One, Lesson Two (Come Back, Jack!)
List One List Two1. drip 1. drawer2. drum 2. driver3. gray 3. drapes4. grin 4. drowsy5. tree 5. grass6. trip 6. green7. grow 7. group8. truck 8. traveler9. try 9. trickster10. dress 10. trunk
How to Spell: Focus the List
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handletroublesimplepeoplemiddletablelittlegentlesaddlejuggleuncleriddlethrottlemiraclemuscle
Scott Foresman: Third GradeUnit 2 / Week 1 = closed /open Unit 2 / Week 2 = C+LE
How to Spell: Focus the List
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handletroublesimplepeoplemiddletablelittlegentlesaddlejuggleuncleriddlethrottlemiraclemuscle
handlesimplegentleuncle
littlemiddleriddlesaddlejugglethrottle
table
Scott Foresman: Third GradeUnit 2 / Week 1 = closed /open Unit 2 / Week 2 = C+LE
Step Back
• Consider a slower rate through
the sequence
• Consider mastery teaching,
especially of vowels
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Teach
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• Attention to sounds
• Attention to patterns
• Attention to meaning
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Phonemes
• The sounds of language
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• Sounds go together to make words
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Songs for Sounds
• What is the sound that starts / ends
these words?
• What is a word that starts with…?
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The Alphabetic Principle
• Sounds are represented by letters and groups of letters
• Encoding (spelling) and decoding (reading)
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Say, Segment, and Blend
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Cat to a Dog
cat
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sat sit
hoghit doghot
Spelling Grid
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Jaw Drop
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Six Syllable TypesType Example Exception
Closed cathamshrinkmossrobinpuppetathletic
wildfindmost
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Six Syllable TypesType Example Exception
Vowel- Consonant-e
VCe
hiketameRomelifetimecompetetrombonevalentine
give, love, have
lattice, adage
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Six Syllable TypesType Example Exception
Open gosheflurobotfrozenladyheropotato
Alaska
president
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Six Syllable TypesType Example Exception
Vowel teams
greenplaythroatrightcloudtoilslowpokecontain
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Six Syllable TypesType Example Exception
R-controlled
orstargermthirdconcertfarmerordersurgery
carry, worry
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Six Syllable TypesType Example Exception
Consonant + le
C-le
bugleriflepuzzlemaplecyclepeopletinkle
whistle
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Six Syllable TypesType Example Definition
Leftovers?
Stable final?
nationfutureinitialexplosion
Typically these are final, un-accented syllables
Bring
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How to Spell, Not What to Spell
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handletroublesimplepeoplemiddletablelittlegentlesaddlejuggleuncleriddle
examplethrottleobstaclemiraclemuscle
handlesimplegentleuncle
example
littlemiddlesaddlejuggleriddlethrottle
table
candlepimplemantlecycle
spittle cuddlefiddlesupple
titlebuglestaplerifle
maplenoblebridle
Scott Foresman: Third GradeUnit 2 / Week 1 = closed /open Unit 2 / Week 2 = C+LE
Bring in more words for…
• Word dictation
• Magnetic tiles, white board, iPads
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Word tiles
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Bring in more words for…
• Sentence dictation
• White board, iPads, pencil / paper
• Word study (ala Words Their Way)
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Where to find words
• Wilson Reading: Student Books
• Recipe for Reading
• Words Their Way
• Other
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Sir Reads-A-Lot
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