Assessing & Correcting Spelling

Description

This 1 1/2 hour workshop investigates how to assess students’ spelling, applying spelling knowledge outwards to other words with a similar spelling patterns and adding prefixes and suffixes to focus words. It also discusses strategies for correcting students’ spelling errors in a way that enables them to learn from their mistakes. It includes information on phonological awareness based errors, phonic knowledge based errors, spelling and phonic rule based errors, syntax and morphological based errors, semantic and etymological based errors and the importance of metacognition and memory strategies for learning words with unusual graphemes, silent letters or rule breakers.