childrens spelling Flashcards
7 main types of spelling errors
insertion, omission, substitution, transposition, phonetic, over/under-generalisation, salient
what is Barclays stages of writing
scribbling, mock handwriting, mock letters, conventional letters, semi phonetic, phonetic, competent
what are the main stages of Barclays stages of writing
semi phonetic, phonetic and competent
what is semi phonetic
spelling words the way that they sound
what is phonetic
spelling words more accurately but still with errors
what is the competent stage
the standard spelling
main issues with english spelling
only 26 letters but 44 phonemes
english is made up of lots of other languages with different phonetic systems
what is a grapheme
an individual mark that has meaning
eg. a letter, punctuation, emoji
what is orthography
the conventions of writing a language
eg. spelling, punctuation and capitalisation etc
how is learning to write different than learning to speak
not automatic
has to be explicitly taught
has to come after learning to speak
what is a digraph
a single phoneme is represented by two graphemes
