Spelling Instruction & Handwriting (6)

Question 1

3 layers of spelling information

Answer 1

Alphabetic; matching letters to sounds, left to right

Pattern; more complex grouping of letters eg. site, light, type..

Meaning; Morphological-(prefixes & suffixes), Etymological- (consistent spelling of meaning elements) eg. Crumb/crumble, compose/composition, fatal/fatality

Question 2

4 types of knowledge needed to spell words

Answer 2

Phonological awareness, phonic/orthographic knowledge, morphemic/grammatical knowledge, etymological knowledge

Question 3

Phonological knowledge

Answer 3

Recognising syllables and rhymes

Hearing the phonemes in words

Question 4

Phonic/orthographic knowledge

Answer 4

Which letters and letter patterns (graphemes) represent the phonemes

Question 5

Morphemic/grammatical knowledge

Answer 5

Stem or base words and prefixes, suffixes, inflectional endings that change the spelling and meaning of a word

Question 6

Etymological knowledge

Answer 6

Word derivations, the origins of words and their relationships between them

Question 7

Phases of spelling development

Answer 7

1. Preliminary/emergent phase
2. Semi-phonetic/letter-name phase
3. Phonetic/within-word pattern phase
4. Transitional/syllables & affixes phase
5. Independent/derivations relations phase