Word Study: Spelling & Grammar

Week 5, class 1

Interview Question

• How would you address the needs of diverse learners in your JI Language class?

SPELLING PATTERNS

• SOUND• STRUCTURE• MEANING

SOUND PATTERNS

• VOWELS:– Short: ask; bet; sit; dot; but– Long: fame; eat; fight; oats; cute– Diphthongs house; noise

• CONSONANTS:– Single cat– Blends clamp– Digraphs chicken

SCHWA VOWELS

• Vowels in unstressed syllables– Composition– Planet– Minimum– About

STRUCTURAL PATTERNS

• Plurals• Contractions• Possessives• Adding endings e.g –ed; -ing

– Doubling (hop/hopping)– E-drop (hope/hoping)– Y to I (happy/happiness)

MEANING PATTERNS

• BASE WORDS• COMPOUND WORDS• PREFIXES• SUFFIXES

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Spelling Strategies

• What happens when words don’t follow familiar spelling patterns??

cappuccino

cappuccino

SPELLING STRATEGIES

• VISUAL• AUDITORY• TACTILE• MEANING• MEMORY TRICKS• DICTIONARY SKILLS

MEMORY TRICKS

pursue

because

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Ontario Curriculum: Language

• “Teachers don’t have to deal with spelling anymore. It isn’t in the curriculum.”• True / False?

• Examine both the Ontario Curriculum: Language and the Word Study Continuum handout for your answer.

Spelling Development

• Developmental Continuum– Developmental stages of learning to spell

• Gradual, systematic development of pattern recognition and application

• From an emphasis on sounding words out (frost), to the application of structural patterns (frosted), to meaning components (defrosted)

Ontario Curriculum: Grade 5

• 3.2 Writing: Spelling Unfamiliar Words • Spell unfamiliar words using a variety of

strategies that involve understanding sound-symbol relationships, word structure, word meanings, and generalizations about spelling

e.g.

• Pronounce the silent letters in words• Divide polysyllabic words into syllables• Visualize irregular plurals• Apply rules for adding –ed, -ing, and –er, est

to base words• Use memory tricks to memorize the letter

order of irregular spellings• Prefixes and suffixes

Cloze Assessment

Please accept our appolagy for forgetting to come on Saturday. We both feel very sorry and would like to repay you for our irresponcable behavior. We hope your lovable dog brady is alright because we both enjoyed his company and would like to see him well and happy. Sincerly, Ryan and Enee

appolagy a __ol__gy

irresponcableirrespon __ __ ble

alright al __ right

Sincerly Sincer__ ly

App Critiques

• Working in pairs or triads, play 3 spelling apps:– Spelling City– Spell Millionaire– Miss Spell

• Use the suggestions in the monograph you just read and the criteria in the form provided to critique each spelling app.

Resources

• Spelling: Connecting the Pieces• Nelson Word Study (kit)• Words Their Way

Sentence Structure

Sentence Building

• Using the curation skills you developed last year, go online to find at least one solid teaching idea for building longer, more complex sentences

• Be ready to share your idea with the rest of the class. Use examples on chart paper if possible