the knowledge base for word study: what teachers need to know
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Welcome to day 1 of Education Spelling through Give-and-take Study. To see all of the posts in this series, please click HERE or on the image above. If you've read many of my posts, you lot know I dear the give-and-take report approach. It'south very much a part of the 2 FREE reading curricula that I write: Reading the Alphabet and Phonics by The Book. And so what exactly is Discussion Written report? Put on your seat belts and buckle up, because here we go…
Traditional Spelling
First, I wanted to grubber upwards what yous probably already know about spelling. Maybe it's how y'all experienced spelling as a child. Rote memorization. The equation looks something like this:
SEE Give-and-take + WRITE Word = MEMORIZE Word
If nosotros come across the give-and-take a lot + write (or copy) the word a lot, then the string of letters will stick in our brain. The typical spelling listing will await something similar this: made, years, know, please, etc. The words chosen for these lists are mostly loftier frequency words that are unrelated to ane another in any manner.
Nosotros too accept our lists of rules: "when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking" or "the silent eastward makes the vowel say its name". But, information technology doesn't have much fourth dimension before nosotros discover that these rules have many, many exceptions.
With traditional spelling, spelling can become rather tiresome and boring for the student (and teacher). Students are mostly passive learners; simply empty containers to fill. Students often memorize the words for the exam, just forget them after they've scored their 100's.
Rote memorization * Unrelated discussion lists * Lists of rules * Many exceptions * Dull and boring * Passive * Forgettable
Now, contrast traditional spelling with…
The Discussion Study Approach
Word Study operates under a unlike paradigm. It is "based on the belief that virtually words do follow spelling generalizations" or patterns. (Johnston) Every bit a matter of fact, studies show 84 percent of English words are mostly predictable! (Moats) Instead of memorizing lists of unrelated words, students are given word lists that are centered around a specific pattern, like word families. Through studying these patterns, students can begin to "understand how words are built and apply this noesis" in their reading and spellings. (www.spellingscholar.com)
Students are given word sorts and asked to exist active learners as they compare, contrast, sort/dispense, and allocate the words. They are too encouraged to apply and apply the word generalizations when they read and write. (Templeton & Pikulski) Peter Johnston says is best in his book Pick Words, "…at that place are hidden costs in telling people things. If students tin figure something out for themselves, explicitly providing the information preempts the students' opportunity to build a sense of bureau and independence."
Based on the patterned give-and-take lists, students begin to form generalizations that sound something like: "Near every time I run across a and i together, it makes the long a sound. And I notice that the a-i is either at the start or in the middle of the discussion." This generalization can help the educatee read and spell unknown words that share the same ai pattern.
And a very important departure betwixt traditional spelling and give-and-take study: discussion patterns are chosen specific to the spelling development of the child. This ways if the child is ready for long vowel patterns, these are the patterns he studies.
Generalizations * Patterns * Active Learners * Compare * Dissimilarity * Sort * Classify * Utilize * Specific for Child
A Piffling Theory Behind Word Study
Why are Discussion Patterns Important for Learning to Spell (and Read)?
I love how Pat Cunningham puts information technology in her volume Phonics They Employ. "The brain…is not a dominion applier but a design decoder. While nosotros await at single messages, we are looking at them and considering all the letter patterns we know. Successfully decoding (or encoding) a word occurs when the brain recognizes a familiar spelling pattern…or searches through its store of words with similar patterns." (pg. 186, 188)
Applied Knowledge of Words
"Word study teaches children to focus on patterns and meaning chunks. In a word study program, children learn to apply their knowledge to a greater number of words than they could learn past memorizing traditional spelling lists." (Mattmann & Cowan)
How many more words? Well, let's say that a child has 20 spelling words a calendar week. Now multiply that by 36 weeks for 10 years. Hmmm, 7200 words…that is, if he can memorize them all perfectly. Simply, the average vocabulary of a loftier school educatee is around 75,000 words! 7200 is only 10%! (Johnston) Allow's take the word study approach. The written report of the a_e design alone can help students learn to spell and read over 100 words (off the top of my head)!
Give-and-take Study Resources:
I could get on and on and on…really…there are whole unabridged books written on this one subject. If you're a " literacy nerd" similar me, you may enjoy these books, websites, and articles.
- x Days of Didactics Spelling Through Word Study {from This Reading Mama}
- Words Their Way-Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton, & Johnston
- Choice Words -Peter Johnston
- Phonics They Employ-Pat Cunningham
- A More than Effective Way to Teach Spelling-Mattmann & Cowan
- Building the Foundations of Literacy-Templeton & Pikulski
- How Spelling Supports Reading-Moat
- How Words Cast Their Spell-Joshi, Treiman, Carreker, and Moats
- Questions Teachers Ask About Spelling-Templeton & Morris (Reading Inquiry Quarterly)
- Spelling Scholar– FAQ
- Why Practice They Get it on Friday and Misspell information technology on Monday?– Gill & Scharer (Language Arts)
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~Becky
Source: https://thisreadingmama.com/what-is-word-study/
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