Designed for teachers wanting to know what to do to help pupils with spelling difficulties, this book combines practical advice with theory, research and accounts of the author's own experience. The author looks at how spelling skills develop in both young children and older pupils.
Vocabulary & Spelling presents thirty-two lessons that cover a broad range of topics from etymology to context clues to spelling patterns. It is essential that vocabulary instructions include a variety of strategies to develop students' word-study skills. Lessons in Vocabulary & Spelling provide many different ways of exploring and studying words, word parts, semantic families, and spelling patterns and rules. Activating students' prior knowledge of words and of essential concepts related to words helps students make associations between new terms and words they already know. An answer key is included.
Most misunderstood words are born in spoken speech; at one time, they would only gradually bleed into writing. Whether due to an honest typo or a flat out error, confusion in grammar and misunderstood words can now fly across the planet at lightning speed, thanks to email forwarding and “copy/paste” in social media. Continued exposure to misuse or improper spelling can even replace words that were carefully hammered into our heads while we originally learned to speak and write them...
Communicating with friends across the pond is a perpetual problem. American and British spelling differences include simple changes that affect the meaning, pronunciation and use of words. Today, native and non-native English speakers are the largest group in the world, but the dialects they speak are shockingly different. Linguists have pinpointed the transition to today’s English to sometime during the 1800s.
Here are several examples of common British spelling differences and their US counterparts.
Spelling with the Spellits and Spelling Strategies - a series of British television BBC to help elementary school students in the study of spelling, word formation and pronunciation of English words. Cartoon characters explain the rules and exceptions, sing funny songs to help you better assimilate the material and dramatizations teach young viewers, in a awkward position can get, if you are illiterate. The disc can be recommended to students of English special schools for memorizing the spelling, as well as developing a good perception of oral British speech.
