Understanding Spelling
Olivia O’Sullivan & Anne Thomas
How do children learn to spell and what kinds of teaching support them most effectively? This practical guide for improving children’s spelling is based on a unique three-year study of children’s spelling in a number of classrooms and poses some important questions:
* What kinds of knowledge are involved in spelling?
* What are the links between learning to read and learning to spell?
* What kinds of systematic teaching and interventions make a difference to children’s progress?
Packed with case studies, photographs and examples of children’s work, this unique book sets out the most effective approaches to spelling and provides teachers with a broad set of principles on which to base their teaching.
Published by Routledge in association with the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education
ISBN-13: 978 0 415 41988 8
Format: Paperback
Published in 2007
