- Useful Resources for the Classroom -
Spelling Resource:
This is a poster that explain the five key spelling strategies that could be implemented in the classroom. This is a greater poster that could be used in the classroom because it allows students to use more than one spelling strategy. Sourced from, Toper, C., & Arendt, D. (2009). Guiding thinking for effective spelling. Australia: Curriculum. |
Spelling Resource:
This is another spelling poster with the five key spelling strategies. You could either use this as a poster in the classroom or give each student a copy to glue into their spelling or English books so they have regular access to it. For each spelling strategy, it gives students ideas, prompts and questions of how to use the spelling strategy effectively. Sourced from, Toper, C., & Arendt, D. (2009). Guiding thinking for effective spelling. Australia: Curriculum. |
Spelling Resource:
This is a resource of a majority of the common letter patterns that help students to break up the words. These blends and common letter patterns allow students to start to break words up into blends and chunks rather than seeing the words as a make up or individual sounds and letters. Sourced from, Axford, B., Harders, P., & Wise, F. (2009). Scaffolding Literacy: An Integrated and Sequential Approach to Teaching Reading, Spelling and Writing. Australia: Australian Council Educational Research (ACER). |
Reading Resource:
When working in the Language Orientation stage the teacher can use an Interactive White Board, or as shown in the picture an overhead projector, to model what kind of aspects the students should be looking for. Sourced from, Axford, B., Harders, P., & Wise, F. (2009). Scaffolding Literacy: An Integrated and Sequential Approach to Teaching Reading, Spelling and Writing. Australia: Australian Council Educational Research (ACER). |
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Reading Resource:
Axford, Harders and Wise (2009) describe some prompting strategies to use during the final Fluent Readers stage, which allows the teacher to assist but maintains the students control. Sourced from, Axford, B., Harders, P., & Wise, F. (2009). Scaffolding Literacy: An Integrated and Sequential Approach to Teaching Reading, Spelling and Writing. Australia: Australian Council Educational Research (ACER). |
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