week 5 class 1 - word study - spelling and grammar
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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
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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