ED1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Topic Sentence, Grapheme, Phoneme
English: Functional Literacy - Tutorial 8
Spelling Strategies
Recommendations:
- Push to move away from a paper based activity into more of a game
- Playful activity - more enticing to students
- Be conscious of scale of material
Spelling
1. Sounding out
2. Which strategies are helpful in learning the words?
Breaking into syllables
Learning about word’s origins
Focusing on sounds of words
Writing out words
Graphophonics Spelling Strategies
1. Graphophonics is the study of sound symbol relationships and how they apply to the alphabetical
principle of written language
- Syllable
A unit in the phonological system of a language with a vowel/vowel sound as its nucleus; for
example, pen/cil.
- Phoneme
A class of
- Grapheme
Symbol that represents the sound
- Graph
One letter, one sound
- Diagraph
Two letters, one sound [sh/ip]
- Trigraph
Three letters, one sound [h/igh]
- Consonant blend
A combination of two of three consonant that retain their individual sounds [b/e/s/t]
Spelling strategies for Graphophonics
- Letter names are constant
- Letter sounds vary (Depending on position within the word and the surrounding letters)
- Letters can represent different sounds
- Letters sometimes work in groups
A combination of letters makes a particular sound
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Document Summary
Push to move away from a paper based activity into more of a game. Playful activity - more enticing to students. Graphophonics spelling strategies: graphophonics is the study of sound symbol relationships and how they apply to the alphabetical principle of written language. A unit in the phonological system of a language with a vowel/vowel sound as its nucleus; for example, pen/cil. Letter sounds vary (depending on position within the word and the surrounding letters) A combination of letters makes a particular sound. A combination of two of three consonant that retain their individual sounds [b/e/s/t] Literature (books) - literacy (how you write it) Topic sentence - reflect vocabulary in the sentence. Introduce your reasons for using children"s literature (author, date, p_ ). Ensure you reference all words or ideas you took from a text. All works cited in text must be listed. Do not list sources that are not cited in text.
