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How Spelling Supports
Reading
Based on the article
“Why Spelling Supports Reading
And Why It Is More Regular and
Predictable Than You May Think”
By Louisa C. Moats
Spelling Instruction
 Can be designed to help students
 Key knowledge of spelling leads to
better reading
 Spelling and reading have same
underlying knowledge
 Strong relationship between reading
and writing
What about Spell Check?
 Is spelling necessary?
 Does spell check catch all errors?
 Is spelling important?
Rules of Spelling
 Students can develop a deep
understanding of English by
1. Studying the meaning of roots
2. Prefixes
3. Suffixes
4. Related words
5. History of words
6. Language origins
Spelling in Daily Life
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Filing
Phone book
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Writing notes
Games
Job applications
I. Nature of English Language
 Making Sense of the English Spelling
System
 Not as irregular as you think
 50% are spelled as they sound
 34% are predictable
 4% are truly irregular
First Principle
 Words’ language of origin and history
of use can explain their spelling
1. Influenced by several core languages
2. Layers of English language
Principle #2
Words’ meaning and part of speech
can determine their spelling clues to
an unknown word’s meaning
 Clues to unknown word’s meaning
 Meaning trumps pronunciation in the
spelling of hundreds of English words.
Principle #3
Speech Sounds are spelled with single
letters and/or combinations of up to
four letters
 Phoneme
 Grapheme
 Rules
Principle # 4
The spelling of a given sound can vary
according to its position within a word
 Position of graphemes in words
Principle # 5
The spellings of some sounds are
governed by established
conventions of letter sequences
and patterns
 Dictionaries
 Spelling conventions
Five Principles
 Words’ language of origin and history of use
can explain their spelling.
 Words’ meaning and part of speech can
determine their spelling.
 Speech sounds are spelled with single
letters and/or combinations of up to four
letters.
 The spelling of a given sound can vary
according to its position within a word.
 The spellings of some sounds are governed
by established conventions of letters
sequences and patterns.
Spelling Instruction
 NRP
 Better spellers = Better readers
Spelling
 Exploration of language
 Then applied to various writing
exercises
Recommendations
 Kindergarten: Phoneme awareness,
letter names, and letter sounds
 Grade 1: Anglo-Saxon regular
consonant and vowel phonemegrapheme correspondences
 Grade 1-3: Irregular Anglo-Saxon
words
Recommendations (cont)
 Grade 2: More complex Anglo-Saxon
spelling
 Grade 3: Multisyllable words,
compounds, schwa, and most
common prefixes and suffixes
 Grade 4: Latin-based prefixes,
suffixes and roots
Recommendations (cont)
 Grade 5-6: More complex Latin-based
forms
 Grades 6-7: Greek combining forms
Inventive spelling
 Helps young children learn about
phoneme-grapheme correspondences
 Frees them to focus on ideas
 Important to Remember
 Students should correct errors
Spelling Instruction
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Important
Spelling supports reading
Contributes to vocabulary growth
Contributes to reading
comprehension