Using the brain to spell : effective strategies for all levels / Sally E. Burkhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burkhardt, Sally E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Orthography and spelling.

English language.

Learning strategies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (437 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers practical advice to teachers unsure of how to teach spelling. Filled with student-centered wisdom, Burkhardt grounds her methods in both theory and practice, providing logical rules and hands-on exercises to keep students actively engaged.

Contents:

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1; In the Beginning; 2; Priming the Spelling Pump; 3; Using Logic to Spell; 4; Focusing on Letter Patterns; 5; Eye Openers; 6; Rules Rule; 7; Which One?; 8; Fine Tuning; A; Richard L. Gentry's List of 500 Words Most Frequently Used in Children's Writing, Reorganized by Patterns; B; Example Words Illustrating Multiple Spellings of the Schwa Sound; C; A Source List of Multisyllable Words for Further Logical Spelling Practice; D; Student Assignment Sheets to Reinforce Logical Spelling Principles; E

Student Assignment for Answering Questions on Logical Spelling PrinciplesF; Word Bank of Words Containing Deviant Letter Patterns; G; Word Bank of Words Containing Double Consonants; H; List of Tongue Twisters in Alphabetical Order According to Each Twister's Beginning Consonant; I; Spelling Rules Science Key; J; Word Bank for Application of Basic Spelling Rules; K; Basic Spelling Rules in an Outline Format; L; Word Bank for Application of Spelling Rules for Doubling a Final Consonant; M; Word Bank of Exceptions to Basic Spelling Rules; N

Source List for Writing Memory Tricks for Spellings of HomonymsO; Student Worksheet for Correctly Spelling "Their," "There," "They're," "To," "Too," and "Two"; P; Source List for Writing Memory Tricks for Spellings of Words Commonly Confused; Q; List of Words That Have Interesting Etymologies; R; Student Worksheet for Guessing Meanings of Vocabulary Words Used in Context; S; Noun, Verb, Adjective, and Adverb Suffixes; T; Words That Have a Minimum of Four Grammatical Forms; U; A Word Web Generated from the Roots "-Spec-," "-Spect-," and "-Spic-"; V; Magniloquence Word List; References

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-29335-4

1-283-06660-2

9786613066602

1-60709-700-1

OCLC:

713010214