After beginning primary of English-as-a-Second-Language students learn phonetics and are advanced into spelling, reading, writing and vocabulary development, this practical spelling dictionary is suitable for general use and is edited for special use with "The Writing Road to Reading" and "America's Spelling & Reading with…

This bibliography is a listing of literacy learning materials (137 items), curricula documents (6 items), reference documents (19 items), and resource materials (16 items). All were developed in Manitoba (Canada). Ordering information and a list of abbreviations and acronyms are included. The bibliography was compiled for the National Literacy…

This booklet on spelling instruction, developed in response to requests to incoporated spelling into an integrated language arts program, contains information related to the current thinking on effective and appropriate spelling instruction. Following an overview, the booklet discusses the developmental stages of the learner, effective spelling…

Designed to determine how well the student materials and teachers' guides of commercial spelling programs inform teachers of and reflect important spelling research, present management systems adaptable to individual student needs, provide strategies eliminating unnecessary or nonspelling instruction, and maximize the provisions for individual…

Spelling programs will be most effective if centered around high frequency lists and incorporate an efficient teaching method with an effective learning procedure. (JH)

Focusing on the whole language and the direct instructional approaches, this pamphlet summarizes research on teaching and learning spelling. The pamphlet notes that the goal of the whole language approach to spelling instruction is to produce competent, independent spellers who learn through use and express their progress as increasingly…

This booklet is the teachers manual for "Spell-Write," a text to aid learners in writing, spelling, and word study, and is intended to function effectively in a variety of classroom spelling and word study programs. The booklet has four main sections. An introduction discusses briefly the alphabetical spelling lists, the background to…

The responsibility of all teachers to help children develop spelling strategies is addressed in a series of articles in this journal supplement. Following an introduction by the editor, the articles and their authors are as follows: (1) "Development in Word Knowledge" (Peggy Goldsmith); (2) "Spelling Can Be Taught" (Faye Bolton…

A study investigated whether spelling could be taught more effectively through a holistic writing approach than through the traditional basal textbook approach. Subjects, 19 second grade students at an elementary school in Sheldon, Illinois, first received six weeks of formal spelling instruction using the 1985 edition of the second grade spelling…

Emphasizing correctness and spelling as a visual skill, this spelling program calls for an individualized format built around a mastery word list. The program recommends, in addition to the master word list of 100 words, that each student develop a personal word list consisting of at least 36 words that the student has misspelled on a delayed…

The purpose of this study is to determine whether an individualized spelling program will produce better spellers than a program using the traditional spelling workbook. (Author)

Test-study spelling instruction (diagnostic-prescriptive) involves a pretest on words, practice with mispelled words, and a posttest. Study-test spelling (nondiagnostic-prescriptive) involves the study of all words, known or not known, followed by a test. A review of the literature reveals overwhelming support for the test-study method, but it is…

This paper presents seven signs or abilities that delineate a successful speller: a systematic method of approach to words, use of adequate methods of learning new words, mastery of the most common words, independence in using the dictionary, consciousness of word construction, use of a linguistic approach to regular and irregular spellings, and…