Download or read book Differentiated Spelling Instruction and the Impact on Student Spelling written by Jacquelyn M. Schlosser and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does my students' spelling proficiency change after I utilize differentiated spelling and word work? This study looks at the effects using differentiated spelling instruction has on 13 students' spelling. Students took the 'Words Their Way' (Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton & Johnston, 2016) Qualitative Spelling Inventory at the beginning and end of the study. My research showed most students improved their spelling with the use of differentiation, while others showed no improvement or regression.

Download or read book Differentiated Spelling written by Sara Broughton and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spelling instruction is often overlooked by many teachers during reading and language arts. The purpose of this study was to implement a manageable differentiated word study instruction program, drawn from the Words Their Way (WTW) program, to determine how it affected students’ spelling accuracy and how the participants perceived its effect on students’ daily journal writing time in a fourth-grade self-contained classroom. Students were placed into small groups based on their spelling pre-test scores. Data was collected through field notes, student and teacher interviews, a pre- and post-test, and a survey. Qualitative data was analyzed using the constant comparative method, and quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Four major themes emerged including benefits and drawbacks of the WTW program, WTW program’s perceived impact on students’ journal writing, and WTW program helping improve students’ spelling accuracy. The researcher also found that most of the participants showed growth on the post-assessment.

Download or read book Differentiated Spelling Practice Grade 2 written by and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring spelling lists to life using Differentiated Spelling Practice for grade 2. This 80-page book works with any spelling list and includes everything needed to make students proficient, grade-level spellers! It features more than 55 games and activities that are perfect for large or small groups and partnered or individual activities. The book includes reproducible patterns, contracts, and certificates and customizable pre- and posttests, all designed to differentiate spelling instruction and engage every student!

Download or read book Teach Spelling So it Sticks written by Jane Bell Kiester and published by Maupin House Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing/reading connection means more than having your students write under the influence of literature that they have read! Noted author and educator Connie Campbell Dierking shows you how to develop a literacy-connected classroom, including using oral storytelling to scaffold primary reading and writing. She supplies more than 50 mini-lessons--organized by their classroom function--to help you explicitly teach foundational literacy skills during writer's workshop or whole-class and small-group reading instruction. Dierking encourages you to make the most of the writing/reading connection by thinking about some basic questions when you're crafting your literacy instruction: How can I connect the conversations in reading and writing workshop? What can I learn about the readers in my classroom through their writing? What can my students learn about reading through writing? How can I teach young writers to support their readers? How can I teach readers how to use a writer's supports intentionally?

Download or read book Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom written by Carol Ann Tomlinson Ann Tomlinson and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s teachers are responsible for a greater variety of learners with a greater diversity of needs than ever before. When you add in the ever-changing dynamics of technology and current events, the complexity of both students’ and teachers’ lives grows exponentially. Far too few teachers, however, successfully teach the whole class with the individual student in mind. In Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom, Carol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia B. Imbeau tackle the issue of how to address student differences thoughtfully and proactively. The first half of the book focuses on what it means for a teacher to effectively lead a differentiated classroom. Readers will learn how to be more confident and effective leaders for and in student-focused and responsive classrooms. The second half of the book focuses on the mechanics of managing a differentiated classroom. A teacher who has the best intentions, a dynamic curriculum, and plans for differentiation cannot—and will not—move forward unless he or she is at ease with translating those ideas into classroom practice. In other words, teachers who are uncomfortable with flexible classroom management will not differentiate instruction, even if they understand it, accept the need for it, and can plan for it. Tomlinson and Imbeau argue that the inherent interdependence of leading and managing a differentiated classroom is at the very heart of 21st-century education. This essential guide to differentiation also includes a helpful teacher’s toolkit of activities and teaching strategies that will help any teacher expand his or her capacity to make room for and work tirelessly on behalf of every student.

Download or read book Action Research written by Craig A. Mertler and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craig Mertler’s Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators introduces practicing educators to the process of conducting classroom-based action research. Practical and comprehensive, the book focuses on research methods and procedures that educators can use in their everyday practice. This Fifth Edition adds enhanced coverage of rigor and ethics in action research, means of establishing quality of both quantitative and qualitative data, as well as strengthened pedagogical features. New material includes discussions of social justice advocacy as an application of action research and the inclusion of abstracts in research reports.

Download or read book A Closer Look at Spelling written by Grace Oakley and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the authors take a closer look at spelling, the teaching and learning of which is considerably more complex than is often assumed. In order to spell well, children need to learn how to strategically use knowledge about phonology, orthography, morphology and etymology. It is also a visual activity that involves the laying down and retrieval of visual representations of words and word parts in memory. Children also need to learn how to use the metalanguage associated with spelling - words like phoneme, syllable, affixes and morpheme - as this will help them talk and think about spelling strategies. Thus, spelling is a language activity and also a thinking activity. Ideally, it should also be a meaningful activity that is engaged in with a positive attitude. The authors draw on the theoretical and research literature, as well as classroom examples, to explain how to teach primary school aged children to use multiple strategies to spell. They also consider the assessment of spelling, as well as how to assist those who have difficulties in learning to spell.The work makes links to the Australian Curriculum: EnglishThis book would help primary and preservice teachers by providing them with understandings, based on research and theory, which would help them choose and use appropriate pedagogical strategies (also provided in the book) to teach spelling to children with diverse needs, including children from EAL/D backgrounds and those with difficulties and disabilities that impact on spelling.

Download or read book No More Phonics and Spelling Worksheets written by Jennifer Palmer and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We want students to be curious about how words work and develop strategies that work whether they are decoding words or spelling them. And our jobs would be easier if students couldn't wait for word study. Yet so many classrooms are stuck in the cycle of unengaging, one-size fits all phonics and spelling worksheets. Reading specialist Jennifer Palmer and literacy researcher Marcia Invernizzi offer better, more effective, more engaging practices. Their suggestions lead kids to not only make progress during word study but also to transfer what they learn about words to their reading and writing. No More Phonics and Spelling Worksheets show us: why skill-and-drill methods and worksheets cause children to struggle or disengage; the kinds of teaching that research shows actually works; instructional ideas for word study can put to use right away. Pick up No More Phonics and Spelling Worksheets, discover practices that better support literacy growth, and help everyone make progress."--Publisher's description.

Download or read book Differentiating Phonics Instruction for Maximum Impact written by Wiley Blevins and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher be nimble, teacher be quick—the routines in this book make phonics learning stick. Author Wiley Blevins is renowned for changing the way educators think about teaching children to read, helping thousands of teachers implement effective phonics instruction. Now, Blevins gets us to think in powerful new ways about differentiating whole-class phonics lessons, so students at every skill level can engage. With Blevins’ trademark clarity, Differentiating Phonics Instruction for Maximum Impact provides: High-impact routines that focus on the skills known to develop students’ literacy best. Differentiated application of these routines—with fun multi-modal games and variations—for students working on- below-, and above grade-level expectations, and for multilingual learners Guidelines for creating skills-based small groups for more intensive work "Look-fors" for teachers and supervisors, to know when instruction is working or needs to be adjusted Several reproducible phonics and spelling assessments for placement, progress monitoring, and formative assessments to keep every learner growing as readers and writers. Differentiation needs to be in the DNA of every instructional plan—so all students′ skills progress every day. That’s a tall order, but with this resource, teachers discover that over time, doing the routines gives them a nimble, global sense of their learners and makes teaching more impactful and learning to read more joyful.

Download or read book A Mixed methods Study of the Impact of Cued Spelling on Student Achievement and Attitudes Toward Spelling written by Brandon Salsman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a significant increase between seventh and eighth grade students' spelling achievement and attitudes toward spelling when cued spelling was utilized for spelling instruction versus the use of traditional spelling instruction. This mixed-methods study included two seventh grade classes and two eighth grade classes at the same school. All students within the study received the same two types of spelling instruction. Approximate instructional spelling levels were determined using graded spelling lists. Participants were instructed using a traditional spelling approach for the first six weeks and cued spelling approach for the final six weeks of the study. Spelling levels were assessed using graded spelling lists and attitudes toward spelling were measured using a teacher-created questionnaire at the completion of each six-week period. Paired samples t-Test results indicated there was no significant difference in spelling achievement between the cued spelling approach and traditional spelling instruction; therefore, the hypothesis was rejected. The results of the questionnaire, for both seventh and eighth grade students, revealed a significant increase in students' preference for studying spelling with a partner during cued spelling over studying spelling alone during traditional spelling instruction. Therefore, the hypothesis was accepted for this question. However, the hypothesis regarding students learning to spell new words, perceiving spelling is easy, or that having to spell new words helps their writing was rejected.

Download or read book Words Their Way written by Donald R. Bear and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Words Their Way" is a hands-on, developmentally driven approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills. This fifth edition features updated activities, expanded coverage of English learners, and emphasis on progress monitoring.

Download or read book A Study of the Effects of Differentiated Spelling Lists on the Performance of Middle School Learners written by Joan M. McElroy and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What Teachers Need to Know about Spelling written by Peter Westwood and published by Aust Council for Ed Research. This book was released on 2008 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book bridges the gap between knowledge accumulated from research on spelling acquisition and the practicalities of teaching spelling more effectively. Current trends are examined, alongside community views on spelling standards because this is the context in which change is beginning to occur. The book contains practical suggestions on methods and activities applicable to all students, supplemented by specific advice on assessment, and links to additional resources.

Download or read book SPELL Links to Reading and Writing written by Jan Wasowicz and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Word Journeys Second Edition written by Kathy Ganske and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This trusted teacher resource and course text provides a comprehensive approach to assessing and building children's word knowledge (grades K–8). Kathy Ganske shows how carefully planned word study can improve students' reading and writing skills while fostering their appreciation of language. Complete instructions are provided for implementing the Developmental Spelling Analysis (DSA), an easy-to-use assessment tool, and for tailoring instruction to learners' strengths and weaknesses. Numerous word lists, student work samples, and "Literature Links" are included, along with 27 reproducible forms. The large-size format facilitates photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials. New to This Edition: *Addresses the Common Core State Standards. *Incorporates additional activities and technology tips, plus updated research findings. *Chapter explaining the meaning of word study and its role in literacy instruction, including "Researcher Voices" perspectives from noted experts. *Ideas for making the most of small-group instructional time. *Expanded "Literature Links" book lists, now including informational texts. *DSA answer sheets have been enhanced for easier scoring and several new reproducibles added. See also the companion volumes from Ganske, Word Sorts and More, Second Edition: Sound, Pattern, and Meaning Explorations K–3 and Mindful of Words, Second Edition: Spelling and Vocabulary Explorations, Grades 4–8, which provide a wealth of ready-to-use word study activities.

Download or read book Spelling in Use written by Lester L. Laminack and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a practical look at the role of spelling in the overall language arts curriculum, this book helps those who interact regularly with young children understand how learning to spell is part of the broader fabric of learning to write in whole language classrooms. After an introduction, chapter 1 provides opportunities to explore how teachers' beliefs about language and literacy learning impact how they view their students' writing. Chapter 2 introduces three teachers who tell their personal stories of transition from a traditional approach to spelling instruction to incorporating the study of spelling in use in their whole language classrooms. Chapter 3 provides suggestions for developing ways to systematically study and assess children's spelling in use. Chapter 4 presents the "nuts and bolts" of spelling instruction in a whole language classroom. Chapter 5 provides practical help in communicating with parents about the teaching of spelling in use. The final chapter responds to questions that teachers most often ask about spelling instruction. Contains 19 references. (RS)

Download or read book The Impact of Computer assisted Spelling Instruction on Student Achievement written by Nancy Mayer Hale and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the impact of computer-assisted spelling instruction on spelling achievement of fifth grade students.