Delman and imore importantly we build spelling by building our word analysis skills. It really sits on the wall between phonics and knowledge. I alway
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Delman and imore importantly we build spelling by building our word analysis skills. It really sits on the wall between phonics and knowledge. I always say, want me to assess a student's reading give me a paragraph they wrote.
The spelling clues and sentence syntax tell me just as much quicker and more reliable than any running record imo.
We also know spelling gets best learned through patterns so we teach students to recognize when patterns do not match and then use the affordances of the text around them to help decode the word.
When teaching spelling the readings taught us we need to make it production based and not just rote memorization. Your connection to fluency was spot on.
