Deliver highly interactive and structured lessons to develop dependable spelling skills.
About The Program
Help your students develop and master key spelling skills with this best-selling programme. Spelling Mastery teaches students dependable spelling skills by blending the phonemic, morphemic and whole-word approaches.
Phonemic Approach - development and application of the relationships between spoken sounds and written letters. Suitable for beginning spellers.
Morphemic Approach - exposes advanced spellers to prefixes, bases and suffixes.
Whole-word Approach - learn the meaning and root of a word and discover how its spelling is influenced. Suitable for spellers at all levels.
Components
Spelling Mastery is split into 4 levels to aid the spelling development and mastery of all learners. Included within each level are both teacher and student components as follows:
Placement tests help determine which level of Spelling Mastery is appropriate for a student. To assist in placing your students at the correct level, please follow the link below.
Research on Teaching Children to Spell This article shows the extensive research base of Spelling Mastery. Spelling Mastery is distinct from many other approaches to teaching spelling. It has demonstrated substantial effects on the spelling development of children.
Other Scientific Research and Articles
Direct Instruction and the Teaching of Early Reading: Wisconsin's Teacher-Led Insurgency The authors of this report summarize some of the research supporting the use of Direct Instruction to teach early reading skills. They also discuss some of the barriers educators face when attempting to implement Direct Instruction, specifically proponents of whole language teaching. Finally the researchers describe schools and teachers in Wisconsin that have achieved excellent results with Direct Instruction and how this is changing the minds of many critics.
