Spelling Rules, Riddles and Remedies: Advice and Activities to Enhance Spelling Achievement for All

Sally Raymond

ISBN 10: 1138347396 / ISBN 13: 9781138347397

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018

About this Item

2018. 2nd Edition. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9781138347397

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spelling Rules, Riddles and Remedies: Advice and Activities to Enhance Spelling Achievement for All
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138347396
• ISBN 13: 9781138347397
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Spelling Rules, Riddles and Remedies is for anyone supporting learners who are struggling to understand the world of English spellings.

This book engages learners and enhances their learning by using practical and dynamic resources to reveal the cause and effect of spelling confusions. By posing opportunities for understanding memory-related applications, learners and their spelling tutors are empowered with the knowledge and resources required to amend, improve and proliferate spelling success.

In this revised edition, bestselling author Sally Raymond offers further unique and accessible 'Spelling Detective' and 'Learning Application' activities and explores ways of empowering individual learners. Offering a wealth of effective approaches to improving spelling, chapters:

• demonstrate how spelling errors can be examined to develop solutions for individual learners;
• show how to engage pupils through use of meta-cognition;
• highlight the reasons why spelling abilities might fail;
• explore and resolve the impact of English spelling irregularities and deviations through informed discovery;
• illustrate how to use mnemonics and story-lines to link tangible prompts to confident spelling ability;
• provide structured game-play and challenging practice lessons.
• boost pupils’ achievement through the strategic use of multiple processing skills.

Clearly presented and highly illustrated, this book encourages creativity and shows teachers how to adopt and adapt a variety of learning strategies to suit different needs. Targeting learners in Key Stage 2 upwards, Spelling Rules, Riddles and Remedies brings a wealth of ideas to stimulate spelling success.

About the Author

Sally Raymond has worked as a school SENCo, a dyslexia tutor and a dyslexia course manager delivering SpLD teacher-training courses. She has also provided dyslexia consultancy advice to schools, colleges and workplaces across the UK.