Spellography

**__﻿ __**A student roadmap to better spelling! 
 * __Spellography __**

﻿ ﻿  ﻿Designed by: Louisa Moats, Ed.D. and Bruce Rosow, M.A.  For Grades 4-5 General Education and Grades 6-7+ Remediation  ﻿Spellography was designed to help spelling "make sense" for all students. It is effective for whole-class or small-group instruction. Students learn: Spellography consists of 27 lessons that are filled with lighthearted and humorous activities. Daily instruction include tales (and woes) of funny characters such as, Professor Fuzzy Thunker, brothers Thor and Chip, and Oyster Hoister. Activities for students include pretests, self-checks, partner pair-offs, and spelling journals. Spellography uses the speech-to-print model for teaching spelling. It helps students hear the sounds in a word and apply spelling strategies to eliminate guessing. Each of the 27 lessons follows the same format: The following elements appear in most of the Spellography lessons, which can take a week or more to teach:
 * Sound-Spelling Links (phoneme-graphme correspondence)
 * Common Irregular Words
 * Syllable Spelling Patterns and Combinations
 * Prefix, Root, and Suffix Constructions (morphology)
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Sentence Structure
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Parts of Speech: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Idioms, Figures of Speech, and More.
 * 1) <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Teach the concept
 * 2) <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Lead students through an application of the concept
 * 3) <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Have students practice the concept with supervison.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Phonemic activities include phoneme segmentation, phoneme deletion, phoneme substitution, and sound-reversal exercises. Spellography lessons also include new vocabulary, idioms, and word roots. These all help to improve reading comprehension, reading fluency, and writing fluency. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Spellography introductory classroom set includes: Teacher's Resource Guide, Two Colorful Posters, Teacher Guide A, and Student Lesson Book A (25 copies).
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">A set of 24 study words, divided into groups of four by level of difficulty
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Phonemic awareness excercises
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">An introduction to the main spelling pattern, with exercises to review that pattern, including a word-sorting activity
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Exercises on word usage (parts of speech) and meaning
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Exercises to review syllable structure
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Practice with alphabetical order
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Exercises to study morphology, including word dissection and word building
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Dictation exercises, includeing sentence formulation by students
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">A timed exercise for reading fluency

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Spellography Introductory Classroom Set Costs: $257.49

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