Chapter 12 - When Kids Can't Read

"Research shows us that spelling is a developmental process. Children advance through stages as their understanding of letter-sound relationships broadens. At their earliest stage, children lack any awareness of letter-sound relationships; at the most advanced stage, children manipulate Latin and Greek prefixes, suffixes, and roots to spell words correctly." Page 246

I am a horrible speller and I blame my teachers in elementary school for that. I do! I was taught to spell by sounding it out and then spelling it like it sounds. So, I would spell it like it sounded, most of the time it was wrong, but my teachers wouldn't correct my spelling. I just kept spelling these words I had sounded out wrong, until we started having spelling tests.

There are so many ways to teach spelling and how to help students with their spelling in this chapter. I really liked the list of suggestions for improving spelling and the chart of spelling demons. I know adults that struggle with these words and we want our students to spell these words perfectly, when they are hard for everybody.