What Are The Best Ways Of Teaching Spelling?

What Are The Best Ways Of Teaching Spelling? It seems that most studies of teaching spelling begin at the same place: a child’s understanding of communication begins with sound. From infancy they are surrounded by sounds, which become words. As they are exposed to printed text, they learn to associate phonemes, the sounds they here with graphemes, the visual representation of those words. Toddlers who are exposed to the alphabet are usually fascinated with the letters. Once they have learned the names of the letters, they can begin to...

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Teaching young learners to read

What are the main issues?  • Different alphabet.  • Children are still learning to read their own language.  • English is not a straightforward language to learn to read.  • Teaching children to read English is only part of our job.  • We haven’t been properly trained to teach reading.  We need to devise a reading program for our students.  • Letter and sound recognition  • Whole word recognition & comprehension  • Learning to sing the alphabet  • Learning to use the letters...

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