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Discovering How the English Spelling System Works: An Introduction to Spellography
The English spelling system is complex and confusing, especially for students who experience literacy struggles. This on-demand webinar series introduces Spellography as a powerful resource for helping intermediate students understand the system and improve their reading comprehension and writing skills.
Curiously, the visual memory necessary for spelling is only incidentally visual! Language processes, including awareness of phonemes, have much more to do with spelling than generic visual memory.
In this four-part webinar series, Dr. Louisa Moats and Dr. Bruce Rosow, co-authors of Spellography, break down the layers of language and help educators see how the various parts work interchangeably together and build upon each other. Spellography is a classroom-tested program that explicitly teaches spelling concepts to help students make sense of the English spelling system and become better at understanding, reading, and writing words.
Each self-contained webinar:
- provides insight and information for immediate application
- builds upon the other to better understand the critical aspects of spelling
- empowers teachers with the knowledge to help students become better spellers
- shows educators how to use Spellography to bolster students’ phonological skills
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Learn more about adding Spellography to your reading and language arts curriculum to help older students understand the English spelling system and develop critical spelling skills.
Webinar handout
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Research Rationale for the Design and Content of Spellography
Download this resource to learn more about how the program brings research to practice by embodying instructional content and methods that are consistently supported by interdisciplinary research on learning to read and spell.
Spellography Book A and B Surveys for Pre and Post-Evaluation
Download this resource to see the word lists and skills covered in each book. The surveys are designed to test student knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences, spelling patterns, syllable combinations, spelling rules about adding endings, and awareness of meaningful parts of words or morphemes.
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How do graphemes represent phonemes in English orthography?
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Courageous leaders: The power of conviction with Laura Stewart and Louisa Moats (part 1)
Learn more about Dr. Louisa Moats’ lifelong journey to teach children to read. Explore pivotal moments in her career that led to courageous leadership in writing the groundbreaking book Speech to Print and co-authoring LETRS® and Spellography.
Courageous leaders: The power of conviction with Laura Stewart and Louisa Moats (part 2)
Laura Stewart, Chief Academic Officer at 95 Percent Group, continues her conversation with Louisa Moats, EdD, in Part 2 of this series and explores her leadership and literacy advocacy in more depth.
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How does spelling represent meaning in English?
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Spellography A Sample Lessons
Learn more about how Spellography is designed to provide older students with additional practice to transfer their spelling knowledge to writing and improve reading comprehension. Then explore the Unit 3 sample lessons.
Spellography B Sample Lessons
Take a closer look at the Unit 7 sample lessons in this 76-page booklet that includes an introduction on How to Teach Spellography Routines.
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What do syntax and grammar have to do with spelling?
Webinar handout
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Spellography Surveys of Concepts
Each Spellography book includes a survey of the concepts taught. This information is designed to provide a pre and post-assessment of phoneme-grapheme correspondence, spelling patterns, and morphological awareness.
Introducing Professional Learning for Spellography
Our Spellography implementation training, written by Dr. Louisa Moats, supports teachers as they move from a traditional weekly spelling test to a multilinguist approach to spelling instruction. Our virtual workshops help teachers deepen their knowledge of these concepts and work through the Spellography routines that provide students with the multimodal practice they need to become proficient spellers.
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It was exciting learning from Dr. Moats about how Spellography helps educators understand language structure and how to deliver meaningful instruction that develops a strong phonemic awareness foundation for our intermediate and middle school students who didn’t master PA as early readers.
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