Pointers to Consider in Teaching Spelling in Elementary Grades
- 1. Points to Consider in Teaching Spelling in the Elementary Grades
- 2. 2. The teacher must use ingenuity and variety in motivating correct spelling. 3. The teaching of spelling should provide for a pre- testing of words to determine the words to be studied in spelling lesson.
- 3. 4. The teacher must use as many sensory avenues to learning as are necessary for correct spelling. 5. Pinpoint the instructions in spelling to specific errors that are individual pupils make. 6. Review on words that have been taught should be given periodically. The interval between such periods should increase as the time goes on.
- 4. • 7. There should be provision for measuring pupil’s growth; hence; final test should be administered covering all the words learned and develop during the week. • 8. The need for much remedial instruction in spelling can be decreased by the use of preventive procedure.
- 5. Most Useful Rules in
- 6. • 1. In monosyllables ending in f, l, or s, the final letter is doubled when preceded by a single vowel; as in all, ball, puff, and mill. Exceptions; if, of, as, has, clef, was, us, etc. • 2. In monosyllables ending in other consonants than f, l, or s, the final letter is not doubled, as , log cab, pen, sun. Exceptions: Add, odd, ebb, err, puss, etc. • 3. In monosyllables ending with hard c, k, is added; as black, block, lack, neck. There are exceptions such as lac.
- 7. • 4. Monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable ending with single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final letter on receiving a suffix beginning with a vowel; as, drop, dropping; control, controlling. • 5. A final consonant, when it is not preceded by a single vowel, or when the accent is not on the last syllable, should be remain single when a suffix is added; as, travel, traveling; defend, defending.
- 8. • 7. Silent final e is retained when suffixes beginning with a consonant are added; as shoe, shoeless; life, lifeless. Exception: wholly, awful, acknowledgment. • 8. When a suffix is added to a word ending in y preceded by a consonant, y is change to I; as holy, holiness. Exceptions: adjectives of one syllable, as sly, slyest.
- 9. • 9. Compound words usually retain the spelling of the simple words of which they are composed; as railroad, well bred, etc. Exceptions: always, also, welcome, Christmas, etc. • 10. Use I before e except after c or when sounded as a, as in neighbor and weigh.