Better Spelling

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Better Spelling

• Presenter Krista Hiser
• Holomua Writing Instructor

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Better Spelling

• Attitude Spelling is not the Enemy
• WHY youre a lousy speller
• Common patterns of error Whats Yours?
• A Few Rules
• What Can You Do?

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Pijin Wawrz

• De tawt hi waz wan a dem.
• Big Ben da bichreya.
• Hi wen ple ap hiz Loko rutz, bat hi wen put daun
  his kalchrol heritej.
• Aefta da riilekshenz awv 2022 hiz bainaeriz wen
  go awl balistik aen hiz progaemin kam awl
  haemajaeng.
• Hi wen go mek da maendeit daet dea was tu bi no
  Pijin in skul watso-evaz.
• From Lee Tonouchis story Pijin Wawrz

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Question?

• Papah
• Pepa
• Paeper
• Papur

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Answer

• Greek papuros

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English Spelling is NOT phonetic

• It is based on word roots from other languages
  like
• Greek, Latin, and French.
• Who decided on spelling?

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Whats in a Word

• Vowels open sounds, in pairs or alone
• Consonants closed sounds, often in chunks or
  pairs
• Syllable a vowel consonant unit that makes a
  beat

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Modalities

• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinaesthetic

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Spelling Tests

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A few rules

• I before e, except after c
• Or when it sounds like a
• As in neighbor, and weigh.
• Weird, Their, and Neither
• Arent the same either.

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A few more rules

• When two vowels go out walking
• The first one says its name,
• The second one is silent
• (wait, beat)

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More vowel rules

• Silent e is a superletter. When it jumps over
  a letter, it makes the other vowel say its name.
• Wave, Lame

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And dont forget

• Every syllable has a vowel

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Rules Dont Work

• Successful spellers

Try it Out!
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Patterns of error

• Omission
• Contraction
• Insertion
• Transposed (mixed up)
• Doubling
• Substitution
• Homophones
• Vowels and vowel pairs

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8 Ways towards Better Spelling
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8 Ways towards Better Spelling

• 1. money back guarantee method
• track your errors using Try it Out method

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8 Ways towards Better Spelling

• 2. best way
• Read and notice words to enhance visual memory

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8 Ways towards Better Spelling

• 3. use words within words
• and learn word roots

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8 Ways towards Better Spelling

• 4. learn prefix and suffix patterns

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8 Ways towards Better Spelling

• 5. Study words in families
• (words with ie, words that rhyme)

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8 Ways towards Better Spelling

• 6. Latent learning

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8 Ways towards Better Spelling

• 7. spellchecker games

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8 Ways towards Better Spelling

• 8. choose personal words to learn

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Thank you for coming

• Please fill out the evaluations and leave them on
  the back table.