For complete information on all these resources, see the bibliography for this unit.
| TITLE | AUTHOR | VALUE / USEFULNESS |
|---|---|---|
| Section 1: Spelling Awareness | ||
| Strategies for Spelling | Manitoba Education, Training and Youth, Adult Learning and Literacy | This is a distance education course that is easy to understand. |
| Journeyworkers | Mary Norton | This tutor training manual has good background material and appendices. See pages 88-109 and 151-157. |
| Signposts to Spelling | Joy Pollock | This includes a readable section on the history of spelling, pages 44-56. |
| History of the English Language | The Answers.com website | This web page gives more in-depth information on the history of English. |
| English Orthography | The Answers.com website | The web page shows the way the sounds of the English language changed during the course of its history. |
| Section 2: Memory and Spelling | ||
| Unscrambling Spelling | Cynthia Klein and Robin R. Millar | Pages 16-19 and Resource Sheets 9-12 give a little more background on spelling and some more activities. |
| Section 3: Spelling Techniques | ||
| Spelling Strategies You Can Teach | Mary Tarasoff | Pages 29-60 cover a variety of spelling techniques. |
| Section 4: Analyzing Spelling Errors | ||
| Unscrambling Spelling | Cynthia Klein and Robin R. Millar | Pages 26-31 and Resource Sheets 7a and 7b look at error analysis and processing difficulties. |
| Section 5: Planning for Spelling | ||
| Spelling Strategies You Can Teach | Mary Tarasoff | Pages 1-28 provide some background on approaches to spelling lessons. |