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Author Gentry, J. Richard.

Title Teaching kids to spell / J. Richard Gentry, Jean Wallace Gillet
Published Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [1993]
©1993

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Description ix, 136 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Reconceptualizing Spelling Instruction -- 2. How Spelling Begins -- 3. Five Stages of Invented Spelling -- 4. Assessing Invented Spelling: Snapshots of the Mind -- 5. What Makes an Expert Speller: The Phonetic, Semantic, Historical, and Visual Demands -- 6. A Workshop Approach to Teaching Spelling -- 7. Choosing Spelling Words -- 8. The Effective Schoolwide Spelling Curriculum -- Appendix A: Origins of English Words -- Appendix B: Word Lists Organized by Sound or Letter -- Appendix C: Five Hundred Words Most Frequently Used in Children's Writing -- Appendix D: Words Most Commonly Misspelled in Children's Writing -- Books about Process Writing and Spelling
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 133-136
Subject English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Study and teaching (Primary)
English language -- United States -- Orthography and spelling -- Study and teaching.
Author Gillet, Jean Wallace.
LC no. 92024371
ISBN 0435087606 (alk. paper)