SJSU EDEL 108A – Miscellaneous Files

Stages of Spelling:

• The Stages

• Letter Name-Alphabetic Beginning Stage
  (from handout from that group’s presentation plus some notes I tried to get down on the ELL part)
  
  
• Word Derivations see also page 181 in the class reader
  
  
• The Bottom Line: Derivational Stage
  
  
• Word Tree: Sample and Black-Line

Fun stuff: Follow the links below, read the text you find quickly and out loud and then think about what you just read…

• Pronunciation: Dearest Creature in Creation

• Scanning/Parsing Text: Pattern Recognition

• Scanning/Parsing Text: What we see

• Spelling Checkers Ode

• Groups of Things

Etymology - Curious Facts:

• One person we have to thank for some of the peculiarities of spelling in American English: Webster

Decodable Book Lists / Text

• Reading a-z
  
  
• Books to Support Phonics Reading
  
  
• Decodable Texts

Miscellaneous

• Keep Books (Ohio State University)

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