Olivia O'Sullivan, Anne Thomas

Understanding Spelling

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Packed with case studies, photographs and examples of children's work, this unique book sets out the most effective approaches to spelling and provides teachers with a broad set of principles on which to base their teaching. This is an invaluable resource for any teacher or trainee teacher wishing to raise standards in spelling in their classroom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 296mm x 210mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780415419888
• ISBN-10: 0415419883
• Artikelnr.: 22398334

Autorenporträt

Olivia O'Sullivan is currently Assistant Director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. She has many years experience working in literacy and of designing and delivering courses. Her work includes the following: Designed and delivered a series of courses for teachers for the BBC Media Centre and has developed courses on using web publishing and digital video in the classroom. Worked on a funded project at CLPE which looked at ways of raising the achievement of boys, particularly in the area of writing. This has culminated in a book, Boys on the Margin (CLPE, 2004) Tutored for 10 years CLPE Raising Literacy Standards course which was highly evaluated by Ofsted/HMI. Worked in New York City for five years (1991-96) on a bi-annual project in New York public schools. The work involved designing and delivering a rolling programme of in-service training for cohorts of teachers, school principals and staff development teams. Acted as a consultant to Dorling Kindersley Education on two dictionaries for children. A regular contributor to CLPE Publications and a regular reviewer of publications for the Times Educational Supplement

Inhaltsangabe

1. Learning and Teaching Spelling 2. Understanding Spelling 3. Learning to
Spell: Stages of Development or Multiple Sources of Knowledge? 4. The Case
Studies Part 1: Children Who Made Good Progress as Spellers Part 2:
Children in Key Stage 2 with Spelling Difficulties 5. The Effective
Teaching of Spelling 6. Monitoring Spelling 7. General Conclusions and
Recommendations