Students maintain a picture dictionary of the words they learn. Encourage students to look up words in published picture dictionaries. Spell words in reading and spelling lessons. Learn the correct spelling of words through systematic instruction. Spell previously studied words correctly in final writing products.
Teacher encourages students to use their awareness of speech sounds when spelling unfamiliar words.
Help students choose words they want to spell correctly and create picture dictionary. Teacher provides focused instruction and practice using words with repeated phonic elements. Teacher provides instruction to write using words determined from previously learned words. Ask students to spell words which were corrected in their writing. Qualitative and quantitative spelling tests.