Spelling in Use_0814146635.pdf

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Laminack, Lester L.; Wood, Katie

Spelling in Use: Looking Closely at Spelling in Whole

Language Classrooms.

National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana,

Ill.

ISBN-0-8141-4663-5

138p.; Foreword by Sandra Wilde; Afterword by Lucy

Calkins.

National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W.

Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096 (Stock No.

46635-3050; $8.95 members, $11.95 nonmembers).

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Classroom Techniques; Elementary Education; *Lan~uage

Acquisition; *Language Experience Approach; Middle

Schools; Parent Teacher Cooperation; *Spelling;

*Spelling Instruction; *Student Evaluation; Teacher

Behavior; *Whole Language Approach; Writing

(Comp os i t ion)

Providing a practical look at the role of spelling in

the overall language arts curriculum, this book helps those who

interact regularly witn young children understand how learning to

spell is part of the broader fabric of learning to write in whole

language classrooms. After an introduction, chapter 1 provides

opportunities to explore how teachers' beliefs about language and

literacy learning impact how they view their students' writing.

Chapter 2 introduces three teachers who tell their personal stories

of transition from a traditional approach to spelling instruction to

incorporating the study of spelling in use in their whole language

classrooms. Chapter 3 provides suggestions for developing ways to

systematically study and assess children's spelling in use. Chapter 4

presents the "nuts and bolts" of spelling instruction in a whole

language classroom. Chapter 5 provides practical help in

communicating with parents about the teaching of spelling in use. The

final ~hapter responds to questions that teachers most often ask

about spelling instruction. Contains 19 references. (RS)

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