How should spelling be taught?
1. By teachers who feel confident about what they are teaching and how to teach it.
2. In a way that allows children to explore, talk and share what they notice.
3. Through effective activities that focus on securing spellings in a child's long term memory.
4. By direct teaching focused on effective morphology, orthography and etymology.
5. Through a repetitive and effective structure that enables children to focus on the learning and not activity instructions.
The Benefits of Support for Spelling
1. Spelling improves within the first term of implementation.
2. Leaders are confident that the National Curriculum expectations (and more!) are covered.
3. Children develop and show independence.
4. The schools creates a fair approach that does not put pressure on children and families to learn spellings at home.
5. The approach is written by a nationally recognised literacy advisor, who also has extensice system leadership experience as well as experience of leading schools.
