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The student is expected to

demonstrate and apply spelling knowledge by:

 

spelling words with closed syllables, open syllables, VCe syllables, vowel teams, and r-controlled syllables;

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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning reading and writing. The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell.

Administer a Spelling Test

Spelling assessments should range from five to ten words a week with possible bonus words if necessary. Use words that follow the spelling pattern being focused on, but do not limit the list to a set of words studied during the week. For example, if students worked with the words cape, hike, rope, cube during the week, then they could be assessed on the words tape, bike, hope, tube. The spelling pattern is the same, but the words are different. This ensures understanding of the spelling pattern is occurring.

A closed syllable is a syllable that contains only one vowel, spelled with one vowel letter and ending in one or more consonants that close off the vowel. The vowel makes its short sound. Examples of words with closed syllables include cat, kitten, comet, pencil, dentist, and hundred.
An open syllable is a syllable ending with a long vowel sound that is spelled with a single vowel letter (e.g., he, me, yo-yo, open, apron, baby).
An r-controlled syllable is one that includes a vowel followed by the consonant r, so that its pronunciation is influenced by the /r/ and is neither a long nor short vowel sound (e.g., farm, her, first).
to write/form words from letters
A VCe syllable (vowel-consonant-e) is a syllable that includes a vowel followed by a consonant and a silent e. This makes the vowel produce the long sound. Examples of VCe words are wave, those, cube.
Vowel teams consist of two or more vowels that make one phonemic sound. Two types of vowel teams are vowel digraphs and vowel diphthongs (e.g., ee, ai, oa, ow).

Research

1. What Works Clearinghouse. (n.d.). Foundational skills to support reading for understanding in kindergarten through 3rd grade: practice guide summary. Washington, DC: Institute of Education Science. Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/PracticeGuide/21

Summary: This practice guide provides four recommendations for teaching foundational reading skills to students in kindergarten through 3rd grade. Each recommendation includes implementation steps and solutions for common obstacles. The recommendations also summarize and rate supporting evidence. This guide is geared towards teachers, administrators, and other educators who want to improve their students’ foundational reading skills.

2. Bear, D. R. & Templeton, S. (1998). Explorations in developmental spelling: Foundations for learning and teaching phonics, spelling, and vocabulary. The Reading Teacher, 52(3), 222–242. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20202044

Summary: Bear and Templeton addresses two broad questions in this article: What is our understanding of spelling development and how does this understanding fit within a broader model of litearcy development? What are the implications of the developmental model for spelling instruction and word study?