On February 3rd, 2015, Dyslexia Training Institute held a #DyslexiaTalk chat about Structured Word Inquiry (SWI). Check out the transcript below and follow us on Twitter to join in the conversation.
Category Archives: Orthography
Misspelled Word(s) of the Day – Day 2: -ion Words
Reminder: The purpose of Misspelled Word of the Day is not to try to make everyone a perfect speller, the purpose is to learn from misspellings and then teach the student the misspelled word of the day while instilling an understanding of written language in general. The intention is not to teach students to spell every word in the English language, of which there are more than one million, the intention is to teach the student to think about words differently and learn to question, and understand word structure.
Misspelled Words of the Day – Does and Goes
The purpose of Misspelled Word of the Day is not to try to make everyone a perfect speller, it is to point out what we learn from misspellings and then how to teach the student the misspelled word of the day. Important note: the intention is not to teach students to spell every word in the English language, of which there are more than one million, the intention is to teach the student to think about words differently and learn to question spellings. Continue reading
No Such Thing As Sight Words?
Download the PDF of this article here.
No Such Thing As Sight Words?
What would you think if I told you there is no such thing as a sight word? For example, think about the word <sign>. What happens when you add the suffix <-al>? It becomes the word <signal> and the <g> suddenly makes sense because now it represents a phoneme. So the <g> in <sign> is in there to mark its connection to the words: signal, signature, designate and so on. This is a true word family. Continue reading