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Webinar Video: Signs for Sounds: Spelling by the numbers
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Presented October 24, 2018 by Karen Hunter, Read Naturally Educational Consultant.
Teachers can work smarter—not harder—to provide highly-effective spelling instruction for beginning and developing readers. Learning to spell and learning to read rely on much of the same underlying knowledge—the relationships between letters and sounds.
- Did you know that 50% of words have regular spelling patterns, and another 37% are very close? Students need to learn these reliable patterns. And, this instruction has a positive impact on reading development!
- Did you know that 100 words make up 50% of the words children read and write? Obviously, these words have a high priority for our instructional time. Read Naturally’s Signs for Sounds™ uses research-based strategies to teach students how to spell sound-out words (with regular spelling patterns) and spell-out words (with irregular spelling patterns)—with a special emphasis on high-frequency words.
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Webinar Handouts
Presentation packet for this webinar
Signs for Sounds level 1 sample
Signs for Sounds level 2 sample
Signs for Sounds assessment packet (levels 1 & 2)
Signs for Sounds level 1 word sorts
Signs for Sounds level 2 word sorts
Topics Covered
- Why spelling instruction is important
- How spelling instruction supports reading development
- Which words should be taught
- Effective strategies for teaching sound-out words and spell-out words
- How to implement research-based spelling instruction using Signs for Sounds
- How spelling assessments identify students’ strengths and needs and allow you to target instruction
- How Signs for Sounds can be used with Read Naturally Live
Duration
30 minutes
Audience
- Classroom teachers
- Reading specialists
- Title I teachers
- Special education and response-to-intervention (RTI) teachers
- Curriculum specialists
- Educational consultants
- Tutors
- Paraprofessionals
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