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Ep. 191: Teaching Spelling is Teaching Reading with Pam Kastner

Apr 26, 2024

Expert in literacy education, Pam Kastner, discusses the connection between teaching spelling and reading. She emphasizes that spelling is a higher linguistic skill that aids in understanding word structure and improves reading abilities. Effective spelling instruction integrates various linguistic components and should be aligned with research-based practices. Pam highlights the value of spelling inventories for assessment and using spelling errors as a learning tool.

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Pam Kastner

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Quick takeaways

Teaching spelling enhances reading by focusing on complete recall, memory, and word structure.

Accurate spelling showcases language competence, impacting intelligence perception and overall language proficiency.

Deep dives

Spelling plays a crucial role in reading: The reciprocal relationship

Spelling and reading are reciprocal processes. Teaching spelling can significantly enhance students' reading abilities. In a presentation, words were read accurately, but spelling them showed complete recall and memory, highlighting spelling as a higher linguistic skill. While being able to spell a word aids reading, being able to read it does not guarantee spelling accuracy, emphasizing the interconnectedness of these skills.

Introduction

2min

Enhancing Literacy Skills through Spelling and Reading

17min

Balancing Phonics Instruction for Literacy Success

2min

Teaching Multisyllabic Words

3min

Teaching Spelling: Analyzing Errors and Improving Instruction

12min

Effective and Research-Based Approaches to Teaching Spelling

4min

Pam Kastner discusses the connection between spelling and reading. She emphasizes that teaching spelling is teaching reading, as spelling is a higher linguistic skill that requires complete and accurate recall and memory for words. Spelling helps students understand the internal structure of words and improves their reading abilities. She suggests using instructional routines that integrate phonology, orthography, morphology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics to teach spelling effectively.

Takeaways

Teaching spelling is teaching reading, as spelling is a higher linguistic skill that requires complete and accurate recall and memory for words.
Spelling helps students understand the internal structure of words and improves their reading abilities.
Effective spelling instruction should be explicit, systematic, and teach spelling patterns from least complex to most complex.
Instructional routines should integrate phonology, orthography, morphology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics to teach spelling effectively. Direct and systematic spelling instruction is essential for students' language development.
Spelling inventories are valuable tools for assessing students' understanding of language and identifying areas for targeted instruction.
Spelling can be used as a teaching tool, allowing students to learn from their errors and improve their spelling skills.
Spelling instruction should be aligned with the research and evidence-based practices to ensure its effectiveness.

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