Learning to spell difficult words: why look, cover, write and check is not enough
✍ Scribed by Ann Cooke
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 32 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1076-9242
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✦ Synopsis
Books on the teaching of spelling often argue that irregular words should be learnt by a Look, Cover, Write, Check method. In this article it is suggested that this method seems questionable for several reasons: it seems to disregard the way that the English writing system operates; it does not consider the multisensory nature of language functioning; it ignores the particular difficulties of dyslexic learners. The author discusses the multisensory approaches to learning developed by Fernald, Orton and others and considers why these are more suitable for dyslexic children. Other methods for learning irregular spellings are briefly reviewed.