Scientific Spelling

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In Scientific Spelling, participants learn how to analyze spelling errors and adjust instruction to target students' specific needs. Instruction for participants includes:

1) Phonemic awareness

2) Reliable spelling patterns and rules, and/or

3) Strategies for learning words with unexpected spelling.

Spelling is the foundation of reading. The skills required to spell a word are the same skills required for quick recognition of a word when reading. Scientific Spelling is an instructional framework emphasizing the importance of instruction in phonological awareness, regular spelling patterns, reliable spelling rules, and irregular words for effective spelling instruction.