Facilitating Spelling &WritingDevelopment

In this session

• Development for Handwriting• Promote early writing skills• Writing skills• Spelling skills

Introduction

(Kindergarten phonics activities for writing) 3.39

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey1ovOFXwz

Problems face by teachers

• In your group…• Brainstorm “problems teachers face each day in teaching writing”.

Master themechanics ofwriting

Learn to write atword, phrase, andsentence levels

Handwriting

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Pre-WritingBody Stability– Motor Development proceeds from head to toe and from the trunk to the extremities (hands and feet).– Control of body moves from head and neck to the shoulders, the trunk, and the hips and legs.– It also develops first from the trunk and then outward.– The joints of the body need to be stable before the hands can be free to focus on specific skilled fine motor tasks.

Fine Motor Skills– When a certain amount of body stability has developed, the hands and fingers begin to work on movements of dexterity andisolation as well as on different kinds of grasp.– Hand dominance development– Eye-hand coordination

Beginning Stage of Handwriting Development

Major line patterns inalphabet writing

These lines are the foundation lines for all 26 alphabets and number 0-9

Ways to practice• What do you know of ways to practice letter recognition and

handwriting?• Break into a group of 6/7• Come up with as many ideas as possible• You have 5 minutes

Writingvs.

• Finger/Hand• Arms• Body• Multiple bodies

• Finger-painting• Pencil• Pen• Paintbrush• play dough• Shaving Cream• Mini-Whiteboard /chalkboard

Gross-Motor Fine-Motor

Teaching handwriting

Concerning:– Poor letter formation– Letter sizes– Incorrect use of upper- and lower- cases letters– Space– Alignment– Slant– Fluency/Speed– Reversal

Reversals

• Teachers should recognize the following:– Reversals are common before the age of six or seven.– A few students continue to reverse numbers and letters after the age of seven and may need direct intervention techniques.

Components of Handwriting

• Legibility– Legibility is the most important goal of handwritinginstruction, and incorrect letter formation is the mostfrequent interference.• Fluent writing– Just as not knowing how to read words fluentlyimpairs reading comprehension, inadequate fluency inwriting letters and words impairs written expressionand the quality of written responses (Spear-Swerling, 2006).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIxUtwO29r8 (Teaching proper pencil grip) 2.47

Tools for improving handwriting quality

• Slant• Weighted pencil/pen• Pencil gripper• Raised-line paper• Different form or shape pencil

Teaching Writing

• As important as teaching reading• The key to teaching writing is to give students as many opportunity to write as possible.“Practice makes Perfect”• Just like reading comprehension, writing relies on background knowledge to model how you think while you write

Remember

• A child may not have the ability to write, but s/he sure has stories to tell and want to express• Our role is to help support them so they get to tell their stories

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iboqoB7Z4F8 (Common Core Writing Kindergarten Lesson) 45.57

Giving opportunity

• Days of the week• Daily reflection or writing autopsy• Cloze writing• Poem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2uhcUAIhBE (The Better Way to Teach Kids to Write) 4.51

Guided Writing

• Small group instruction• Teacher guiding student through the writingprocess• Even with children who have limited vocabularycan create a story• Allow the student to write what they can. Evenwith inventive spelling• Error Analysis