Support for Spelling
- Publication date:
- Feb 2010
- DCSF ref:
- 01109-2009PDF-EN-01
- Audience:
- Headteacher, Leading teacher, National Strategies consultant, Teacher
- Function:
- Guidance, Initial teacher training (ITT), Teaching and learning
- Format:
- Booklet, Key document
The second edition of Support for Spelling offers support for teachers wanting their pupils to become fluent and effective writers; accurate spelling is a means to that end. Competent spellers need to spend less time and energy in thinking about spelling to enable them to channel their time and energy into the skills of composition, sentence structure and precise word choice.
This publication may be available to order from:
- This publication is only available for download.
Comments
In this section
- Analysis: Key Stage 2 English National Curriculum tests 2006
- Aspects of narrative: Story structure
- ICT applications in Literacy
- Jake and Bones – Additional resources
- Leading improvement using the Primary Framework: Quality first teaching
- Leading improvement using the Primary Framework: The CPD programme
- Primary framework: Non-fiction – explanatory texts
- Pupil writing targets in literacy: Years 2–4
- Slideshow on the approach of one teacher to planning literacy
- Storymodeller
- Support for Spelling
- Support for writing, Fiction: Narrative – science fiction
- Wider reading: Discussion sheet 1 – Promoting books
- Wider reading: Discussion sheet 4 – Making the links with fathers
- Year 3 Non-fiction Unit 3 – Information texts
- Year 3 Poetry Unit 1 – Poems to perform
Learning objectives
See also
- Headteachers' and senior leaders' continuing professional development (CPD)
- Introduction to Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP)
- Overcoming barriers in mathematics – Helping children move from level 1 to level 2
- Overcoming barriers in mathematics – helping children move from level 4 to level 5
- Securing level 3 in mathematics
- Securing level 4 in mathematics
Tenderhearts 3.37 pm, 7th June 2009
great work. wish i had signed on 7 years ago.
Flabbergasted 1.15 am, 21st June 2009
Page 106 of this document states, "The i before e except after c rule is not worth teaching. It applies only to words in which the ie or ei stands for a clear /ee/ sound and unless this is known, words such as sufficient, veil and their look like exceptions."
Actually, the rule is "i before e except after c or sounding like a as in weigh and neigh", so veil and their ARE exceptions. Sufficient, is also an exception, in that ent is a suffix. To discourage the use of the rule because you think it's confusing, or don't personally like it, or whatever is your prerogative, but such shoddy scholarship in a work supposedly aimed at educators does not reflect well upon you.
andrea.brudy 12.32 pm, 3rd September 2009
The pack contains a CD, but you cannot order it??
jessphill 2.09 pm, 3rd September 2009
It would be so useful if we could order this folder as a hard copy. It would be so much more accessible for staff to refer to. It has clearly been designed to be used this way. Are there any plans to allow us to order ? The sooner the better please!
The National Strategies 12.14 pm, 7th September 2009
This publication is now available to order using either the 'Order this publication online' link or DCSF Publications contact information.
blossom21 8.11 pm, 24th September 2009
I have tried to order this publication today 24th Sept. and have been told I am not authorised to do so. As a teacher who would like to use it I find this rather odd. Who is authorised to order it?
The National Strategies 8.24 am, 5th October 2009
Support for Spelling is currently out of stock. Also, it has a restricted allocation per school, for hard copy orders. The school account/URN will need to be quoted in the Prolog order and copies will be despatched to the school. If the school has exceeded its allocation of hard copy then the web download is is openly available. Hope this helps.
spyder 11.56 am, 24th November 2009
Waste of time phoning. Booklet out of stock, orders can't be taken so I was advised to keep phoning back every week or two. Yeah, I'll get my PA onto it.
bluelias 7.38 pm, 8th January 2010
This is ok -but why only available as an a PDF file - it takes AGES scrolling backwards and forwards to find the relevant information (and for some reason, if you try to copy several pages, it doesn't work - tables seem to mess it up, so it is a real palaver just to get the relevant information for one term. Please can this be made available in a more user-friendly format: by year group and so that you can download one term's block at a time (or even a half-term's block). It's not as if you can then teach directly from that anyway - you still need to block out the work for each lesson. Very tedious.
However, that apart, the actual content is good.
The National Strategies 4.37 pm, 18th January 2010
This is a publication so is only available as a PDF. A Word version does not exist.
bluelias 7.40 pm, 8th January 2010
And - I meant to add - why didn't support for spelling appear when I stepped through from Literacy on this site - instead I got loads of other things about spelling, but not this document. Navigation round the strategy information is really pretty difficult. Google is usually much quicker, which really seems wrong.
The National Strategies 4.38 pm, 18th January 2010
The Support for Spelling publication has now been added to the primary>literacy subject area>Curriculum>Spelling area so should be easier to find by navigating through the site.
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