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Challenged spellers in middle and high school are hit with a triple whammy-they can’t spell, conventional systems don’t help them, and poor spelling many times inhibits their writing. English teachers face a challenge, too-especially those whose occupation is not to instruct spelling. This book changes that. It offers teachers ways to discern students’ troubles within the context of writing and the suitable systems to rectify them in regular English classrooms.
The book is the result of the four-year collaboration of former secondary teacher Rebecca Bowers Sipe, two middle and two high school teachers, and their students. Based on literacy histories, placement inventories, visual memory tests, and analyses of student writing, their book:
- offers a elaborate look at the literacy journeys of challenged spellers through student work, vignettes, and interviews
- describes four categories of challenged spellers and their kinship with overall literacy investment
- identifies the pitfalls of “too little, too shallow, too fast” practices, including intimate but inefficient lists and tests
- expands basic spelling noesis within the constraints of the regular English curriculum
- steps inside the classrooms of these teacher-researchers as they put their systems into practice
- includes tools, resources, and other materials for prompt use in teaching.
In addition, the book provides ideas and cautions for addressing spelling at the classroom, school, and district levels, plus step-by-step plans for supporting departmental- and school-based discussions in regards to spelling instruction.
Review“Rebecca Sipe, together with Jennifer, Dawn, Tracy, and Karen – unbelievable teachers, all – provide an encouraging, supportive, practical, and downright inspiring resource. . . . Educators will recognize their own struggles with spelling instruction as they become conscious of how motivating and perhaps gratifying spelling may be–while seeing with new clear or deep perception through the eyes of adolescents for whom spelling is not trivial.”–Shane Templeton, Ph.D., Foundation Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, U of Nevada, Reno
About the AuthorRebecca Bowers Sipe teaches writing and methods courses at Eastern Michigan University where she is Codirector of the Eastern Michigan Writing Project. A former secondary teacher, she coordinated the K-12 English/Language Arts Program for the Anchorage School District in Alaska for a heap of years. She is presently the Chair of the Secondary Section of the National Council of Teachers of English, a usual presenter at state and national conferences, and contributor to professional journals. Her exploration interests focus on supporting the growth of young writers with particular attention to those who struggle.
Tracy Rosewarne teaches at Community High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As a teacher advisor with the Eastern Michigan Writing Project, she often times engages in professional and curriculum development projects as well as in teacher research. She contributed to They Still Can’t Spell as well as some other articles in professional journals
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