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Implementing The Code Spelling Programme (Science of Reading) 29.01.21

By Anonymous

Full presentation by Caroline Morrit

Background

  • Reading and writing are reciprocal processes. 
  • Reading and the spelling part of writing rely on phonological awareness. 
  • Spelling involves encoding sounds and reading involves decoding sounds. 
  • A cohesive approach best supports students' overall literacy development...or students are best supported to learn if spelling is taught explicitly.  

Key Terms
Phonology (spoken) - The organisation of speech sounds into words.
Orthology (written) - The written spelling system of language.
Morphology - The structure of words and parts of words - affixes and bases.
Phonological awareness - An awareness of the sound structure of spoken words.  It includes words in sentences, syllables, rhyme, alliteration and phonemic awareness.
Phonemic Awareness - The ability to isolate, identify, blend, segment and manipulate individual phonemes in words.
Phoneme - A phoneme is the smallest unit of speech in a word.  The word cat has 3 phonemes c-a-t.
Grapheme - A grapheme is a letter or combination of letters that represent a phoneme.  Can be one, two, three or four letters eg a, ie, igh, eigh.
Segment phonemes - To separate phonemes in words eg ship sh-i-p.
Blend phonemes - To slide individual sounds together to pronounce a word eg s-t-e-p blended together reads step.
Digraph - two letters that together spell a single speech sound (sh, ch, th, ng, ck, ph, wh)
Trigraph - three letters that together spell a single speech sound eg. igh, dge, tch
CCVC/CVCC/Consonant Cluster -  Groups of two or three letters at the beginning or end of syllables that keep their own sounds eg. strap s-t-r,frog f-r, best s-t
Diphthong - A diphthong is a sound formed by the combination of two adjacent vowels in a single syllable, the two sounds glide together to form a sound eg. oi, oy, ou

Phonemes: there are 44 phonemes in English. A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound.


How will we teach spelling?
Using The Code (Liz Kane Literacy Specialist). It provides explicit instruction of sounds and spelling combinations to be taught, and word families for those sounds. e.g. can/man/map for the short a etc.
Our teaching will involve testing children, grouping according to needs, explicit daily lessons.

The Lesson Structure (Daily)
1. Review 2. Explicit teaching. 3. Write the new spelling rule or programme - take note / correct letter formation. 4. Decode (read) words in isolation containing the rule or pattern. 5. Encode (spell) words from the code lists. 6. Dictation



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