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...