Spelling – a strategic approach – student workbook (digital download)

by Lee Kindler and Jan Hagston

This workbook accompanies the Spelling – A Strategic Approach (teacher resource).

Learners bring a range of existing knowledge and experience to learning situations. These resources, rather than providing a complete A-Z spelling program, offer a range of tools learners can draw on to spell new words or those they are finding difficult.  It aims to help students become linguistic inquirers with the spelling knowledge to draw on to help them tackle new and difficult words.

It provides students with straight forward explanations about different types of spelling knowledge. The explanations are backed up with lots of examples, diagrams and other details, which help students to become linguistic inquirers. This book focusses on strategies that students can use to apply their spelling knowledge, giving them the tools to tackle words that they are finding difficult.

The workbook contains lots of activities for students to complete that encourage them to discover features of words and practice strategies for applying the different spelling knowledges.

It is also available in hard copy.