[senco-forum] spelling using letter names

I always taught children to spell using letter names. To me it seemed

Michael Thomson, of East Court School, wrote about Simultaneous Oral
Spelling in Dyslexia A Teaching Handbook.  He notes that saying either the
letter names or the sounds aloud helps the mapping of sound to symbol and
reinforces sequential letter combinations (2nd edn p141).

Imaging has shown that a visual area at the back of the brain and a sound
area at the front are involved in literacy tasks (one way for decoding, the
other way for encoding).  Dyslexia tends to be a disconnection between the
two areas so the more you can activate the brain to
create/activate/strengthen that connection the better.

Postcard sized!

Philippa

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Jean Dowding <jeanld at fish.co.uk> wrote:

> I always taught children to spell using letter names.  To me it seemed
> rather more logical to use the names as you are spelling out each letter
> of the alphabet that is included in a particular word, rather than
> thinking about the sound that groups of letters make.  It is also easier
> to think up and use mnemonics or silly rhymes/sentences to help retention
> when the letter names are used.
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> I hope that that is small enough for a postcard and that it helps.  I'm
> sur there's a scholarly reason why it works - I just did it because it did
> work!
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> Regards
>
> Jean
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> > A colleague told me today that one of our Ed Psychs had found out that a
> > couple of the (Junior) pupils she was assessing fared much better when
> > they were asked to spell words using their letter names rather than
> their
> > letter sounds.
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> > What does this point to/mean/indicate - answers on a small postcard
> > please, words of fewer than 2 syllables would help.
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> > Mystified.
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