A multi-sensory approach to teaching and learning spelling. Searchlights for Spelling Year 3 Copymasters provides a swift and lively way to teach NLS spelling objectives and model successful spelling strategies.

 

This book is part of a book series called Searchlights For Spelling .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Cambridge University Press .

Pie Corbett is a freelance writer and poet. He was worked as an English Inspector in Gloucestershire, as an OFSTED Inspector, and has run training nationally for the NLS.

This book has the following chapters: Introduction; Scope and sequence chart; Teacher Assessment sheets; can/Do you? sheets; What to do if you don't know how to spell a word; Learning new words; key words; Spelling log sheets; how to help your child with spelling; Cumulative dictation; Termly SATs type tests; Unit 1; Investigate which is the most common way of spelling the 'long' ai phoneme at the end of a word; Unit 2; Sorting words that just add -ing from those that drop the final e; Unit 3; Funny poem cloze procedure; Unit 4; Inventing sentences containing three words plus prefixes; Unit 5; Rewriting a school report by adding or removing prefixes; Unit 6; Collecting and inventing mnemonics; Unit 7; Investigating likely spellings of or words; Unit 8; Adding -er and -est to words; Unit 9; Investigating plurals of wprds that end in o; Unit 10; Making compound words; Unit 11; Solving clues for a crossword that hinges on silent letters; Unit 12; Writing sentences using suffixes -er, -ful, -less; Unit 13; Counting sylllables and looking for words within words; Unit 14; Investigating words that often go together; Unit 15; Finding hidden words; Unit 16; Sorting words with prefixes from those without; Unit 17; Matching prefixes to their meanings; Unit 18; Linking the contracted form to the full form; Additional Unit 1; Generate ant words and sort them by the number of syllables; Additional Unit 2; spelling by analogy; Additional Unit 3; Inventing acrostics as memory aids.