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Reading Rockets: Invented Spelling and Spelling Development

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Reading Rockets: Invented Spelling and Spelling Development

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This is a quick article by Elaine Lutz explaining what invented spelling is and how teachers can utilize it in the classroom.

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Invented Spelling and Spelling Development

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Children progress through certain stages of spelling development. Knowing this progression allows teachers to compel development through their instruction. Find out strategies for doing so in this article, such as promoting the use of invented spelling in the early stages.

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Louisa Moats, from the University of Texas, provides information on the importance of spelling development in reading.

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Let Me Tell You a Secret: Kindergartners Can Write!

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Let Me Tell You a Secret: Kindergartners Can Write!

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This article by VanNess et al. explains how a kindergarten teacher created a writing program using evidence-based writing strategies, including invented spelling.

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Let Me Tell You a Secret Kindergartners Can Write

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Elkonin Boxes: A Literacy Tool for Beginning Readers

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Elkonin Boxes: A Literacy Tool for Beginning Readers

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This Apple app provides a digital Elkonin box and practice for students.

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Elkonin boxes are a great tool for beginning and struggling readers to build phonological awareness by segmenting words into sounds. They help students practice counting the number of phonemes in a word-though this is not always the same number of letters. Mastering this skill orally lays the foundation for both decoding and spelling.

How Elkonin Boxes Work:

1. Listen to the target word.
2. Repeat the word aloud.
3. Say it again, slowly, stretching the word out to hear all the sounds.
4. As you say the word a third time, tap one square for each sound you hear.
5. "Sh" is just one tap because those two letters make one sound!
6. "Bl" is two taps because you can hear both the b and the l in the word.

Have the child count the number of phonemes in the word, not necessarily the number of letters. For example, wish has three phonemes and will use three boxes. /w/, /i/, /sh/

This app breaks goes beyond the basic classroom Elkonin Boxes worksheets by creating multiple levels and 'difficulties' for students to progress through. Words are divided into three levels, progressing from shortest words and easiest sounds to longest words and blended sounds.

The app also adds in two modes: Practice and Quiz. In Practice Mode, kids will always be presented with the correct number of boxes to tap. True beginners can choose to have the correct phoneme (sound) spoken aloud with each tap for them to repeat back. As they progress, they can opt to have a musical tone play instead - challenging them to come up with each phoneme sound on their own.

After practicing, students will be able to test their skills in Quiz Mode. Once again they'll need to come up with the phonemes themselves, but now they'll also need to determine how many sounds they hear on their own. The correct number of boxes to tap won't necessarily be displayed.

Elkonin Boxes are a proven tool for building the basic foundation for early literacy. This app improves on the established worksheet method by eliminating teacher error (it happens to the best of us!), presenting the exercise in a new and exciting way, and introducing new levels and methods to better help children progress. Better yet - it's a way kids can practice both at school and at home!

Version 1.0.1

Fixed landscape weirdness on iPad
Bugs Squashed

Just OK

This app has potential, but I think there should be more boxes than possible sounds in the practice, not only the quizzes. There's a disconnect between the two.

Badly designed!

This app is targeted at developing the ear of pre-readers yet all the feedback is in print that they cannot read! Super Lame. Not even worth a penny.

Elkonin Boxes

Crap! Does not work!

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Compatibility

Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Copyright

© 2015 Ross McNamara

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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‎Elkonin boxes are a great tool for beginning and struggling readers to build phonological awareness by segmenting words into sounds. They help students practice counting the number of phonemes in a word-though this is not always the same number of letters. Mastering this skill orally lays the foun...

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ABCmouse.com provides phonics practice and games that help build spelling skills.

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This app provides spelling tutorials through games. Students learn how to apply spelling and phonics rules instead of simply memorizing them.

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Simplex Spelling Light improves spelling and reading skills in a fun and interactive way using a unique "reverse phonics" approach in combination with contextually relevant spelling rules. It has the same critically acclaimed design and features as the full version of Simplex Spelling HD but comes with its own new high frequency word spelling lists.

This Light version has been made available, so that customers can evaluate the Simplex Spelling software to decide if they want to purchase the full version of Simplex Spelling HD.

Simplex Spelling Light contains over 50 new high frequency English words that do not appear in the full version of Simplex Spelling HD so the two products compliment each other beautifully. It also contains all of the great learning features of the full version of Simplex Spelling HD.

In contrast with many of the current approaches that use flash cards, Simplex Spelling enables the student to build each word. Students gain skills above and beyond the sheer memorization of words, as the informative spelling rule hint feature explains why words are spelled in a particular manner.

Simplex Spelling's unique, immediate letter by letter feedback system is designed with clues and hints that will enable every student to spell each word successfully.

Simplex Spelling enhances understanding in a variety of students as it appeals to audio, visual and tactile learners. It is great tool to have for kids learning to spell, remedial students, or those learning English as a second language.

- "Top Rated" - Balefire Labs.

Recommended for ages 5+.
Note: You can not create your own spelling lists in Simplex Spelling Light.

Features:
- Over 50 high frequency spelling words to help build literacy.
- Spelling words are spoken and used in a sentence to establish context.
- The introduction spelling list seamlessly leads a student through all of the application's features by providing spoken information while having the student spell new words.
- A powerful phonics hint feature sounds out each word and provides a list of possible phonograms for each sound.
- Features a full "reverse phonics" approach that includes sounds made by all the different letter combinations. This is in addition to the basic "single letter" phonics that most applications are limited to.
- Contextually relevant spelling rule hints that help explain "how to spell" English words.
- Unique letter by letter feedback system that provides feedback while the student is in the process of spelling each word.
- Guaranteed success on every word.
- Support for 40 user accounts.
- User stats screen that allows you to see at a glance words that have been mastered and words that require further practice.
- Ability to export & email student reports.
- Remembers each user's position in every list, so that you can immediately resume from where you last left off.
- Supports both upper and lower case letters.
- Supports both alphabetic and QWERTY keyboard layouts.
- Supports both US, UK and Canadian English spelling of words.
- An approach that appeals to audio, visual and tactile learners.

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Version 2.9.4

Updated for iOS 13.1
Fixed screen layout issues on some newer iPhone models running iOS 13.1.

Shows All the Spelling Combinations for a Given Sound

The words chosen for the sample lists seemed haphazard until I looked at the full version. In the full version, they are organized by spelling pattern, which makes more sense.

My 6 year old enjoys this game. He is homeschooled and we just started working on spelling, after getting him reading well enough to read chapter books. He likes being able to use the hint button, which shows him all the different ways to spell a certain sound. When he gets a word right without any mistakes or using a hint, it is added to his "mastered words" list. Each day, I have him practice the "missed words" from his list, so he spends his time working on words he needs help with, instead of having to redo the easy ones over and over.

I just bought the full version and can't wait for him to use it.

High Quality

As a professor of literacy, veteran elementary teacher, and mother of a third grader, I give this app a very high rating. The speech to sound match is excellent which is crucial for learning spelling skills. The support for the learner is well done and follows effective teaching and learning practices, scaffolding support in ways that encourage further learning and reasoning from the student. The app also is straightforward and easy to use for students. Unlike many educational apps, this one is extremely focused on the learning and doesn't have excess fluff that results in limited time spent learning and too much time spent playing around. If students spent 5-10 minutes a day with this app, I am convinced their phonics skills would improve, which is what my daughter will now be doing! :)

Great Spelling App

I love this app. My kids enjoy doing all four levels every day and when they master all the words without the mistakes I plan on purchasing the next level. I also like that when they make a mistake they can click on the hint button and see all the phonograms that make that sound. At the end of the level it will show them a list of words that they missed and give them the opportunity to go through their missed words until they get them correct.

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Compatibility

Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Copyright

© Pyxwise Software Inc.

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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Louisa Moats discusses the importance of teaching alphabetic principle, which can be observed through a student's invented spelling.

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A teacher explains how and why she utilizes invented spelling in the classroom.

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This article from Reading Rockets provides more information about using Elkonin Boxes in the classroom.

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Clay, M. (1993). Reading Recovery: A Guidebook for Teachers in Training. NH: Heinemann.

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Ellis, E. (1997). How Now Brown Cow: Phoneme Awareness Activities.

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. (2000). Report of the National Reading Panel. Teaching children to read: An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction (NIH Publication No. 00-4769). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

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Elkonin boxes build phonological awareness skills by segmenting words into individual sounds, or phonemes. To use Elkonin boxes, a child listens to a word and moves a token into a box for each sound or phoneme. In some cases different colored tokens may be used for consonants and vowels or just for each phoneme in the word.

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This is a template you can use in your classroom!

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This article by Templeton and Morris answers questions teachers have about spelling, including invented spelling.

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This article breaks down where to start with students depending on their grade level and how to best support student spelling development.