The focus for the week 9th - 13th November was place on the importance of spelling in writing and how writing develops.

    Spelling is important because it allows children to use their phonemic awareness to build their words. Spelling helps to have good communication in the writing. The reader would be able to read the piece without any distractions. Spelling also helps with comprehension skills. If words are spelt correctly the readers would be able to understand the piece. Also, in everything you write you use words and one must know how to spell the words correctly. As a teacher in training I would take to my classroom “The stages of Spelling Development.” This would help to develop students spelling in the classroom to transform them into good writers. Utilizing the stages into the classroom will help students to reach the correct stage of spelling and allow them to be strategic writers. Spelling should be taught for students who are at the different stages of spelling. For example Teachers may teach alphabet knowledge, letter-sound correspondences, the concept of "wordiness," and left-to-right directionality. Students might be introduced in the context of writing, to word families, spelling patterns, phonics, and word structures Teachers can encourage purposeful writing.

        Writing is the basis of anything. It is used to judge one’s knowledge and work throughout any stage of their life. If one cannot write they would not be assessed properly. After reading the article I can put how writing develops in my classroom. By assessing what students are able to do and incorporate activities that would help to improve their writing. As the child develops their literacy skills they are developing their writing skills. The article suggests that writing should that the different stages that children go through to learn to write should be taught differently. For instance in the scribble stage students are learning how to hold the crayons and pencils, they would not be holding them correctly, but they would be scribbling. Letter-like forms and shapes, shapes are used to convey meaning using markers, pencils etc. Upon reentering the classroom I would be able to identify where students are with their writing and gradually incorporate this knowledge for students to effectively move through the development. Through each stage the teacher would use other activities or tools to have students master writing skills. It is important to know the stages of writing development as it would help the teacher to move students effectively through each stage.

https://www.readingrockets.org/article/how-writing-develops

https://www.readingrockets.org/article/invented-spelling-and-spelling-development

R.Hazel