Its important that the students who look to be in Kindergarten, focus on writing and not spelling. If they become obsessed with spelling correctly they will never complete the task, which is to write. The spelling will come in later or a different lesson. Writing workshop focuses on the writing only. Its helps students build the skill and its helps with reading.
They need to learn the link between reading and writing. Children need to start writing early to develop writing fluency and not to be afraid of writing or think that is difficult task. Sleeping is spelled with short e and needs to be corrected,
Spelling the words as the students spelled them is a teaching strategy. Maybe she is modeling that when they do a rough draft, they don't worry about their spelling. When they revise, maybe they go back and spell check. This might be a expectation in her classroom for workshop.
Thank you so much for this wonderful video! I am a teacher in a Reception class in the UK and really loved the enthusiasm you created in your environment. I can not wait to try this tomorrow!! :)
This way of spelling words is called inventive spellings. Inventive spellings are spelled the way the word sounds. During K-2 level, teachers don't make them memorize words with conventional spellings, as this stops the child from writing as they get stuck in 'if the word is spelled write or wrong', that's where their thought process stops. If you know about the sight words they are not spelled incorrectly while they are writing, they are given the charts or listing of those words to copy from. They all learn the correct spellings in higher grade, and that's for sure. 'Night' is a big word for them, how do you expect them to write the 'g 'sound which comes in the middle and explain that to them. These are all the strategies taught slowly and gradually with giving meaning to them.
As a teacher it is best to model the correct spelling. If the kids spell on their own, yes they spell phonectically so they understand what they are reading but I don't think the teacher should model this.
Thanks for a class! There is one question. After the first writer's workshop, are you gonna prompt kids to correct spellings ? Is there any special reason why a teacher didn't help them recognize the sound letter relationship for correct spelling?
She is teaching English as second language using sounds for word association. As graders progress in reading phonetically, she will teach the correct spelling next
They are gaining a lot more than spelling. They could correct their spelling later in their reading. This is for writing and fluency is more important than accuracy. Genius.
I think as teachers we all have our own styles, philosophies and beliefs. The most important thing to remember is are we being flexible and adaptive to each individual child's own learning style and developmental needs, strengths and interests? Personally I wouldn't spell the words incorrectly, however I wouldn't push the children to write the words correctly on their own. We can still model correct spelling without being judgmental and making them feel "less smart". As long as we go with the child's lead, they will learn the correct spelling on their own. Plus we have one of the best tools of all, peer modeling. If they don't learn from you, their peers will also be there to support and facilitate their learning as well.
I really like the way how you teach to your kids me as well am a teacher but i wanted to say good job with the spanish becpuse as well i know its hard to ecplain with a second person laguague good job keep doing the viedos.
She is teaching exactly what research shows is the best strategy for teaching writing at this age. She is teaching the kids to listen to the sounds they hear and write the letter that matches the sound. Phonics. If you are criticizing her for not spelling correctly, you know absolutely nothing about child development, or the research behind teaching young students.
Andrea Gunter i think it will better and helpful to you if you go do the research about teaching early children urself. It will help u to understand better on the subject matter.
I have to disagree with you because that is NOT what research says. According to researchers, teachers are supposed to model the correct way (whether is writing or reading). Yes, students are expected to misspelled words at this age because they write phonetically (but thats during their independence practice). I have been teaching K for 7 years and I never correct my students because I want them to feel confident. I collect writing samples weekly and I model the skills they need to work on.
A student of mine used this video in writing a response to this article. Behymer, A. (2003), Kindergarten writing workshop. The Reading Teacher, 57(1), 85-88. Also a good video for those teaching students who speak and write in Spanish as well as English.
I teach my students this way because they are at such a beginner level for writing steps. Why bog them down with too many rules? Writing phonetically allows them to relax and let the thoughts flow without slowing down the thinking process. Work on grammar corrections=lost of train of thought. I call it attention span of a fly (jokingly). I see at this age they need to handle a few rules for writing at a time to master the process of getting thoughts onto paper.
but why write words if the word is misspelled? If their attention span is too short to appreciate the spelling of the words, then why write the words? Just because they may be writing phonetically doesn't mean the teacher should be writing phonetically....I think.....I'm really confused.
/nit/ would sound different than night. It is in the same word family as pit, kit, sit, fit, etc. Why would you model night as nit? ...if you were doing this I would see if you wrote it as nite because "the e tells the i to say its name". So how are you teaching them "sounding out" is not even correct. However, I did love the mentor text for teaching speech bubbles.
As an long time educator, I truly believe you should NEVER teach students misspelled words. Its hard to unlearned something learned. Teach the right spelling! No exceptions!!
When dealing with kindergarten it is important for them to understand the mechanics of writing. I have 5 year olds that don't know where to begin, how to form a word. The point is to give them confidence in order to help them take risks in writing. I can not, for the life of me, see myself modeling writing to a child that is barely grasping what writing is all about with a million spelling rules when they barely can identify which sounds to include in any given word. I wouldn't leave this type of writing in a word wall, mind you, but if the objective is to model writing as such, I feel it is the best way to build writer confidence in little ones.
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Not correcting students on all their spelling and grammar mistakes at this age makes sense. But kids don't need to see modeling of how to spell words incorrectly, they can spell words wrong all on their own, I'm certain. :)
I do not understand why you would model incorrect spelling within the writing process. Encouraging them to assist was awesome but deliberately choosing how to spell incorrectly was a little unproductive
In Kindergarten they don't focus on spelling. They are focusing on the sound and making sure that sound matches the letter they hear. Trust me, the spelling falls into place.
Research has found that kids become better spellers in the long run if they start using inventive spelling. It gives them more practice with putting letters and sounds together. Later, they will learn more complex combinations of letters used in creating sounds.
When you are teaching to younger students who have not learned all the phonics rules, you teach them to write what they hear. These students look like 1st graders and they would not know double vowels sounds and such just yet. As they learn more sounds, then you expect them to use it. Until then they write what they hear.
So many hav alredy talkd about this, but the introduction to riting allows for misspelling of words because lik so many hav sed, its appropriate to spell it as it sounds because the spelling of such words is a latur skill. Yes, misspelling of words like I just used in the previous sentences are quite annoying when we see them, but bogging kindergarten age students with so much information at once is just too much. The emphasis of this lesson is the process of writing, not correct spelling and grammar. This will come later on.
Specific professional journal articles?...no, sorry, nothing handy at the moment. However, if you look into it, you will find that almost all information related to teaching students at the pre-emergent and emergent stages of literacy development highlights the importance of teaching phonics and phonemic awareness. Studies also show that giving students ample opportunities to write using invented spelling enhances youngsters' awareness of that letter/sound relationship, which, in turn is beneficial to their reading development. Modeling that writing process is vital to the success of the young reader/writer.
Loved the mini lesson! Great teacher! I understand that the teacher is modeling how to spell by sounding out the letters but she should use correct spelling. It's ok for the kids not to have correct spelling. Not the teacher. Never.
I guess she hasnt taught the kids sounds like ight and ll or the silent e. Or maybe those are the closest ones to their native language. Idk spanish haha Writing and generating ideas were the focus anyway, not spelling.
This is just bad. You should never teach kids misspelled words. Kids pick up things really well and they WILL copy it. I know it shouldn't be the top priority when you check their work but YOU as a teacher shouldn't enforce that jeez.
Kids can obsess over things like spelling and get discouraged over writing all together. Also, a good speller doesn't make a good writer, their is so much more to it.
Why isn't 'said' spelled 'sed' rather than 'said?' That is the problem with not using regular spelling for words. It's too arbitrary! I think it's a fail!
