Spelling and Vocabulary Acquisition Tips

This will be a thread for spelling and vocabulary tips for middle and high school students.

Came across this presentation - ideas for improving spelling errors and vocabulary building in dyslexic students that takes into account both visual and auditory processing, and memory routes

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Permalink Reply by dhfl143 on May 30, 2009 at 4:19am

Thank you for those excellent suggestions.

Permalink Reply by Lyndy Latta on June 10, 2009 at 10:38am

All of the above certainly resonated. Clearly, you've incorporated much of this in your new "Visual Spelling" book, which I'm looking forward to exploring with my son (age 11). One of our focuses or spelling has been homophones (homonyms) since most spell checkers do not deal with those very effectively . . . I noticed the sub-title of your book is "Homonyms: Book 1." Can I take that to mean that you're planning on additional book(s) covering more advanced homonyms? (Hope! Hope!)

Permalink Reply by Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide on June 10, 2009 at 6:09pm

Hi Lyndy,

Yes we're working on Book 2. Our artist friend has been very busy, but you're great encouragement...

Another tip is to use mnemonics to group in families. Like -OR (calculator, actor, senior etc.) vs. -ER (teacher, computer, sister, etc.) Put them all on one picture or into one story...

Lyndy Latta said:

All of the above certainly resonated. Clearly, you've incorporated much of this in your new "Visual Spelling" book, which I'm looking forward to exploring with my son (age 11). One of our focuses or spelling has been homophones (homonyms) since most spell checkers do not deal with those very effectively . . . I noticed the sub-title of your book is "Homonyms: Book 1." Can I take that to mean that you're planning on additional book(s) covering more advanced homonyms? (Hope! Hope!)

Permalink Reply by Kathy Weinert on July 2, 2009 at 10:22am