Erratic Spelling and the ESOL Learner Liz Shapiro

Erratic Speller and ESOL Your aim

• My Aim… Individualised Spelling Program

Brain Gym®

Who?

Memory Techniques !! !!

Assessments Personal History –

Tests Starting Point….. Detective work

? ??? Processing Strengths/Weaknesses Audio Visual Motor L1 Individualised Spelling Program Look Say Cover Write Check

ACTION !

Erratic spelling and ESOL Learner ETAI 2010 Liz Shapiro Strengths/Weaknesses Technology Audio Visual Motor L1 How to support? Computer Chun king Chun king Cursive writing Awareness Processor Rhythm Colour Touch typing Meaning Rhyme Pattern Wall writing Stress Plastic

Letters Rug writing

Song Clay Brain Gym® Plastic letters Clay Feel Word Building /Word families

Individualised Spelling Program Look Say Cover Write Check (Max.10 words per week Look say cover write check new words every day. At the end of the week,the tutor will use them in a dictation to

check for student’s automaticity and previous words will be reviewed.)

ACTION !

Assessments Assessment Purpose of Test Requirements

Spelling Error Analysis from Dictation

To identify spelling errors, i.e. visual, auditory processing and motor integration problems

Spelling from a dictation taken from Cynthia Klein selections, at appropriate level to generate at least 26 errors

Free Writing Analysis Including Spelling Error Analysis

To identify the learner’s spelling strengths and weaknesses in addition to planning, grammar, vocabulary, proof reading and L1 interference etc

Produce 100 words of free writing on a topic relevant to the student.

Digit Memory Test

To assess short term auditory memory for sequences

Repeat sets of digits forward and then in reverse

Reading Miscue Analysis

• To identify strategies used by the learner when reading extended text

• To check on reading comprehension and speed

Read aloud text from Cynthia Klein selection of appropriate level to produce 20 – 25 miscues

Perin Spoonerism Task

To identify phonological processing problems relating to segmentation and blending

Transpose initial sounds of a pair of words i.e. forename and surname

Single word reading tests: • Non words • Regular long words • Irregular words

To test strengths and weaknesses: • phonological • auditory phonological • visual

Read aloud lists of non-words, regular, irregular and non-words

Test for Visual Stress Syndrome

To identify visual stress by preferred coloured overlay

View words through different coloured overlay and identify

preference Erratic Spellor and the ESOL learner ETAI 2010 Liz Shapiro

Source of Assessments

Dyslexia Action:

Digit Memory Test, Turner and Ridsdale 2003 The Non Word Decoding Test, Turner 2003 Perin Spoonerism Task, Perin 2001 (revised) Klein, C. 2003 Diagnosing Dyslexia (2nd edition), The Basic Skills Agency:

Methodology and materials for miscue, spelling error, free writing analysis, and single word reading tests Sunderland, Klein, Savinson, Partridge, Dyslexia and the Bilingual Learner 1997:

Dictation text and reading text Nelson, H.

Regular Long Word Reading Test/ New Adult Reading Test (NART)

Swabey, A. LLLU

Irregular Word Reading Test Wilkins, A. Prof. at University of Essex

Wilkins Test for Visual Stress Syndrome (Visual Dyslexia) www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/overlays/ www.ioosales.co.uk

BIBLIOGRAPHY – Erratic Spelling and the ESOL Learner ETAI 2010 Liz Shapiro Davis, R. D. with Braun, E. M. 1997 The Gift of Dyslexia, Souvenir Press

Dennison, P.E. & G. E. 2010 (USA) Brain Gym Teachers’ Edition, Hearts at Play, Inc., a division of Edu-Kinesthetics, USA

Klein, C. and Millar, R. 1990 Unscrambling Spelling, Hodder & Stoughton

Klein, C. 1993 Diagnosing Dyslexia, The Basic Skills Agency, London

Krupska, M. and Klein, C. 1995 Demystifying Spelling, LLLU, London

Mortimore, T. 2003 Dyslexia and Learning Style, A Practitioner’s Handbook, Whurr Publishers Ltd

Peer, L. and Reid, G. 2000 Multilingualism, Literacy and Dyslexia A Challenge For Educators, David Fulton Publishers

Sassoon, R. and Briem G. S.E. 1993 Teach Yourself Better Handwriting, Hodder & Stoughton

Spiegel, M. and Sunderland, H. 2006 Teaching Basic Literacy to ESOL Learners (A Teachers Guide), LLU+, London

Sunderland, H. Savinson, R. Klein, C. and Partridge, T. 1997 Dyslexia and the Bilingual Learner, London Language and Literacy Unit, London

Hannaford, C. 1995 Smart Moves - Why Learning is Not ALL in Your Head, Great Ocean

Swan, M. and Smith, B. 1987 Learner English – A Teacher’s Guide to Interference and Other Problems, Cambridge University Press, UK

Erratic Spelling and the ESOL Learner ETAI 2010 Liz Shapiro

Useful Resources

• Davies. A and Ritchie, D. 1998 Thrass Picturechart, Thrass (UK) Ltd

• Coloured pens/highlighterpens • Coloured lined paper • Pen grip

www.drawyourworld.com – handwriting

www.worksheetworks.com - cursive handwriting practice

www.excellence.org.uk – a gateway to learning styles approach; skills for life; a framework for understanding dyslexia

www.bdadyslexia.org.uk – Supporting writing with ICT: word processors; talking word processors; spell checkers in word processors; additional onscreen wordbanks and grids; predictive programs; typing and keyboard skills; voice or speech recognition software; portable word processors and writing aids; making web pages, planning software; handwriting.

www.dyslexia-inst.org.uk www.crossboweducation.com coloured overlays www.outsider.co-uk.com www.learningstyles.co.uk www.learning-styles-online.com www.businessballs.com - The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education www.dyslexia-inst.org.uk - The Digit Memory Test