Teaching Reading and Writing: The Developmental Approach [rental Edition]

"Learning to read and spell words in English involves learning about the logic of word structure at the level of sound and at the level of meaning. We'll briefly examine the logic at the level of meaning here, and in Chapter 2 address this level more deeply as well as the logic at the level of sound. Subsequent chapters will provide support in how we teach about these levels to students at different developmental levels. Recall from the previous section how the structure of words gives important clues to their meaning. Among words that are related in meaning there is a strong visual connection, captured in the spelling of the related words. This relationship is referred to as the spelling-meaning connection: "Words that are related in meaning are often related in spelling as well, despite ...