Spelling/Writing

Cloze - An instructional technique which assists children at all levels in reading for meaning and making use of contextual clues to make meaningful and grammatically correct word substitutions.  Click here to download Word document

Copy, Cover, Compare - Click here to download Word document

Corrective Spelling Through Morphographs - This method was designed to teach spelling skills, including a systematic procedure for the analysis of words, to students in grade 4 to 12.  Click here to download Word document

Dialogue Journals - Dialogue journals help children of all ages develop a natural awareness of the communicative purpose of reading and writing as they participate in written "conversations" with the teacher over an extended period of time.  Click here to download Word document

Direct Spelling Instruction - This formal program is aimed at increasing the repertoire of correctly spelled words for students in grade 2 to 8.  Click here to download Word document

Graphic Organizers - A technique using different types of visual frames to represent and organize learning information. Graphic organizers help to sort out and expand thinking skills and thought processes.  Click here to download Word document

Handwriting Without Tears - Click here to download Word document

Jolly Phonics - This program was designed to teach children in grades kindergarten through 2 how to read, write, and spell using a systematic multisensory phonics approach.   Click here to download Word document

Kerrigan's Integrated Method - This method is used to develop the grade 7 through
university student's ability to produce well written themes. The emphases are on theme and topic sentences, paragraph formation, and the use of transitional phrases in the second and
third sentences to link them to preceding paragraphs.  Click here to download Word document

Kidspiration - Click here to download Word document

Kurzweil 3000 - A text-to-speech (TTS) software program that allows text to be scanned onto the computer and then converted into speech, providing students with the tools they need to improve their reading speed and comprehension, and features that allow them to learn and study independently.  Click here to download Word document

Mnemonic Devices as Writing Tools (MDWT) - MDWTassist students to remember strategies used in the organization and editing of written work.  Click here to download Word document

Orton Gillingham Approach - This technique was developed to improve spelling in children in grade 2 to 12 through the association of seeing how words look, hearing how they sound, and feeling how words are produced.  Click here to download Word document

Paragraph Writing - Paragraph writing is a succinct five sentence plan to assist students in grade 4 to high school produce a paragraph.  Click here to download Word document

Patterned Writing - Pattern writing enables students at all levels to model their writing on a presented literary work or syntactical style.  It provides opportunities for extensions of personal writing.  Click here to download Word document

Process Writing - Process Writing was designed to encourage children at all levels to communicate their own written messages while simultaneously developing their own literacy skills in speaking and reading.  Click here to download Word document

Self-Correction Spelling Strategies -  This method of teaching spelling encourages students in grade two and beyond to check and correct their own work on a daily basis. The emphasis is on the orthography of letters and the goal is to improve spelling to a level of mastery.  Click here to download Word document

Self-Regulated Strategy Developmenty (SRSD) -  SRSD is designed to teach strategies for accomplishing writing tasks as well as procedures for regulating these strategies to students in grades 4 through 8.  Click here to download Word document

Semantic Webbing - Semantic Webbing helps students at all levels organize information and relationships in a visual display.  It assists in comprehension and concept attainment and in setting of purpose for reading through prediction.  Click here to download Word document

Survey, Question, Read, (w)Rite, Review (SQ3R) - SQ3R is a five step methods devised by Robinson (1961) to assist students in Grade 7 and up in reading a chapter or article for comprehension or study purposes.  Click here to download Word document

WordQ (Cue) - Click here to download Word document

Writing to Read 2000 (WTR 2000) - WTR 2000 is a computer-based instructional system designed to introduce children in grades kindergarten through 4 to reading and writing .  Click here to download Word document

WYNN2 - A text-to-speech software tool designed for students with reading and writing difficulties which functions as a word processing and studying tool that allows students the opportunity to transform the written word into spoken language.   Click here to download Word document