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Enhance Your Spelling Skills: Spelling Bank Workshop with Kat Kinsella

Join us for the Spelling Bank Workshop led by Kat Kinsella on May 8, 2012. Participants will engage in interactive learning designed to improve spelling techniques. To prepare, access the study materials on G-Drive, navigate to Katrina Kinsella's folder, and locate the Spelling section in OneNote. After reviewing the resources, close your laptop and watch the instructional video for further insight. Don’t forget to answer the questions provided at the end. This workshop is suitable for 3 x FNDs Level 4 classes.

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Enhance Your Spelling Skills: Spelling Bank Workshop with Kat Kinsella

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  1. Spelling Bank Workshop

    SWC, May 8th 2012 Kat Kinsella While waiting, please open G-driveStudy Materials: Katrina Kinsella Spelling OneNote THEN CLOSE YOUR LAPTOP
  2. Watch this & answer question at end http://www.screenr.com/q018
  3. 3 x FNDs Level 4 classes did this lesson. How quickly did the classes answer the question? When we watched it again, did they enjoy it? When we watched another one, were they quicker at answering? Did the students remember the lesson? The next day? 5 weeks later?
  4. Spelling lesson request Reaction Research Made materials Trialed them Fresh blood ideas
  5. Research on Arabic Learners My thoughts Student Feedback Test spelling Don’t teach spelling Agreed Really want spelling “rules” Agreed Where am I going to get the time? Especially for ‘back to basics’? Can I remember the “rules?”
  6. Research on Arabic Learners Student Feedback Need segmentation/syllable attention KA-- TRI --NA Need to learn connections between spelling, pronunciation and rhythm Need to work on vowel blindness and deafness Need to work on Right letter, wrong place (RLWP) Different learning styles need attention (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Musical, logical…..) Know there’s a problem They don’t know what the problem is Agreed
  7. My thoughts Student Feedback YL methods Traditional Micro-lessons Self-access Guided Self-discovery TRAINING Love YL methods Want to teach siblings/children
  8. Resources Nice essay with problems, teachers’ tips on problems for Arabic Learners: http://www.elgweb.net/spelling_article.html Excellent research with some ideas: http://marifa.hct.ac.ae/files/2011/07/Spelling-it-out-Accounting-for-Spelling-Difficulties-for-Arab-Learners-of-English.pdf
  9. Micro-lessons Mnemonics (silly ways to remember spellings) Simple, repetitive, memorable http://screenr.com/o018 http://www.screenr.com/yIp8 Sounds & Spellings- New English File http://www.screenr.com/sPp8 Spelling Patterns (not rules) http://www.screenr.com/o3p8 YL methods E.g. finger & brain imprinting
  10. Challenge Create micro-lessons or give ideas for micro-lessons Teaching material not Practice material Short & simple Effective/Memorable Self-access Where possible, guided discovery Mnemonics Sounds & Spelling Spelling Patterns (not rules) Make a spelling bank-on and offline
  11. Resources Any media that can work off and online (and across platforms for the iPad revolution) Online resources can be made using screenr or camtasia Screen R For www.screenr.com  sign in with facebook, twitter, yahoo or gmail.  Check out Sean Dowling’s instructional vid:  http://shc-edtech.hct.ac.ae/pln/edtechpd/multimedia-2/working-with-video/activity2/ If screenr won’t open, download Firefox or Google Chrome : http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/  or https://www.google.com/chrome Alternatives to ScreenR, such as Camtasia are here: http://alternativeto.net/software/screenr/ Record and store materials here: GDRIVE\Student Folders\Study Materials\Katrina Kinsella\Spelling Bank- Working OneNote\Spelling
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