The Spelling Book: Transforming the Teaching of Spelling (Year 6)
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Transform the teaching of spelling to Year 6 students!
In this series of books, Jane Considine reveals her structured, rigorous system to teach spelling. Built on the fundamentals of teaching spelling with strong phonic foundations, The Spelling Book has around 150 pages of activities and guidance that will transform your teaching of spelling, ensuring your pupils become better spellers for life.
By breaking down the learning of spelling with repetitive contextual learning, this book can help teachers fix their work life balance and reduce the need for spelling tests or spelling homework. The activities within the book meet all National Curriculum statutory requirements and objectives while building on them. Suitable for SEND and EAL pupils and for low-attaining/all-attaining levels.
The Spelling Book is structured into weekly activities and investigations, functioning as a framework for lesson planning and resources for children and teachers to refer to. These books for Years 2 – 6 are referential and build on learning from earlier years to prepare pupils for later National Curriculum learning requirements.
Jane Considine is an experienced educational practitioner and author of revolutionary learning resources with over 25 years in literacy consultancy. Jane launched The Training Space in 2004, a place for supporting teachers, parents and pupils in maximising learning for EYFS, KS1 and KS2 students.
“The Spelling Book not only provides an implementable and comprehensive overview of spelling for Primary school senior leaders, but excitingly also provides a system of highly-engaging resources for classroom teachers to use and their pupils to love!” – Andrew Jennings, The Vocabulary Ninja
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Additional information
| Publisher | First Edition (7 Jun. 2021), The Training Space Ltd |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 177 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1907581502 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1907581502 |
| Dimensions | 29.7 x 1.6 x 21 cm |
by Sl Hind
I am a huge fan of the Write stuff and hooked on books and I was keen to get the year 2 spelling book. Unfortunately, it seems to me to be very flawed. It has no cohesion and it jumps from one spelling pattern to another. In week 2 they cover il, /ee/ sound as y, convert incorrect spellings of common exception words. contractions, sorting words into pronunciation of a. I don’t see how this learning will stick if they only do it once in a week. There are no small steps or linked learning. In another week, it asks children to do tasks which they don’t have the prior knowledge to tackle. For example, asking children to convert present tense words into regular and irregular spellings before they have learned how to convert regular words into the past tense and the rules associated with them. I haven’t had the training that goes with this book so I tried listening to the sunday session on Youtube. Jane says that her spelling series is heavily influenced by phonics teaching. I have taught in KS1 for lots of years and have had good quality phonics teaching. For me, good phonics involves following a well structured sequence of lessons with a cohesive curriculum that doesn’t jump around from day to day. There are nice activities and ideas in this book but I wouldn’t choose to follow the lesson sequence in it. Coming in a year where we are recovering from Covid I can’t understand why she would advocate teaching prefixes from the year 3 spelling appendix in year 2. I believe our children need to develop a deep understanding of year 2 rules such as adding ing and ed to words not a shallow understanding of year 2 and year 3 rules.
by Morpheus
I ordered this book last week and have started using it already – the investigative style activities are brilliant and such a good idea to empower the children to explore spelling patterns. It is larger and thicker than I thought it would be and easy to use. It is filled with activities and ideas to support the teaching of spellings effectively. I’m enjoying trialling it during this half term so that I’m prepared to use it at the start of the next school year.
by Carters
This is a fantastic book and is really simple to understand. I love how it is split into weekly activities with a longer spelling activity in week one and then five short activities in week two. This has really inspired me to change the way I teach spelling. This will be a great resource this year especially as I am changing year group and key stage.
by Miss K Delaney
Arrived quickly – excellent service.
Introducing this to my Year 5s in September but I’ve been testing out the structure with my current y4 class. This approach to spelling is a breath of fresh air for teachers. No matter how many tests children do, they don’t build up the skills to apply their knowledge of spelling into their independent work. Jane’s ‘Spelling Books’ completely changes this. It transforms the teaching of spelling. Absolutely amazing.
by KM
I genuinely cannot wait to implement this with my new class in September then roll out to wider school when I can demonstrate how it works. After many years of teaching (and saying that spelling tests achieve nothing) I am so excited to see investigations, discussions and the teaching of sounds and words throughout primary school. Spelling is so important even in this technological age! After watching the online Sunday Spelling sessions I am so excited to get started. Thank you Jane, Ian and team for your fantastic resources.
by Ria Taylor
This book is clear, easy to follow and makes you feel excited about a skill that we have all found to be dull and prescriptive in the past. You receive a year’s worth of spelling activities to help engage your children with their spelling and word understanding and it helps you make connections to other areas of the curriculum. I highly recommend.
by Millie Hardy
Having watched all of JC’s Sunday Sessions and other videos during lockdown, I was excited to hear that a spelling book was coming out to further enhance my teaching or writing. I know from my experience of following JC’s approach that her ideas really do result in progress. Now that I’ve looked through this book, I’m excited to get started and am sure it will ‘transform’ my teaching.
The book is a practical week by week guide for teaching spelling to whichever year group you pick. Excellent layout and fabulous ideas. I’d recommend this book and her equally excellent writing/reading books.
by Millie Hardy
This is a brilliant book which have helped us to transform our spelling lessons.
It’s great, as a teacher, to find a resource which actually saves you workload!!
Highly recommend