Background
Guided spelling practice
What is Dictation?
Dictation is meant to be used as guided practice in writing words and checking students' understanding of sound spelling correspondences.
How is dictation meant to be used?
Often no attention is given to actual ___________ of how to write words using the new skill and thinking aloud about that process.
What is modeling?
This should be added to dictation work each week to extend the review and repetition cycle.
What are review skills?
It should be a part of your weekly phonics instruction as it is a systematic way for you to show your students how to use their growing phonics skills in their writing.
How often should I use dictation?
It can accelerate students' use of taught phonics and skills in their writing.
What is the benefit of dictation?
State aloud the first word in the dictation line and have students repeat it.
Have students write the word.
Provide feedback by writing the answer on the board so the students can correct their work.
What is the dictation routine?
It is treated in a haphazard manner.
What is spelling?
This is a natural way to extend practice and offers better follow up work to the reading of a story than a worksheet.
What is writing about the story?
It is through writing that all of a students' phonics knowledge is tested, confirmed, and consolidated.
What is application at the highest level?
It's a systematic way for you to show your students their growing phonics skills in writing.
Why should dictation be a part of your weekly phonics instruction?
Begin dictation as early as kindergarten.
Dictation will progress as the student progresses.
How early should dictation begin in the school age students?
Students need increased opportunities to ____________.
What is write?
Easy to create yourself and can be one of the centers students visit during independent work time.
What are Whiteboard activities?
Dictation should be started as soon as we...
What is teach students letter-sound relationships?
Name something that starts too late.
What is dictation?
Offers support in breaking apart a word by sound and letter and provides corrective feedback as well.
What are Montessori Crosswords (pg 94)?