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Learning and recalling spellings 10 Spelling tips to a useful spelling strategy

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The majority of excellent spellers possess a ‘photographic’ memory for storing spellings that they have already learned. They know when a word looks correctly spelled. For these spellers, the sound of the word and/or its component sounds trigger the internal visual representation of the word.

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A Summary of the alternative NLP spelling strategy with coaching tips taken from the forthcoming book ‘Minding Your Spelling with NLP & Coaching’
by Mavis Kerrigan.

Copyright: Small Steps Giant Leaps Ltd. 2006. You may freely copy these Spelling Tips provided you acknowledge the author linking back to this site and never change the content .

Spelling Excellence
Excellent spelles feel confident about spelling words that they have never seen before because they have a graphone1 memory store which offers the possibility of spelling any word correctly. This enables them to know where to look in a dictionary to be able to check their spelling if they want to and they are confident enough to ask others for help, if they need to.

The Spelling Tips are a starting point, to building a graphonic1 memory store and will give you a taster of how the Spelling Sense with NLP & Coaching Literacy Programme2 works.

 

USEFUL INFORMATION

1Graphone / Graphonic

 

A ‘graphone’ is a word that Mavis Kerrigan coined in the book Minding Your Spelling With NLP & Coaching 2006. This term denotes a grapheme anchored to a phoneme and uses it to avoid repeating the phrase ‘a grapheme anchored to a phoneme’. This word relates to the ‘graphonic’ nature of the English spelling system. It relies on the fact that when you spell a word you anchor each sound unit in a specific word to its appropriate grapheme, according to the dictionary spelling.

2Spelling Sense with NLP & Coaching

The literacy programme that teaches spelling reading and writing using NLP and Coaching. Contact Mavis Kerrigan at Small Step Giant Leaps Ltd. Tel: +44(0) 2380 466679 E-mail info@ssgl.fsnet.co.uk

3Phoneme

The smallest unit of sound in a word is called a ‘phoneme’.

EXAMPLES:

The word ‘s t o p’ has four phonemes and the words ‘t o p’ and ‘ch o p’ have three phonemes.

There are approximately 44 phonemes in the English language, 24 consonant phonemes and 20 vowel phonemes.

EXAMPLES:

· * b*, as in ‘bat’ *c*, as in ‘c at’ * d*, ‘dog’… *m*, as in ‘mud’ * n*, as in ‘not’ *p*, as in ‘pin’ …. *ch*, as in ‘chin *th* and *th*…. As in thin/this

*a* as in ‘ca t’, *ae * as in ‘main’, *aw* as in ‘saw’ …..

4Grapheme

A grapheme visually represents a phoneme. Approximately 150 graphemes represent the 44 phonemes. This is because we can represent some phonemes with more than one grapheme, according to the evolution of the word from other languages, such as Greek, Latin and German.

EXAMPLES:

· [ c] represents *c*, as the starting sound in the word ‘c at’ in the basic graphone code you teach initially in Spelling Sense with NLP & Coaching Literacy Programme and [k] can also represent *c*, as the starting sound in the word ‘k it’ which you teach in the complex graphone code section in Spelling Sense with NLP & Coaching Programme

· The grapheme [ f] represents the phoneme*f* as the starting sound in the word ‘ fit’; the graphemes [ph] which starts the word ‘phone’ the graphemes [gh] which is the final sound in the word ‘enough ’ also represent the phoneme *f *

NB You can obtain a comprehensive list of phonemes with their associated graphemes when you visit www.schoolteachingresources.com and sign up for the monthly newsletter which will offer you more tips.

5NLP & Coaching

 

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is the study of how people structure their experience, how they create their emotions and motivate themselves to do, think and be creative about what they believe about what they value, whether in themselves, or in their material and spiritual world. Coaching is a technique that brings out the hidden inner resources of the students as well as helping them discover relevant external resources. Students are encouraged to think for themselves to find their own solutions.

6Phonological

 

The order of sounds in a word.

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