Spelling

An ongoing concern with children's writing for me has always been with their transference of spelling knowledge into their daily writing. I have got some ideas for word study from Words Their Way and am going to trial these as a reading activity. This is to do with sorting words into groups with long and short vowel sounds. I am also going to use early readers to give children daily dictation as anecdotally I have heard that this improves children's spelling.. Yet to find evidence in research on this.