Reading skills
. Sir, —Perhaps Barbara Hosie could explain how student teachers learn to teach spelling. Do they use the N.Z.C.E.R. list of seven levels which are in use in schools? The Schonell spelling lists were better than those but better still for primer children would be a phonetically compiled list. I am making one at the moment. The N.Z.C.E.R. method encourages children to learn incorrect spelling and (commit that to memory. It (is much better for the beginner to look at the word, spell each of its letters aloud (say six times), and then write or print it with a pencil while looking at it, rather than to write the word before he’s looked at,it properly and then to study it and write with his finger on the desk. Barbara Hosie doesn’t mention the alphabet or phonics, without which it would be impossible to learn to spell and read accurately.—Yours, etc., REFORMER. April 26. 1974.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33520, 29 April 1974, Page 12
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