1. Learning and Teaching Spelling 2. Understanding Spelling 3. Learning to Spell: Stages of Development or Multiple Sources of Knowledge? 4. The Case Studies Part 1: Children Who Made Good Progress as Spellers Part 2: Children in Key Stage 2 with Spelling Difficulties 5. The Effective Teaching of Spelling 6. Monitoring Spelling 7. General Conclusions and Recommendations
Biography
Olivia O'Sullivan is currently Assistant Director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. She has many years experience working in literacy and of designing and delivering courses. Her work includes the following:
Designed and delivered a series of courses for teachers for the BBC Media Centre and has developed courses on using web publishing and digital video in the classroom.
Worked on a funded project at CLPE which looked at ways of raising the achievement of boys, particularly in the area of writing. This has culminated in a book, Boys on the Margin (CLPE, 2004)
Tutored for 10 years CLPE Raising Literacy Standards course which was highly evaluated by Ofsted/HMI.
Worked in New York City for five years (1991-96) on a bi-annual project in New York public schools. The work involved designing and delivering a rolling programme of in-service training for cohorts of teachers, school principals and staff development teams.
Acted as a consultant to Dorling Kindersley Education on two dictionaries for children.
A regular contributor to CLPE Publications and a regular reviewer of publications for the Times Educational Supplement
'[This book] should be part of every school’s library and a course book for every postgraduate course…It is a splendid, sound and helpful book which has a thoughtful but practical approach.' - Dr Eve Bearne, University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, UK
'An essential buy for many trainee teachers. For schools, [this book] would assist the literacy coordinator in advising staff to help others teach spelling more effectively.' - Teresa Grainger, Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK
'As such this book provides rich and complex understandings of spelling to help all those involved in children's language development deepen their practice to good purpose.' - NATE
