individual spelling list according toeach students weaknesses and strengths. Self-correction would be letting a studentcorrect their own tests and learn by their own corrections. A dialogue journal is when“Each student has their own journal in which they can have continuous dialogue withtheir teacher. The teacher can model appropriate grammar and language usage withoutcorrecting what the student writes” (Westminster College). Word prediction is whenthe student is given the first few letters of the word and must spell the rest of the wordout, this helps the student put the spelling rules he has learned into action. 5When Hodge’s teaching methods and the teaching methods of this study arecompared the two slightly differ. Hodges does not mention teaching rules and does not incorporate a rule based method in his teaching strategy. Hodges puts more emphasison making sure that the student understands the meaning and relationship of words andnot the basic rules of spelling. A rule based strategy must be taught to learningdisabled students in order for them to learn spelling. Hodges believes that spelling canbe taught through spelling activities such as Dick and Jane books, knowing thedefinition of the spelling words, using the words in sentences, and using the dictionary. This method has been proven ineffective in teaching learning disabled elementarystudents. Learning disabled students learned better when they were taught spellingrules in which they used morpheme and phoneme strategies to spell the words. Learning disabled children are not stupid, their brain just chooses to learn a differentway in comparison to children without learning disabilities. Why do we want to see Dick and Jane run?Smruti Desai12/4/00Linguistics...
