Orthography refers to all aspects of the writing system including:

• spelling
• punctuation
• spacing
• special features
• boldface
• italics

Researchers contend that the best to learn about spelling is as a scientist or detective.  Rather than giving students a list of words to memorize, teachers can lead students in investigating words.  They can pose questions like, "How does a word change when an e is added to the end of it?"  Students can then gather words without e on the end and words with e on the end and compare them to figure out how this spelling rule usually works.

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Here are some websites for practicing sorting words according to their sounds or spelling rules.  Click each title to follow the link.

EduPlace​

Sort, Hunt, Write

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