Ep. 191: Teaching Spelling is Teaching Reading with Pam Kastner Melissa & Lori Love Literacy ™

Send us a Text Message. Pam Kastner discusses the connection between spelling and reading. She emphasizes that teaching spelling is teaching reading, as spelling is a higher linguistic skill that requires complete and accurate recall and memory for words. Spelling helps students understand the internal structure of words and improves their reading abilities. She suggests using instructional routines that integrate phonology, orthography, morphology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics to t...