Real Spelling is a comprehensive resource for educators who want to understand English spelling. Its is taught through the WordWorks Literacy Centre.   It is a structured language approach for educators who want to learn how to use the method of Socratic inquiry in teaching English spelling, and it harmonizes perfectly with an Orton-Gillingham /structured language approach like Lexercise.

Children with language processing problems and weak working memory skills typically need this kind of explicit and logical explanation in order gain upper level literacy skills.  A structured language approach to spelling reduces the burden on working memory and allows the child to use their stronger reasoning skills. For a discussion of the use of Real Spelling with dyslexic students see "Working with Struggling Readers" on the WordWorks site.

This approach differs from conventional approaches to spelling used in most schools in that it:

•  presents comprehensive detail about the phonological structure of English spelling
• supports grapheme-phoneme instruction from the earliest period, with explicit detail about conventions which are commonly omitted or misrepresented in other teaching resources.

 For more information see the videos of these Lexercise Live Broadcasts:

• Rough-ing It With Real Spelling
• English Morphology: What is it and how it can help struggling readers and writers

Here are some videos of a morphologically "structured language" teaching approach in action:

• Beginning with word sums and the use of a matrix 
• Investigating graphemes in grade 1
• Does the word 'does' make sense? 
• Highlighting letter teams (digraphs & trigraphs)
• Building word KNOWLEDGE from the word KNOW    
• A scientific inquiry of spelling structure and meaning in the word "refugee"
• Free and bound bases
  
• Morphological Jeopardy                  
• Structured spelling with a matrix