Louisa Moats, author of How Spelling Supports Reading states: “If students have a higher knowledge of spelling, they are able to make more sense of the words that they are reading therefore, it is easier for them to remember what is being read.”ĭr. Ed., author of The Relationship Between Spelling Ability and Reading Fluency and Comprehension in Elementary Students, 2013 states: Research Supports Combining Reading and Spelling As you improve your reading skills by working with sound/symbol relationships, you improve your spelling skills. As you improve your spelling skills, you improve your reading skills. The relationship between phonemic awareness, reading, and spelling is complementary. Learning how we put letters together to make words improves your ability to read. So, pulling these two steps together, you are able to both sound out words, decode them, and spell them, encode them. For example, there are five sounds in the word strip: /s/ /t/ /r/ /i/ /p/.

This process is used when you spell a word phonetically. When you break a spoken word into its separate sounds, phonemes, you spell the word. You blend the individual sounds together to form a word. Then, you combine the phonemes to form a word. This is your ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds, phonemes, in spoken words. Phonemic awareness is your ability to manipulate the sounds in language. Phonemic Awareness Is Necessary for Reading and Spelling Phoneme Blending When you are able to spell more easily, you are also able to read more easily. This is the reason why Scholar Within’s at-home and online reading program includes spelling and phonics lessons.

Here, phonemic awareness and phonics come together in the process of reading.

In other words, to spell, you need to pull the sounds apart within a word and match the letters to the sounds.Įncoding and decoding combine the components of auditory and visual processing.

In order to spell, you need to encode words. In order to read, you need to decode (sound out) words. In order to do one part well, you need the other part. Reading and spelling are two sides of the same coin.

Encoding in writing