Support for Spelling

• Tenderhearts 4.37 pm, 7th June 2009

  great work. wish i had signed on 7 years ago.

• Flabbergasted 2.15 am, 21st June 2009

  Page 106 of this document states, "The i before e except after c rule is not worth teaching. It applies only to words in which the ie or ei stands for a clear /ee/ sound and unless this is known, words such as sufficient, veil and their look like exceptions."
  Actually, the rule is "i before e except after c or sounding like a as in weigh and neigh", so veil and their ARE exceptions. Sufficient, is also an exception, in that ent is a suffix. To discourage the use of the rule because you think it's confusing, or don't personally like it, or whatever is your prerogative, but such shoddy scholarship in a work supposedly aimed at educators does not reflect well upon you.

• andrea.brudy 1.32 pm, 3rd September 2009

  The pack contains a CD, but you cannot order it??

• jessphill 3.09 pm, 3rd September 2009

  It would be so useful if we could order this folder as a hard copy. It would be so much more accessible for staff to refer to. It has clearly been designed to be used this way. Are there any plans to allow us to order ? The sooner the better please!

• The National Strategies 1.14 pm, 7th September 2009

  This publication is now available to order using either the 'Order this publication online' link or DCSF Publications contact information.

• blossom21 9.11 pm, 24th September 2009

  I have tried to order this publication today 24th Sept. and have been told I am not authorised to do so. As a teacher who would like to use it I find this rather odd. Who is authorised to order it?

• • betsson 4.24 pm, 31st March 2010

    Thanks for information...
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    Betsson Emersson.

• The National Strategies 9.24 am, 5th October 2009

  Support for Spelling is currently out of stock. Also, it has a restricted allocation per school, for hard copy orders. The school account/URN will need to be quoted in the Prolog order and copies will be despatched to the school. If the school has exceeded its allocation of hard copy then the web download is is openly available. Hope this helps.

• spyder 12.56 pm, 24th November 2009

  Waste of time phoning. Booklet out of stock, orders can't be taken so I was advised to keep phoning back every week or two. Yeah, I'll get my PA onto it.

• bluelias 8.38 pm, 8th January 2010

  This is ok -but why only available as an a PDF file - it takes AGES scrolling backwards and forwards to find the relevant information (and for some reason, if you try to copy several pages, it doesn't work - tables seem to mess it up, so it is a real palaver just to get the relevant information for one term. Please can this be made available in a more user-friendly format: by year group and so that you can download one term's block at a time (or even a half-term's block). It's not as if you can then teach directly from that anyway - you still need to block out the work for each lesson. Very tedious.

  However, that apart, the actual content is good.

• • The National Strategies 5.37 pm, 18th January 2010

    This is a publication so is only available as a PDF. A Word version does not exist.

• bluelias 8.40 pm, 8th January 2010

  And - I meant to add - why didn't support for spelling appear when I stepped through from Literacy on this site - instead I got loads of other things about spelling, but not this document. Navigation round the strategy information is really pretty difficult. Google is usually much quicker, which really seems wrong.

• • The National Strategies 5.38 pm, 18th January 2010

    The Support for Spelling publication has now been added to the primary>literacy subject area>Curriculum>Spelling area so should be easier to find by navigating through the site.

• Beverlonia 9.16 pm, 16th February 2010

  I think this is an excellent document but a real shame that you cannot order a hard copy, as I think every teacher should have their own personal copy. Computers are not always reliable and some publications are hard to view online, a book is much more practical at times.

• sallym 10.53 pm, 17th February 2010

  Absolutely ridiculous that to plan and teach a 4 week unit takes hours of linking through to page after page of material in my own time.... I get lost every time. Why are hard copies of items such as support for spelling not freely available to the people who make or break them... the teachers! If you want people to use these materials successfully and impact on standards then give them the materials they are asking for.

• jodavey 11.22 am, 18th February 2010

  Totally agree Sallym.

  However I am confused: is this publication available in a hard copy or not?

  ''The National Strategies 12.14 pm, 7th September 2009 | Reply |Report abuse

  This publication is now available to order using either the 'Order this publication online' link or DCSF Publications contact information.''

  Followed by:

  ''The National Strategies 8.24 am, 5th October 2009 | Reply |Report abuse

  Support for Spelling is currently out of stock. Also, it has a restricted allocation per school, for hard copy orders. The school account/URN will need to be quoted in the Prolog order and copies will be despatched to the school. If the school has exceeded its allocation of hard copy then the web download is is openly available. Hope this helps.''

  But then:

  ''The National Strategies 4.37 pm, 18th January 2010 | Reply |Report abuse

  This is a publication so is only available as a PDF. A Word version does not exist.''

  And what about the previously mentioned CD - does this exist ? How do we ontain a copy?

  Some of the pages are in landscape - very difficult to read on a computer screen!

• sallym 10.52 pm, 20th February 2010

  yes jodavey it has been available.. I saw a "real" one on a recent training course and went online to order a copy but they are out of stock and no information on when they might be back in stock.

• Scroop 7.10 pm, 26th February 2010

  I have been trying and trying to get a hard copy of this document. Does it really exist?!?! ;-) Working at a primary school with little or no money I really dont appreciate having to print off my own hard copy using precious ink etc etc. Hard copies are so much better to work with. Dont we love those well thumbed, well loved hard copies of things? Perhaps i can get one on Ebay...?

• suzanne.short 10.22 pm, 30th March 2010

  download and print ... or convert to word then save or print ...

• LMM 5.16 pm, 20th September 2010

  Have tried to download 5 times today and i get the error message ' file is damaged and cannot be repaired;. Seeing as i cannot get a hard copy - where am i supposed to get a copy of this publication ?

• • The National Strategies 5.56 pm, 20th September 2010

    Hello there,

    I'm sorry you've experienced some problems with the download today. I've just checked it myself using both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers and it has opened successfully. Would you be able to try again?

    If it continues to be a problem then could you send us your details using one of the methods on the Contact page (in the footer of every page) and we will try and resolve the problem directly with you.

    Thank you

• catp 10.19 pm, 21st October 2010

  I cannot download this either. I've logged in again, and now I'm told that I'm not authorised to see this document. Is there a logical reason for this?

• • The National Strategies 11.06 am, 22nd October 2010

    Hello there,

    We have had some problems with downloads over the last 24 hours which resulted in error messages being displayed. Our development team picked this up as soon as they could this morning and have resolved it.

    If you spot something that is still not working, please drop an email to our customer services team at enquiries@nationalstrategies.co.uk

    Sorry for any inconvenience caused during this period.

    Thank you

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