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NIFDI Offers Remote Spelling Mastery Levels A and B Training-January 13

NIFDI Offers Remote Spelling Mastery Levels A and B Training-January 13

Spelling Mastery Levels A & B Remote TrainingJoin us on January 13, 2027, for a remote training on Spelling Mastery (SM) Levels A and B. The skills taught in Levels A & B are equivalent to grades 1 and 2 spelling knowledge goals. Here is a link to the placement test.

Spelling Mastery Level A (SMA) and Spelling Mastery Level B (SMB) teach students’ spelling skills through two interwoven strategies: the phonemic strategy for beginning spellers and the whole-word approach to teach common words that cannot be taught through the phonemic strategy. SMA teaches the sound-symbol strategy (phonemic) for spelling simple, regularly spelled words to provide spellers with generalizations for spelling many words and word parts. SMA uses the whole-word strategy for teaching a set of high-frequency, irregularly spelled words that do not fit generalizations. SMB expands the sound-symbol strategy to more difficult, regularly spelled words and increases the number of irregularly spelled words that students spell.

You’ll learn and practice effective delivery techniques, correction procedures, mastery and testing standards, and remediation strategies.

Click here to register. 

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