Dictation with Self-Checking -- a JCSpell learning routine

Dictation, a retrieval learning routine, is the teacher speaking a language chunk

(e.g., phonograms, words) so students can produce a written copy. It has the

rhythm and sound of rote learning.

Dictation should be brief and briskly paced.

In the beginning, Dictation includes just the phonograms. Later when words are

studied, they are added to dictation, and eventually a sentence is added.

JCSpell

Dictation is a two-part routine. First students write what the teacher

dictates. Then students dictate it back to the teacher who writes it so they can

proof and correct their own work immediately