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This week I'd like to turn my attention to upper primary.  I'll start by running a scenario by you, and we'll see how familiar it sounds.  You're a teacher in a year three to six classroom and know that you have a range of students in your class.  Your students appear to mostly have solid reading skills, with a few students in need of intervention and a few who are considered high flyers, but when it comes to writing, your students struggle. The first thing that you see is that the volume of writing they're producing is not what you would expect from students whose reading skills are what yours are. The second thing you see is that their spelling is overall quite bad.  Simple words that you would expect students of their age and obvious intelligence to be able to spell are consistently incorrect. 

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