Best Ways to Teach Spelling

The teachers and parents at our school are debating how spelling should be taught. Do you have any guidelines for teaching spelling? - Need Resolution
Answer: Here are some recommendations for teaching spelling by Dr. Brad Loomer, who has published and directed numerous studies related to improving the spelling curriculum.
-Elementary-school students should study the words used most frequently in child and adult writing.
-Research indicates that the pretest-study-test method is best for most students. It lets them find out what words they need to study.
-It is profitable to teach only those spelling rules that can be easily taught and have few exceptions.
-In teaching the spelling of a word, it is best to concentrate on the whole word rather than each individual syllable.
-Students should receive from 60 to 75 minutes of instruction per week.
-Students should not be required to make repeated writings of words.
-Words should be presented in a list.