Building Spelling Skills

Help your students increase spelling competency with the spelling lists taken from commonly used English words, commonly misspelled words, and words with common phonetic or structural elements The day-by-day format makes this great series simple to use.

On Monday, students spell and write the words on their list. Tuesday through Thursday, students interact with the words in a variety of formats. On Friday, they take a traditional spelling test that includes dictation sentences.

Each book contains 30 spelling units comprised of:

• a spelling list
• teaching objectives
• sentences for dictation
• four reproducible student practice pages

Also included:

• forms for weekly testing, recordkeeping, and creating your own spelling lists
• suggestions for teaching spelling strategies
• reproducible spelling strategies chart
• reproducible “How to Study Your List” chart
• a parent letter form
• an answer key

Spelling words were selected from:

• a list of the most commonly used words in English
• words frequently misspelled at each grade level
• words with common phonemic elements
• words changed by adding affixes and by forming compound words and contractions