Spelling Curriculum by Grade

The author points out ways in which recognizing sound and letter patterns makes spelling easier. Also important are recognition of diphthongs, silent letters, compound and abbreviated words, contractions, homophones, homographs, prefixes, suffixes, and base words. "Brain tickler" problems challenge students' imaginations and test their learning progress.
Barron's popular "Painless Series " of study guides for middle school and high school students offer a lighthearted, often humorous approach to their subjects, transforming details that might once have seemed boring or difficult into a series of interesting and mentally challenging ideas. Most titles in the series feature many fun-to-solve "Brain Tickler" problems with answers at the end of each chapter.

&&LDIV&&R&&LP style="in 0in 0pt"&&RSpelling Workbooks are designed to help students improve their ability to read and write by strengthening spelling skills. By learning key spelling techniques, young readers will benefit inside and outside the classroom. Each of the lessons in these fun, colorful books provide: &&L/P&&RActivities to teach readers to relate to sounds to spelling patterns Exercises to help children link spelling to meaning Unit reviews to test and reinforce what children have learned Short passages to proofread for misspelled words Rules for capitalization and punctuation Introduction to dictionary use&&LP style="in 0in 0pt"&&RHarcourt Family Learning Workbooks are a comprehensive line of workbook developed through a partnership with Harcourt, a leading educational publisher. Based on national teaching standards, these workbooks provide complete practice in math, reading, and other key subject areas. &&L/P&&R&&L/DIV&&R

A clear action plan for teaching spelling, designed for effective, stress-free teaching, progresses in logical, sequential order. Brings together auditory, visual, and kinesthetic approaches to learning.

This is the only method of teaching spelling that eliminates the Study-for-the-test-and-forget-by- Monday syndrome. Each of the 7 levels has 180 daily tests of 25 words. The AVKO approach uses its d