How to Teach Spelling (Manual)

How to Teach Spelling (Manual)

How to Teach Spelling manual is an easy-to-use, spiral-bound guide for all of the How to Spell workbooks (sold separately). This valuable resource contains 176 pages of information, including a detailed index and a table of contents with grade level recommendations, skills, spelling generalizations, and word lists. This spelling program reflects an Orton-Gillingham-based approach in that it is systematic and rule-based. Recommendations of what and how much to teach at each grade level are made at the beginning of each lesson or section. Student teachers, new teachers, and tutors will find the suggested method especially useful, while experienced teachers will find the sample words, lessons, and exercises helpful.

How to Teach Spelling is an excellent program for helping students learn to recognize the sounds in the English language, to decode words, and to spell words correctly by relying on spelling rules and patterns rather than on memory.

Product Features

• How to Teach Spelling manual is not grade-level specific and is an excellent supplement that can be used with any grade-level How to Teach Spelling workbooks
• Skills addressed include spelling rules and generalizations, sight words, consonant blends, soft c and g, syllabication and syllable types, affixes and roots, digraphs, diphthongs, homonyms, silent letters, possessives, and contractions
• The manual must be used for all grade levels for dictation, but is probably most useful in Grade 3 to 8 and for teachers and tutors whose students in Grades 7 to 12 are having difficulty with spelling
• Grade 1 and 2 teachers will find the sections on sounds, consonant blends, and beginning spelling rules extremely beneficial
• Words, phrases, sentences for dictation, and material to be written on the chalkboard for students to copy are clearly indicated by large type in the manual