Super Speller

Many teachers are frustrated with how spelling is traditionally taught and finding the time to support young spellers with explicit strategy instruction. Author Mark Weakland developed Super Spellers: Seven Steps to Transforming Your Spelling Instruction, an approach to teaching spelling in a way that is research-based and tied to authentic reading and writing. Super Spellers helps teachers understand what their students need through frequent formative assessments. The book focuses on the scope of spelling instruction and teaching spelling strategies to increase students' word-solving skills. Once kids are comfortable and competent spellers they become super readers and writers, too. In addition to step-by-step guidance, each chapter features an If you only have 10 minutes lesson plan segment. The appendix contains word inventories, a sample scope and sequence, examples of spelling list transformation, and word ladder activities.

With Super Spellers Starter Sets, you have everything you need to bring to life the wisdom of Super Spellers: Seven Steps to Transforming Your Spelling Instruction. Building on his research-based approach, Mark Weakland provides lesson plans and tools to create spelling centers and teach spelling strategies. This teacher resource provides a wealth of material, all adaptable to match the needs of your students:Seven spelling strategy lessons every student needs to know More than 20 lessons for different grade levels Pointers, differentiated word lists, sorting masters and correlating word ladders Six must-have spelling centers for nurturing independent practice A resource-rich appendix With these resources, your students will notice and remember spelling patterns and words while making connections between spelling and' their' reading and writing lives.

Presents 36 weeks of spelling lists, with four practice lessons for each list. Also, included are ten pages of Phono-Graphix spelling theory, and instructional parent hand-outs. This book includes first-grade and second-grade lists, or can be used for older remedial students.

Abby is the best speller in the class until a new witch shows up at school and the two of them compete in a spelling bee to see who will win a new broomstick.

Easy-to-learn games help children score higher on spelling tests. Illustrations throughout.

"This project is a companion teacher resource to Mark's original book, Super Spellers - it includes a brief overview of spelling instruction along with 21 lesson sets, divided into two grade bands (1-3 and 3-5) as well as chapters on general strategy lessons and independent center/workstation ideas"--

By discovering the uniqueness of each literary genre, students can better appreciate and comprehend what they read. Lessons help students recognize each genre, develop vocabulary, learn reading strategies, practice writing skills, make grammar connections, use graphic organizers, assess what they have learned, and complete culminating projects.

A guide to mastering difficult-to-spell words and names in the English language, such as 'mispelled' for 'misspelled'.