This book is a personal spelling dictionary containing over 1,200 high-frequency words including sight words, commonly misspelled words, and academic content words. Spaces are lefts for students to write their own words as they come across them from textbooks, spelling lists, reading, various subjects or any other source. Additional sections in the back for students to write new content specific words from reading, math, science, social studies, Spanish, computer class, art, music, or other sources. This provides students with ownership and confidence as they create, write, edit and refer back to their own personal spelling dictionaries.

A Spelling Dictionary is a resource and reference tool for independent writers that provides indispensable resources for beginning writers, and builds research and writing skills.

This book is a personal spelling dictionary for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade containing over 700 high-frequency words including sight words, commonly misspelled words, and academic content words. 32 point font for easy reading and big spaces for little hands to write. Spaces are lefts for students to write their own words as they come across them from textbooks, spelling lists, reading, various subjects or any other source. Additional sections in the back for students to write new content specific words from reading, math, science, social studies, Spanish, computer class, art, music, or other sources. This provides students with ownership and confidence as they create, write, edit and refer back to their own personal spelling dictionaries.

Provides more than 1,100 hand-printed, high-frequency words appropriate for intermediate students. Extra pages with blank lines are included to support a growing vocabulary.

Lists almost 500 high-interest, high-frequency words in large, hand-printed manuscript and provides space to add new words to help students improve their spelling, alphabetizing, reading, and writing. A 10-page back section includes pages for color words, number words, days of the week, months of the year, contractions, classmates and friends, family members, and pets. For grades 1-2.

“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.

The correct usage for more than 2,500 commonly misused words is provided in this concise and accessible handbook that assures, insures, and ensures that anyone who wants to communicate accurately and effectively chooses the right word every time. Arranged alphabetically in pairs (or threes when appropriate), entries are carefully cross-referenced and explained with a sentence, guaranteeing that readers find boycott, even when they look up embargo first. Two dozen accompanying cartoons humorously clarify confusing distinctions between words, making this a fun reference for all word lovers to enjoy.