Spelling Matters 3rd edition brings you stimulating and proven activities designed to enhance spelling skills and strategies. This highly successful spelling series addresses the curriculum and provides teachers and parents with a complete yearly spelling program and homework reinforcement activities in a single student activity book. It's easy to implement, has challenging elements for students who need them and provides numerous revision opportunities.

Fresh new cover, same great content In 1996, Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas presented Guided Reading, the most comprehensive guided reading resource ever published. Hailed for its practical, systematic approach, the book showed hundreds of thousands of teachers how to address the needs of the whole classroom as well as individual readers. Now, with the publication of Word Matters, Pinnell and Fountas offer K-3 teachers the same unparalleled support, this time focusing on phonics and spelling instruction. Word Matters presents essential information on designing and implementing a high-quality, systematic literacy program to help children learn about letters, sounds, and words. The central goal is to teach children to become "word solvers": readers who can take words apart while reading for meaning, and writers who can construct words while writing to communicate. Where similar books are narrow in focus, Word Matters presents the theoretical underpinnings and practical wherewithal of word study in three contexts: word study that includes systematically planned and applied experiences focusing on the elements of letters and words writing, including how children use phoneme-grapheme relationships, word patterns, and principles to develop spelling ability reading, including teaching children how to solve words with the use of phonics and visual-analysis skills as they read for meaning. Each topic is supported with a variety of practical tools: reproducible sheets for a word study system and for writing workshop; lists of spelling minilessons; and extensive word lists, including frequently used words, antonyms, synonyms, and more. Armed with these tools-and the tried-and-true wisdom of Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas-teachers can help students develop not just the "essential skills," but also a joyful appreciation of their own literacy.

Based on the active and innovative approach of making words that teachers and their students have grown to love from Cunningham, "What Really Matters in Spelling" presents teachers in grades kindergarten through eighth grade with a clear approach to what really matters in spelling.

This popular spelling and vocabulary course is carefully graded to ensure pupils made steady progress. The words in the book are accompanied by exercises teaching their usage. Word Perfect Spelling is idea for primary and secondary schools.This course consists of:Introductory Book 9780602209841Book 1 9780602209858Book 2 9780602209865Book 3 9780602209872Book 4 9780602209889Book 5 9780602209896Book 6 9780602209902Book 7 9780602209919

Age 5-7.

The book narrates the history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxons to the present-day. It also examines the changing attitudes to spelling, including numerous proposals for spelling reform, ranging from the introduction of new alphabets to more modest attempts to rid English of its silent letters, and the differing agendas they reveal.

Fourth in a six-volume spelling program for primary school children, designed to improve word skills and extend vocabulary knowledge. Each volume contains 36 classroom units and home study exercises, challenging words, review units, record of progress charts, general knowledge challenges, and spelling reference lists.