Provide students with frequent, focused skills practice with this Reproducible Teacher's Edition. The reproducible format and additional teacher resources provide everything needed to help students master and retain basic skills. In Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 6+, students will learn 18 spelling words per week (540 total). Three sentences for dictation are provided for each list.

Unlike oral communication, reading is not an automatic or naturally acquired skill, and children do not learn to read in the same manner as they learn to speak. Reading requires that children be able to process letter sounds visually. There is a definite connection between reading and spelling, but the skills needed for spelling are more complex than the skills needed for reading or oral communication. Spelling goes a step further and requires that children be able to process phonetic sounds and apply them to letter symbols in order to form visual-phonological connections that can be reconstructed in oral and/or written form. This book presents and discusses topical data on spelling skills.

In Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 3, students will learn 15 spelling words per week (450 total). Three sentences for dictation are provided for each list. Spelling lists include the following: contractions blends vowel sounds prefixes and suffixes compound words words with silent letters and homophones consonant digraphs Practice pages include the following: a spelling list with spaces to read, write, and spell each word visual memory exercises word meaning (filling in missing spelling words in sentences, crossword puzzles, synonyms/antonyms) exercises with phonetic elements editing for spelling Reproducible forms include: spelling record form individual spelling record spelling test form spelling list form word sort form parent letter Reproducible forms include:spelling record form individual spelling record spelling test form spelling list form word sort form parent letter.

In Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 4, students will learn 18 spelling words per week (540 total). Three sentences for dictation are provided for each list. Spelling lists include the following: - contractions - blends - vowel sounds - prefixes and suffixes - compound words - words with silent letters - homophones and easily confused spellings - consonant digraphs - time and calendar words - multisyllable words Practice pages include the following: - a spelling list with spaces to read, write, and spell each word - word meaning (filling in missing spelling words in sentences, crossword puzzles, synonyms/antonyms) - exercises with phonetic elements - editing for spelling Reproducible forms include: - spelling checklist - individual spelling record - spelling test form - spelling list form - word sort form - parent letter Reproducible forms include: - spelling record form - individual spelling record - spelling test form - spelling list form - word sort form - parent letter

In Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 1, students will learn five spelling words per week in lists 1-14; then eight words per week in lists 15-30 (198 total). One or two sentences for dictation are provided for each list. Spelling lists include the following: - short and long vowel words - adding s and es - words with sh, nt, nd - sounds of ow, ar, aw, oa - present and past tense words Practice pages for each unit include the following: - a spelling list with spaces to read, write, and spell each word - a configuration puzzle for every spelling list - word sorting - word meaning (filling in missing spelling words in sentences) - exercises to find the misspellings and hidden words Reproducible forms include: - spelling record form - individual spelling record - spelling test form - spelling list form - word sort form - parent letter

In Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 5, students will learn 18 spelling words per week (540 total). Three sentences for dictation are provided for each list. Spelling lists include the following: - contractions - blends - vowel sounds - prefixes and suffixes - compound words - words with silent letters - easily confused spellings - multisyllable words - irregular plurals Practice pages include the following: - a spelling list with spaces to read, write, and spell each word - word meaning (filling in missing spelling words in sentences, crossword puzzles, synonyms/antonyms) - exercises with phonetic elements and other types of word study - editing for spelling Reproducible forms include: - spelling record form - individual spelling record - spelling test form - spelling list form - word sort form - parent letter