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Spelling: Grades 1-6Using the Online CatalogTo teach spelling by syllables with the phonic spelling rules, the best way to teach children to become successful spellers, choose only one of the programs listed below, either The Writing Road to Reading, or Spell to Write and Read with The W.I.S.E. Guide for Spelling, or The Elementary Spelling Book with The ABC’s and All Their Tricks.
The Writing Road to Reading teaches the phonograms not only so that
children learn to read, but also so that they learn to spell. The method includes six
years of spelling instruction, and the spelling words are taken from the Extended Ayres
List, which is included. The spelling instruction continues to teach using sight, sound,
speech, and writing combined. This ensures that no matter what type of learner your child
is -- auditory, visual, or kinesthetic -- the Spalding method will work for him. Decades
of research and implementation by specialists has confirmed the effectiveness of WRTR for
all learning types.
Spell to Write and Read is based on Spalding’s method, and
teaches the same material (letter forms, penmanship, phonics for reading and spelling) in
the same method as The Writing Road to Reading. Thus it could replace WRTR to teach
1-2 grade orthography as well as 1-6 grade
spelling. Each lesson is spelled out for the teacher, and the biblical content in the
choice of the sentences for dictation make it a popular substitute for Spalding’s Writing
Road to Reading. Spell to Write and Read contains the teacher’s
instructions for teaching the phonograms for reading, the letter forms and penmanship
(both printing and cursive), and the phonograms for spelling using Spalding’s
notebook system, as well as integrated reading and grammar, just as WRTR does. The
W.I.S.E. Guide for Spelling (below) contains the Ayres List with teacher instruction
and spelling enrichment exercises. Both books are needed to teach spelling in Grades 1-6.
Based on WRTR’s spelling notebook system, this is the companion to Spell
to Write and Read above (which replaced Teaching Reading at Home), and
clarifies and outlines the spelling notebook year by year. Included with the explanation
of the notebook and the spelling list are excellent sentences for copying and dictation
for every word, and spelling enrichment activities for every section of the Ayres List.
This parent guide is not a stand-alone book--you will need Spell to Write and Read.
To order, click on the book cover to go to the Back Home Industries catalog page. The
W.I.S.E. Guide is the second entry.
Noah Webster’s famous Blue-Backed Speller was the national standard
in spelling education in the 19th century, with over 100 million copies sold by the end of
the 1800’s. The publisher’s preface states, “The Elementary Spelling Book
was originally intended and directed towards the education of children in the second to
sixth grade. The principle of educating employed here was to introduce children to words
at the earliest age possible in which they could grasp the concepts of reading, writing,
spelling, pronouncing and understanding them. It was not expected that the comprehension
of all words taught would keep pace with the child’s ability to pronounce or spell
them.” This standard, so common in the 19th century, stems from our classical puritan
and colonial roots in education. Webster’s teaches spelling systematically through
analysis of syllables. The book begins with an analysis of sounds and key to
pronunciation, and each lesson progresses in complexity from there, beginning with
syllables such as ba, be, bi, bo, bu, and by in lesson 1, all the way through words like
abeyance, colleague, picturesque, and subtlety in the final lesson, lesson 152. No attempt
is made to divide the lessons into grades--a child just progressed to the next lesson when
he had thoroughly mastered his current one. Many practice sentences using the spelling
words are included for dictation. Additional lessons on adding suffixes and prefixes,
formation of plural nouns, reading and writing Roman, cardinal, ordinal, and fractional
numbers, foreign words and phrases common in English, abbreviations, punctuation and
capitalization rules, and homonyms, homophones, and homographs are also included. To teach
the phonic spelling rules with each list, The ABC’s and All Their Tricks will be
required.
These durable books are thread sewn and tape bound. Precision ruled with
one inch heading and 3/8 inch faint blue lines (wide-ruled), these composition books have
40 pages for a child just beginning to learn his letter forms and practicing his
penmanship. The 40 page-size make the book less thick than the larger composition books,
which helps to prevent hand fatigue in a child learning to write for the first time. These
sewn composition books are of the type recommended for beginning writers in The Writing
Road to Reading, Spell to Write and Read, and may also be used with Webster’s
Elementary Spelling Book. When children have progressed in their printing (and
cursive) sufficiently so that they produce the letter forms effortlessly, children may go
to the larger Mead Composition Book, below. These durable books are center stitched with 100 wide-ruled pages and
margins. Precision ruled with one inch heading and 3/8 inch faint blue lines, these
composition books are perfect for a child who has learned his letter forms, effortlessly
writes both printing and cursive, and needs a composition book not for phonogram practice
anymore, but for spelling lessons and copybook. The 100 page-size means a child will go
through less books per year. These sewn composition books are of the type recommended for
intermediate writers in The Writing Road to Reading, Spell to Write and Read,
and may also be used with Webster’s Elementary Spelling Book. Mead Composition
Books may also be purchased for a cost-savings in a 3-notebook
pack.
Using the Online Catalog
Sometimes books go out of print, or the publisher runs out of stock. Any book not available from Barnes&Noble.com for any reason can be searched using AddAll.com, a book shopping site which will scan Barnes&Noble.com as well as Amazon.com, Powell’s Books, Book Close Outs and many other new and used book sites. Be sure to also check BookFinder.com for out of print book searches. Still have questions? Ask me!
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Guide for Spelling
Elementary
Spelling Book
Classmate
Composition Book
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