Teaching Kids to Spell

By J. Richard Gentry and Jean W Gillet

Book Overview

Teaching Kids to Spell fills the need for a book to help teachers working in an integrated language arts program provide systematic, personalized spelling instruction. The authors provide a much-needed bridge between traditional spelling instruction and whole language approaches, showing teachers (and parents, too) how spelling ability begins to emerge in young children's invented spellings, how it grows as children pass through predictable stages of spelling strategies, and how eventually every student can reach a standard of correct "expert" spelling.

The text includes wordlists, tips for teaching predictable patterns, and a variety of individual activities that prepare children to meet the phonetic, semantic, historical, and visual demands of spelling, plus strategies for implementing a spelling workshop in the elementary classroom.

Teachers, school administrators, and parents who want to understand the complex process of spelling will find this book a valuable resource.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435087606
• ISBN13: 9780435087609
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 5

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource

This is THE book for improving spelling achievement that can be helpful to both teachers and parents. You will find it exceptionally well written and an ongoing resource.

A Teachers Dream!

This book is an excellent resource for teachers in the elementary grades. It gives a listing of many different spelling rules, generalizations, exceptions and more. I used it this year with my students...I introduced a different rule each week with words appropriate for their grade level. Take a look at this book. It's wonderful!