Introduction Celebrate Basic Language Skills | p. 7 |
Skills Checklist for Spelling | p. 8 |
Skills Exercises | p. 9 |
Double Trouble (Words with Double Consonants) | p. 10 |
A Troublesome Twosome (Spelling Rule: ie and ei) | p. 11 |
Words That Stick Together (Compound Words) | p. 12 |
Letters with a Secret Life (Confusing Consonants and Blends) | p. 13 |
Too Many Frogs (Plural Words) | p. 14 |
To Name a Few (Proper Nouns) | p. 15 |
Out of the Past (Past Tense Verbs) | p. 16 |
The Case of the Vanishing Endings (Distinguish Among Similar Endings) | p. 17 |
Tricky Endings (Distinguish Among Similar Endings) | p. 18 |
Ants for Sale (Distinguish Among Similar Endings) | p. 19 |
Tangled Endings (Distinguish Among Similar Endings) | p. 20 |
You Ate That? (Distinguish Among Similar Endings) | p. 21 |
Rule Breakers (Words That Break Spelling Rules) | p. 22 |
At the Root of It All (Root Words) | p. 23 |
Additions to the Beginning (Words with Prefixes) | p. 24 |
Additions to the End (Words with Suffixes) | p. 25 |
Lazy Letters (Words with Silent Letters) | p. 26 |
Quartets, Queens, and Quicksand (Words with the Letter Q) | p. 27 |
Surprising S (Words with the Letter S) | p. 28 |
Who's Gone Wrong? (Words with the Letter W) | p. 29 |
Extraordinary Words (Words with the Letter X) | p. 30 |
Wily Words (Words with the Letter Y) | p. 31 |
Words with Pizzaz (Words with the Letter Z) | p. 32 |
The Outstanding, Outrageous O (Words with the Letter O) | p. 33 |
Winning Combinations (Vowel Combinations) | p. 34 |
Peculiar Words (Unusual Words) | p. 35 |
Look-Alike Words (Similar Words) | p. 36 |
Sound-Alike Words (Homonyms) | p. 37 |
Borrowed Words (Words of Foreign Origin) | p. 38 |
Words You Can Eat (Food Words) | p. 39 |
Words That Won't Stand Still (Movement Words) | p. 40 |
Words That Make You Laugh and Cry (Funny and Sad Words) | p. 41 |
Itsy-Bitsy Words (Small Words) | p. 42 |
Giant, Colossal Words (Big Words) | p. 43 |
Words with Character (Descriptive Words) | p. 44 |
Unearthly Words (Space Words) | p. 45 |
Words That Confuse (Frequently Misspelled Words) | p. 46 |
Who's Right? (Identify Correct Spelling) | p. 47 |
Sniffing Out Mistakes (Identify Incorrect Spelling) | p. 48 |
Signs for Spellers (Editing to Correct Spelling) | p. 49 |
Headlines in Need of Help (Editing to Correct Spelling) | p. 50 |
Appendix | p. 51 |
10 Spelling Rules | p. 52 |
Speller's Guide to Confusing Sounds | p. 53 |
Words That Are Often Misspelled | p. 54 |
Spelling Skills Test | p. 56 |
Answer Key | p. 60 |
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