Weakland, a literacy coach and consultant with experience as a fourth and fifth-grade learning support teacher, reading consultant, and reading specialist, supplies teachers with lesson sets and tools for teaching spelling to elementary students. He presents lesson sets for teaching spelling strategies, constructing spelling centers and teaching children how to use them, and teaching specific spelling features. Each lesson set includes a focus for the week, options for skill review and reteaching, a master spelling list of words for word study activities and differentiated word lists, a pre-test to determine what students know, examples of differentiated word lists, language for presenting a quick and easy spelling activity while giving students practice in multiple strategies, word cards for word sorting activities, word ladders, and suggestions for language to use during word and sentence dictation activities. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Because spelling is for reading, it is important to teach spelling, not merely assign it. With Super Spellers Starter Sets, you have everything you need to bring to life the wisdom of Super Spellers: Seven Steps to Transforming Your Spelling Instruction. Building on his research-based approach, Mark Weakland provides practical, hands-on tools to create spelling centers; teach spelling strategies that help children solve spelling challenges; and introduce everything from short vowel patterns to multi-syllable Greek- and Latin-based words. This teacher resource provides a wealth of material, all adaptable to match the needs of your students: Seven spelling strategy lessons every student needs to knowMore than 20 lessons for different grade levelsPointers, differentiated word lists, sorting masters and correlating word laddersSix must-have spelling centers for nurturing independent practiceA resource-rich appendix With these resources, your students will notice and remember spelling patterns and words, and—most importantly—make connections between spelling and their reading and writing lives.