Word crafting: teaching spelling, grades K-6

Contents

Foreword by Donald H. Graves

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Why sSpelling matters

Teaching spelling as a craft

It's all about assessment

Essential classroom practices

Know your spelling tools: Consumer beware

Appendices

A: Spelling pilot adoption-evaluation of publisher materials

B: Innovation configuration rubric for effective spelling instruction

C: Case study exercise for innovation configurations for effective

Spelling instruction

D: Teacher's references and eesources for effective word study

E: Study word study journals

F: Developmental phases of spelling chart (Houghton Mifflin)

G: High frequency words/"no excuses" words

Frequently misspelled eords

teaching "No Excuses" and grequently misspelled words

"No excuses" words

First grade

Second Grade

Third through fifth grades

H: Games and activities

I: Home page: www.spellingtools.com

J: Spelling inventories

K: Ideas for parents and caregivers

L: English is a difficult language!

M: Children's literature to support word study

References

Index.