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Book Synopsis
The effective and fun-filled way to teach spelling to elementary students

The Spelling Teacher''s Lesson-a-Day gives teachers 180 engaging and ready-to-use lessons-one for each day of the school year-that boost spelling skills in students grades 3-6. These lessons may be used as sponge or hook activities (five-minute lessons to start off each school day) or teachers may simply pick and choose activities from within the book for the occasional spelling lesson. Fry teaches spelling patterns by contrasting homophones (like-sounding words) to help students recognize these spelling patterns in more complex words. He also boosts students'' spelling skills by demystifying contractions, abbreviations, capitalization, silent letters, suffixes and prefixes, and more.

  • Offers an easy-to-use method for teaching spelling that has been proven to be effective
  • Includes 180 ready-to-use, reproducible lessons-one for each day of the school year
  • A new volum

    Table of Contents

    Introduction xv

    Part I Homophones and Phonics Lessons 1

    Lesson 1: be vs. bee 3

    Lesson 2: by vs. bye vs. buy 4

    Lesson 3: fair vs. fare 5

    Lesson 4: no vs. know 6

    Lesson 5: to vs. too vs. two 7

    Lesson 6: loan vs. lone 8

    Lesson 7: tail vs. tale 9

    Lesson 8: sea vs. see 10

    Lesson 9: lie vs. lye 11

    Lesson 10: meat vs. meet 12

    Lesson 11: maid vs. made 13

    Lesson 12: son vs. sun 14

    Lesson 13: dear vs. deer 15

    Lesson 14: do vs. due vs. dew 16

    Lesson 15: wood vs. would 17

    Lesson 16: write vs. right 18

    Lesson 17: pole vs. poll 19

    Lesson 18: bear vs. bare 20

    Lesson 19: tax vs. tacks 21

    Lesson 20: bite vs. byte 22

    Lesson 21: brake vs. break 23

    Lesson 22: mail vs. male 24

    Lesson 23: flea vs. flee 25

    Lesson 24: shoe vs. shoo 26

    Lesson 25: cheap vs. cheep 27

    Lesson 26: hall vs. haul 28

    Lesson 27: leak vs. leek 29

    Lesson 28: roll vs. role 30

    Lesson 29: die vs. dye 31

    Lesson 30: led vs. lead 32

    Lesson 31: eight vs. ate 33

    Lesson 32: I vs. eye 34

    Lesson 33: ball vs. bawl 35

    Lesson 34: base vs. bass 36

    Lesson 35: week vs. weak 37

    Lesson 36: not vs. knot 38

    Lesson 37: rain vs. reign 39

    Lesson 38: plain vs. plane 40

    Lesson 39: past vs. passed 41

    Lesson 40: or vs. oar 42

    Lesson 41: beach vs. beech 43

    Lesson 42: row vs. roe 44

    Lesson 43: pause vs. paws 45

    Lesson 44: oh vs. owe 46

    Lesson 45: beat vs. beet 47

    Lesson 46: pier vs. peer 48

    Lesson 47: hole vs. whole 49

    Lesson 48: which vs. witch 50

    Lesson 49: hail vs. hale 51

    Lesson 50: guest vs. guessed 52

    Lesson 51: sell vs. cell 53

    Lesson 52: cents vs. sense 54

    Lesson 53: bread vs. bred 55

    Lesson 54: band vs. banned 56

    Lesson 55: root vs. route 57

    Lesson 56: peak vs. peek 58

    Lesson 57: one vs. won 59

    Lesson 58: night vs. knight 60

    Lesson 59: rose vs. rows 61

    Lesson 60: pail vs. pale 62

    Lesson 61: in vs. inn 63

    Lesson 62: road vs. rode 64

    Lesson 63: pair vs. pear 65

    Lesson 64: him vs. hymn 66

    Lesson 65: fur vs. fir 67

    Lesson 66: hair vs. hare 68

    Lesson 67: new vs. knew 69

    Lesson 68: higher vs. hire 70

    Lesson 69: flu vs. flew 71

    Lesson 70: great vs. grate 72

    Lesson 71: hi vs. high 73

    Lesson 72: find vs. fined 74

    Lesson 73: so vs. sew 75

    Lesson 74: raise vs. rays 76

    Lesson 75: way vs. weigh 77

    Lesson 76: ant vs. aunt 78

    Lesson 77: berry vs. bury 79

    Lesson 78: blue vs. blew 80

    Lesson 79: our vs. hour 81

    Lesson 80: plum vs. plumb 82

    Lesson 81: read vs. reed 83

    Lesson 82: ring vs. wring 84

    Lesson 83: toe vs. tow 85

    Lesson 84: rap vs. wrap 86

    Lesson 85: warn vs. worn 87

    Lesson 86: least vs. leased 88

    Lesson 87: red vs. read 89

    Lesson 88: bale vs. bail 90

    Lesson 89: been vs. bin 91

    Lesson 90: flower vs. flour 92

    Part II Contractions, Capitalization, Common Misspellings, and More 93

    Contractions 95

    Lesson 91: Contractions: Not 97

    Lesson 92: Contractions: Will or Shall 98

    Lesson 93: Contractions: Have 99

    Lesson 94: Contractions: Would or Had 100

    Lesson 95: Contractions: Is or Has 101

    Lesson 96: Contractions: Various 102

    Capitalization 103

    Lesson 97: Capitalization: First Word 105

    Lesson 98: Capitalization: Names 106

    Lesson 99: Capitalization: Places 107

    Lesson 100: Capitalization: Pets 108

    Lesson 101: Capitalization: Holidays 109

    Lesson 102: Capitalization: Books, Plays, and Movies 110

    Lesson 103: Capitalization: Periodicals 111

    Lesson 104: Capitalization: People’s Titles 112

    Lesson 105: Capitalization: Companies 113

    Lesson 106: Capitalization: Quotations 114

    Lesson 107: Capitalization: Review 115

    Common Misspellings 117

    Lesson 108: Common Misspellings 119

    Lesson 109: Common Misspellings 120

    Lesson 110: Common Misspellings 121

    Lesson 111: Common Misspellings 122

    Lesson 112: Common Misspellings 123

    Lesson 113: Common Misspellings 124

    Lesson 114: Common Misspellings 125

    Lesson 115: Common Misspellings 126

    Lesson 116: Common Misspellings 127

    Lesson 117: Common Misspellings 128

    Plurals 129

    Lesson 118: Plurals: For Most Words 131

    Lesson 119: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘S’’ or ‘‘SS’’ 132

    Lesson 120: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘CH’’ 133

    Lesson 121: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘SH’’ 134

    Lesson 122: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘X’’ 135

    Lesson 123: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘Y’’ 136

    Lesson 124: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘O’’ 137

    Lesson 125: Plurals: Irregular Plurals 138

    Lesson 126: Plurals: Invariable Nouns 139

    Abbreviations 141

    Lesson 127: Abbreviations: First Two Letters 143

    Lesson 128: Abbreviations: First and Last Letters 144

    Lesson 129: Abbreviations: First and Middle Letters 145

    Lesson 130: Abbreviations: Two-Word State Names 146

    Lesson 131: Abbreviations: Initializations 147

    Lesson 132: Abbreviations: Days of the Week 148

    Lesson 133: Abbreviations: Months of the Year 149

    Lesson 134: Abbreviations: Streets 150

    Lesson 135: Abbreviations: Titles 151

    Lesson 136: Abbreviations: Time 152

    Lesson 137: Abbreviations: Various Fields 153

    Homophone Contractions 155

    Lesson 138: Homophone Contractions: ‘‘They’re’’ 157

    Lesson 139: Homophone Contractions: ‘‘You’re’’ 158

    Lesson 140: Homophone Contractions: ‘‘It’s’’ 159

    Lesson 141: Homophone Contractions: ‘‘Who’s’’ 160

    Silent Letters 161

    Lesson 142: Silent Letters: WR 165

    Lesson 143: Silent Letters: GN 166

    Lesson 144: Silent Letters: KN 167

    Lesson 145: Silent Letters: Silent Blend GH 168

    Lesson 146: Silent Letters: Silent B and d 169

    Lesson 147: Silent Letters: Silent H and P 170

    Lesson 148: Silent Letters: Silent PH and QU 171

    Lesson 149: Silent Letters: Silent T and U 172

    Double Letters 173

    Lesson 150: Double Letters: FF 175

    Lesson 151: Double Letters: LL 176

    Lesson 152: Double Letters: SS 177

    Lesson 153: Double Letters: ZZ 178

    Suffixes 179

    Lesson 154: Suffixes: Doubling Final Consonant 181

    Lesson 155: Suffixes: Doubling Two-Vowel Words 182

    Lesson 156: Suffixes: Doubling Two Consonants at End 183

    Lesson 157: Suffixes: Words Ending in E 184

    Compound Words 185

    Lesson 158: Compound Words 187

    Prefixes 189

    Lesson 159: Prefixes: Letter Doubling A- 191

    Lesson 160: Prefixes: Letter Doubling O- and CO- 192

    Ending Sounds 193

    Lesson 161: Ending Sounds: LE = EL 195

    Lesson 162: Ending Sounds: ER = AR = OR 196

    Lesson 163: Ending Sounds: ER = AR = OR 197

    Lesson 164: Ending Sounds: K and CK 198

    Lesson 165: Ending Sounds: KE and NK 199

    Spelling Problems 201

    Lesson 166: Spelling Problems: Letter c 203

    Lesson 167: Spelling Problems: IE or EI? 204

    Lesson 168: Spelling Problems: -TION vs. -SION 205

    Lesson 169: Spelling Problems: -AIR vs. -ARE 206

    Homophone Look-Up Drills 207

    Lesson 170: Homophone Look-Up Drill 209

    Lesson 171: Homophone Look-Up Drill 210

    Lesson 172: Homophone Look-Up Drill 211

    Lesson 173: Homophone Look-Up Drill 212

    Lesson 174: Homophone Look-Up Drill 213

    Lesson 175: Homophone Look-Up Drill 214

    Lesson 176: Homophone Look-Up Drill 215

    Lesson 177: Homophone Look-Up Drill 216

    Lesson 178: Homophone Look-Up Drill 217

    Lesson 179: Homophone Look-Up Drill 218

    Lesson 180: Homophone Look-Up Drill 219

    Appendix: Homophone Master List 221

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Publication Date: 05/03/2010
      ISBN13: 9780470429808, 978-0470429808
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The effective and fun-filled way to teach spelling to elementary students

      The Spelling Teacher''s Lesson-a-Day gives teachers 180 engaging and ready-to-use lessons-one for each day of the school year-that boost spelling skills in students grades 3-6. These lessons may be used as sponge or hook activities (five-minute lessons to start off each school day) or teachers may simply pick and choose activities from within the book for the occasional spelling lesson. Fry teaches spelling patterns by contrasting homophones (like-sounding words) to help students recognize these spelling patterns in more complex words. He also boosts students'' spelling skills by demystifying contractions, abbreviations, capitalization, silent letters, suffixes and prefixes, and more.

      • Offers an easy-to-use method for teaching spelling that has been proven to be effective
      • Includes 180 ready-to-use, reproducible lessons-one for each day of the school year
      • A new volum

        Table of Contents

        Introduction xv

        Part I Homophones and Phonics Lessons 1

        Lesson 1: be vs. bee 3

        Lesson 2: by vs. bye vs. buy 4

        Lesson 3: fair vs. fare 5

        Lesson 4: no vs. know 6

        Lesson 5: to vs. too vs. two 7

        Lesson 6: loan vs. lone 8

        Lesson 7: tail vs. tale 9

        Lesson 8: sea vs. see 10

        Lesson 9: lie vs. lye 11

        Lesson 10: meat vs. meet 12

        Lesson 11: maid vs. made 13

        Lesson 12: son vs. sun 14

        Lesson 13: dear vs. deer 15

        Lesson 14: do vs. due vs. dew 16

        Lesson 15: wood vs. would 17

        Lesson 16: write vs. right 18

        Lesson 17: pole vs. poll 19

        Lesson 18: bear vs. bare 20

        Lesson 19: tax vs. tacks 21

        Lesson 20: bite vs. byte 22

        Lesson 21: brake vs. break 23

        Lesson 22: mail vs. male 24

        Lesson 23: flea vs. flee 25

        Lesson 24: shoe vs. shoo 26

        Lesson 25: cheap vs. cheep 27

        Lesson 26: hall vs. haul 28

        Lesson 27: leak vs. leek 29

        Lesson 28: roll vs. role 30

        Lesson 29: die vs. dye 31

        Lesson 30: led vs. lead 32

        Lesson 31: eight vs. ate 33

        Lesson 32: I vs. eye 34

        Lesson 33: ball vs. bawl 35

        Lesson 34: base vs. bass 36

        Lesson 35: week vs. weak 37

        Lesson 36: not vs. knot 38

        Lesson 37: rain vs. reign 39

        Lesson 38: plain vs. plane 40

        Lesson 39: past vs. passed 41

        Lesson 40: or vs. oar 42

        Lesson 41: beach vs. beech 43

        Lesson 42: row vs. roe 44

        Lesson 43: pause vs. paws 45

        Lesson 44: oh vs. owe 46

        Lesson 45: beat vs. beet 47

        Lesson 46: pier vs. peer 48

        Lesson 47: hole vs. whole 49

        Lesson 48: which vs. witch 50

        Lesson 49: hail vs. hale 51

        Lesson 50: guest vs. guessed 52

        Lesson 51: sell vs. cell 53

        Lesson 52: cents vs. sense 54

        Lesson 53: bread vs. bred 55

        Lesson 54: band vs. banned 56

        Lesson 55: root vs. route 57

        Lesson 56: peak vs. peek 58

        Lesson 57: one vs. won 59

        Lesson 58: night vs. knight 60

        Lesson 59: rose vs. rows 61

        Lesson 60: pail vs. pale 62

        Lesson 61: in vs. inn 63

        Lesson 62: road vs. rode 64

        Lesson 63: pair vs. pear 65

        Lesson 64: him vs. hymn 66

        Lesson 65: fur vs. fir 67

        Lesson 66: hair vs. hare 68

        Lesson 67: new vs. knew 69

        Lesson 68: higher vs. hire 70

        Lesson 69: flu vs. flew 71

        Lesson 70: great vs. grate 72

        Lesson 71: hi vs. high 73

        Lesson 72: find vs. fined 74

        Lesson 73: so vs. sew 75

        Lesson 74: raise vs. rays 76

        Lesson 75: way vs. weigh 77

        Lesson 76: ant vs. aunt 78

        Lesson 77: berry vs. bury 79

        Lesson 78: blue vs. blew 80

        Lesson 79: our vs. hour 81

        Lesson 80: plum vs. plumb 82

        Lesson 81: read vs. reed 83

        Lesson 82: ring vs. wring 84

        Lesson 83: toe vs. tow 85

        Lesson 84: rap vs. wrap 86

        Lesson 85: warn vs. worn 87

        Lesson 86: least vs. leased 88

        Lesson 87: red vs. read 89

        Lesson 88: bale vs. bail 90

        Lesson 89: been vs. bin 91

        Lesson 90: flower vs. flour 92

        Part II Contractions, Capitalization, Common Misspellings, and More 93

        Contractions 95

        Lesson 91: Contractions: Not 97

        Lesson 92: Contractions: Will or Shall 98

        Lesson 93: Contractions: Have 99

        Lesson 94: Contractions: Would or Had 100

        Lesson 95: Contractions: Is or Has 101

        Lesson 96: Contractions: Various 102

        Capitalization 103

        Lesson 97: Capitalization: First Word 105

        Lesson 98: Capitalization: Names 106

        Lesson 99: Capitalization: Places 107

        Lesson 100: Capitalization: Pets 108

        Lesson 101: Capitalization: Holidays 109

        Lesson 102: Capitalization: Books, Plays, and Movies 110

        Lesson 103: Capitalization: Periodicals 111

        Lesson 104: Capitalization: People’s Titles 112

        Lesson 105: Capitalization: Companies 113

        Lesson 106: Capitalization: Quotations 114

        Lesson 107: Capitalization: Review 115

        Common Misspellings 117

        Lesson 108: Common Misspellings 119

        Lesson 109: Common Misspellings 120

        Lesson 110: Common Misspellings 121

        Lesson 111: Common Misspellings 122

        Lesson 112: Common Misspellings 123

        Lesson 113: Common Misspellings 124

        Lesson 114: Common Misspellings 125

        Lesson 115: Common Misspellings 126

        Lesson 116: Common Misspellings 127

        Lesson 117: Common Misspellings 128

        Plurals 129

        Lesson 118: Plurals: For Most Words 131

        Lesson 119: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘S’’ or ‘‘SS’’ 132

        Lesson 120: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘CH’’ 133

        Lesson 121: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘SH’’ 134

        Lesson 122: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘X’’ 135

        Lesson 123: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘Y’’ 136

        Lesson 124: Plurals: For Words Ending in ‘‘O’’ 137

        Lesson 125: Plurals: Irregular Plurals 138

        Lesson 126: Plurals: Invariable Nouns 139

        Abbreviations 141

        Lesson 127: Abbreviations: First Two Letters 143

        Lesson 128: Abbreviations: First and Last Letters 144

        Lesson 129: Abbreviations: First and Middle Letters 145

        Lesson 130: Abbreviations: Two-Word State Names 146

        Lesson 131: Abbreviations: Initializations 147

        Lesson 132: Abbreviations: Days of the Week 148

        Lesson 133: Abbreviations: Months of the Year 149

        Lesson 134: Abbreviations: Streets 150

        Lesson 135: Abbreviations: Titles 151

        Lesson 136: Abbreviations: Time 152

        Lesson 137: Abbreviations: Various Fields 153

        Homophone Contractions 155

        Lesson 138: Homophone Contractions: ‘‘They’re’’ 157

        Lesson 139: Homophone Contractions: ‘‘You’re’’ 158

        Lesson 140: Homophone Contractions: ‘‘It’s’’ 159

        Lesson 141: Homophone Contractions: ‘‘Who’s’’ 160

        Silent Letters 161

        Lesson 142: Silent Letters: WR 165

        Lesson 143: Silent Letters: GN 166

        Lesson 144: Silent Letters: KN 167

        Lesson 145: Silent Letters: Silent Blend GH 168

        Lesson 146: Silent Letters: Silent B and d 169

        Lesson 147: Silent Letters: Silent H and P 170

        Lesson 148: Silent Letters: Silent PH and QU 171

        Lesson 149: Silent Letters: Silent T and U 172

        Double Letters 173

        Lesson 150: Double Letters: FF 175

        Lesson 151: Double Letters: LL 176

        Lesson 152: Double Letters: SS 177

        Lesson 153: Double Letters: ZZ 178

        Suffixes 179

        Lesson 154: Suffixes: Doubling Final Consonant 181

        Lesson 155: Suffixes: Doubling Two-Vowel Words 182

        Lesson 156: Suffixes: Doubling Two Consonants at End 183

        Lesson 157: Suffixes: Words Ending in E 184

        Compound Words 185

        Lesson 158: Compound Words 187

        Prefixes 189

        Lesson 159: Prefixes: Letter Doubling A- 191

        Lesson 160: Prefixes: Letter Doubling O- and CO- 192

        Ending Sounds 193

        Lesson 161: Ending Sounds: LE = EL 195

        Lesson 162: Ending Sounds: ER = AR = OR 196

        Lesson 163: Ending Sounds: ER = AR = OR 197

        Lesson 164: Ending Sounds: K and CK 198

        Lesson 165: Ending Sounds: KE and NK 199

        Spelling Problems 201

        Lesson 166: Spelling Problems: Letter c 203

        Lesson 167: Spelling Problems: IE or EI? 204

        Lesson 168: Spelling Problems: -TION vs. -SION 205

        Lesson 169: Spelling Problems: -AIR vs. -ARE 206

        Homophone Look-Up Drills 207

        Lesson 170: Homophone Look-Up Drill 209

        Lesson 171: Homophone Look-Up Drill 210

        Lesson 172: Homophone Look-Up Drill 211

        Lesson 173: Homophone Look-Up Drill 212

        Lesson 174: Homophone Look-Up Drill 213

        Lesson 175: Homophone Look-Up Drill 214

        Lesson 176: Homophone Look-Up Drill 215

        Lesson 177: Homophone Look-Up Drill 216

        Lesson 178: Homophone Look-Up Drill 217

        Lesson 179: Homophone Look-Up Drill 218

        Lesson 180: Homophone Look-Up Drill 219

        Appendix: Homophone Master List 221

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