Teaching Kids to Spell

by J. Richard Gentry and Jean W Gillet

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...

• 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"

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!