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This spelling program from Evan-Moor provides great supplemental worksheets to help students practice specific spelling words and is also comprehensive enough to use as a main spelling curriculum. Little teacher prep is required and each spelling list should only take 15-30 minutes to complete, so it's a great program if you don't have much time. Each book has 30 weekly spelling units and each unit consists of a spelling list, sentences for dictation that include the spelling words, and four reproducible student practice pages. The actual number of spelling words per unit varies by grade level; Gr. 1 has 5-8 words per unit for a total of 198 words, Gr. 4 has 18 spelling words in each unit for a total of 540 words, etc. Words at each level were selected from lists of commonly used words, commonly misspelled words, words with common phonetic or structural elements, and words changed by adding affixes and forming compound words or contractions. The thirty word lists for Gr. 1 are composed of words that all have the same short vowel sound or similar word endings (like "ill"� and "ow"�) while the lists for Gr. 3 include words ending in "ing"� and recognizing the "ur"� sound in "heard"� and "early."�

Students review the grade-specific word lists in a variety of ways throughout the week. On Monday the words are introduced and students read, copy, and write the words. The Tuesday worksheet is composed of visual memory activities like using the words to fill in boxes and crossing out misspelled words. The Wednesday worksheet quizzes on word meaning and dictation; students fill in blanks in sentences using the spelling words and repeat and write down sentences read by the teacher. The Thursday worksheet is composed of word study activities like underlining words with a long "a"� sound, filling in missing letters of words, matching rhyming words, etc. The Friday worksheet is the final test for the spelling list and there are blanks for students to write out each word and also lines to redo the dictation done on Wednesday. With plenty of activities for each spelling list, students are sure to remember the correct spelling.

Also included in the books are lists of targeted skills, teacher ideas, spelling strategies, reproducible forms for record keeping, complete answer keys, completion certificates, dictation sentences for teachers to read, and more. Each book is reproducible, has perforated pages, and is a 160 page softcover.