In Spelling Plus 1000 Words toward Spelling Success, author Susan Anthony addresses her concerns of the difficulty students may encounter in applying what is learned from their spelling lessons to their actual writing. One of her recommendations was to incorporate the practice of dictation. The Spelling Dictation Resource Book, specifically written by Anthony to supplement Spelling Plus, provides the links between spelling, language mechanics, and real life writing applications. The goal of this book is to help students achieve balance between creativity and grammatical correctness in writing.

In a concerted effort to help save time, this book provides sample sentences for dictation that correspond to the spelling lists presented in Spelling Plus. With the exception of the kindergarten lists, sentences are provided for each lesson; 20 for lists 4-47 and 10 for lists 48-69. All the spelling words from the previous week's lesson, as well as words that may follow the same spelling patterns that have been taught, are covered in the current dictation lesson. Additional features of this book include suggestions on how to use the Spelling Plus 1000 core words as a basis in teaching many language skills such as capitalization and punctuation as well as word histories for each of the 1000 words. In just 15-20 minutes a day, your child will quickly become proficient in checking and correcting his or her own written work while attaining the skill where writing is done with almost no conscious thought. ~ Enh

Customer Review

 
Lisa F. from California wrote the following on 01/08/2009:
Our family has used the Spelling Plus book for several years and it works well for us. This Dictation book is a nice supplement to the main book. It provides sentences for the teacher to dictate to the child to make sure they can spell the words from their previous lists. It does require teacher involvement, but not time for preparation. It also includes thorough and helpful information on capitalization, grammar, prefixes and suffixes, word histories and root words. It is a time-saver, but I would not say it is a necessary addition. I don't use it every week, but it is handy. Since you can use it for at least 7 years of spelling lessons (K-6) for each child, it easily pays for its convenience.