All About Spelling

Use this one-time purchase kit for all levels of All about Spelling. Includes Letter tiles, Magnets, Phonogram CD-ROM, and Divider Cards. Necessary for teaching Levels 1 to 6.

Your children will learn:

• How to say and write the first 32 phonograms
• How to segment words into their individual sounds
• Short and long vowel sounds
• How to identify and count syllables in a word
• How to choose between c and k at the beginning of a word
• When to double f, l, and s
• How to spell /k/ at the end of a word
• How to form plural words by adding s or es
• Compound words
• Open and closed syllable types
• And more!

Students learn key spelling concepts such as:

• The open and closed syllable types
• How to divide words into syllables
• How to spell multisyllable words
• When y can say /î/
• How Silent E can make a vowel long
• The vowel-consonant-e syllable type
• Two spellings for the sound of /z/
• The two sounds of long u
• The difference between hard and soft c and g
• Ways to spell long e
• That English words don't end in i,j, u or v
• The most common way to spell the sound of /er/
• When to use oi/oy, aw/au, and ow/ou
• and more!

In a practical, hands-on way, your students will learn:

• Two additional ways to spell the sound of long a
• Five reasons for adding a silent e to the end of a word
• The C+le syllable type
• How to add consonant and vowel suffixes
• More ways to spell the sound of long o
• The three sounds of past tense suffix -ed
• When to double consonants before adding suffixes
• When to drop the silent e before adding a suffix
• More ways to spell long e
• Additional ways to spell the sound of /er/
• More ways to spell long i
• Contractions
• Homophones
• And more!

In Level 4 of All About Spelling, your children will learn important spelling concepts such as

• Spelling strategies that will help them tackle longer words with ease
• When to use ch or tch for the sound of /ch/
• When to use the three ways to spell the sound of /j/
• How to add prefixes
• Additional ways to spell the sound of /er/
• and more!

Level 5 of All About Spelling teaches your children important spelling strategies such as:

• When to apply the I-Before-E Generalization
• How to add two suffixes to a word
• Clues for when to use tion and sion to spell the sound of /shun/
• The Doubling Rule for adding vowel suffixes
• Nine ways to pluralize words
• and more!

Level 6 of All About Spelling covers key spelling concepts such as:

• Strategies for choosing between -cle and -cal
• Clues for when to use -ible and when to use -able to spell the sound of /ibl/
• Exceptions to the I-Before-E Generalization, and easy ways to remember them
• Practice with -il, -el, -al, and -le
• and much more!