American Spirit continues to guide students through the skill development stage of spelling. Students will read about various people and events from American history, with a gradually increasing reading level. Just as in the previous level, American Spirit utilizes the three core activities of Spelling You See: chunking -- which provides hands-on experience with English's many irregular letter patterns, copywork -- which requires the brain to pay attention to details in print, and dictation -- which gives an opportunity for student to demonstrate decoding and encoding in a meaningful context.