Teaching Kids to Spell For Dummies [Paperback]

Tracey Wood (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764576240 | ISBN-13: 978-0764576249 | Publication Date: March 25, 2005 | Edition: 1

Filled with enjoyable spelling activities and exercises

The fun and easy way? to help your K-5th grader become an A+ speller

If you want to make spelling easier for your child or boost spelling skills and confidence, you've come to the right place. Veteran reading specialist Tracey Wood gives you tips, games, exercises, word lists, and memory aids to help your child build solid spelling know-how. Her techniques are fun, fast, and effective, and best of all, they're not boring!

Discover how to
* Mix spelling practice with reading and writing
* Spell short and long vowel words
* Make spelling easier with word families
* Gain insight into "sight" words
* Break spelling into syllable chunks

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Filled with enjoyable spelling activities and exercises

The fun and easy way® to help your K–5th grader become an A+ speller

If you want to make spelling easier for your child or boost spelling skills and confidence, you've come to the right place. Veteran reading specialist Tracey Wood gives you tips, games, exercises, word lists, and memory aids to help your child build solid spelling know-how. Her techniques are fun, fast, and effective, and best of all, they're not boring!

Discover how to

• Mix spelling practice with reading and writing
• Spell short and long vowel words
• Make spelling easier with word families
• Gain insight into "sight" words
• Break spelling into syllable chunks

About the Author

Tracey Wood, MEd, is a children's reading specialist and former teacher. Her books include See Johnny Read!: The 5 Most Effective Ways to End Your Son's Reading Problems.

Product Details

• Paperback: 382 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (March 25, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764576240
• ISBN-13: 978-0764576249
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #264,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sheree B -Boston, June 14, 2006

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Sheree B (Boston) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teaching Kids to Spell For Dummies (Paperback)

If you want your child to win the national spelling bee this probably isnt the book you need but if you want simple explanations of fairly hard spellings this is a great book. You get lists of words with tricky sounds in them and a lot of word families and its all explained in easy terms. I have taught my child many of the lists and will keep going.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple Teaching Tool, April 8, 2007

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J. Nelson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teaching Kids to Spell For Dummies (Paperback)

Although this book is aimed at parents, it is a quick and easy tool for teachers as well. I have seen several ideas that can be used in my kindergarten classroom and shared with parents to use at home. The book also covers severl levels from beginning spellers to higher levels.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book full of activites, July 28, 2005

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a reader - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teaching Kids to Spell For Dummies (Paperback)

I found this book very practical and helpful.It gave me fun games and simple word lists.try this book if you want tips and useful information that really works.