Spelling Mastery Series Guide

Spelling Mastery builds dependable spelling skills for students in grades 1-6 through a highly structured direct instruction method that blends the following approaches:

1. Phonemic approach - Helps beginning spellers learn the relationships between spoken sounds and written letters and then apply them to spelling
2. Morphemic approach - Exposes advanced spellers to prefixes, bases, and suffixes
3. Whole-word approach - Gives spellers at all levels the meaning and root of a word and shows how the word's spelling is influenced

The Spelling Mastery Series Guide provides:

• An overview of the Spelling Mastery series, and the current edition
• Assessment and Review – including information on Types of Assessments, Placement Tests, End-of-Level/Criterion Tests and more
• Teaching Spelling Mastery – including information on Classroom Organisation, Using the Teacher Presentation Book, Teaching to Criteria, Guidelines to Mastery and more
• Correcting Errors
• Focus on Students – including information on motivating students and student resources
• Frequent questions and answers
• Sample lessons for each level (A,B,C,D,E,F)
• Word Lists for each level (A,B,C,D,E,F)