Contains reproducible sorts and detailed directions for activities designed to help within word pattern spellers in first through fourth grade, and includes literature connections, assessments, and other resources.
A boy named Brilliant Brain, who is good at soccer and math but not spelling, visits a fantasy land called Intelligence Avenue and meets the Smart Parts, who teach him strategies for remembering how to spell commonly misspelled words.
When Sage's spelling and definition of a word reveal her misunderstanding of it to her classmates, she is at first embarrassed but then uses her mistake as inspiration for the vocabulary parade.
