orthography and spelling

Presents simple rhymes and riddles designed to help with memorizing difficult to spell words and tricky grammar rules.

When Agatha Parrot joins the spelling club to support her new friend Martha, she gets help from an unexpected source--her cousin, Bella, who thinks she is emailing Agatha's brother.

"[Provides an] approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills"--Provided by publisher.

Provides assessments, reproducible sorts, and instructions for teachers to adopt a hands-on approach to word study for emergent spellers, offering targeted lessons and literature connections, and covering phonemic awareness, rhyming, syllabication, and sound play.

A companion to "Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction," that includes five lessons with reviews of initial consonants, introduces same-vowel word families and r-influenced vowels, covers digraphs and blends, and includes teaching tips, suggestions for literature connections and games, and black line masters for sorts.

This book looks at a variety of topics, such as punctuation within words, spelling rules and their exceptions, and homonyms, and shows why punctuation and spelling are so important for conveying meaning in a range of text types and genres.