Spelling for Life (eBook)

Introduction

1. Orthographic Mapping
2. Spelling Assessment
3. Broken Rules and Word Stories
4. Word Families
5. Homophones
6. Mnemonics
7. Counting Syllables
8. Affixes
9. The Spelling Formula
10. The Difference Between Vowels and Consonants
11. What Consonants Say
12. Round the Blend
13. Illegal Letters
14. The Single Vowels
15. The Letter 'y'
16. Final Silent E, Jobs 1-3
17. FINAL SILENT E Job 4
18. Final Silent E and Suffixes
19. Final Silent E Additional Jobs
20. The Wicked Sisters and Other Wacky Rs
21. The Vowel Generator
22. Strong and Weak Syllables
23. Schwa
24. To Double or not to Double?
25. The return of illegal 'i'
26. The Suffix Generator
27. More Fascinating Patterns
28. Some Delightful Lists
29. A Suggested Scope and Sequence

Appendix 1. Forgive me, Scotland

Appendix 2. The Triangle Game

Appendix 3 Why not just make spelling simpler?