Introd. -- Principles and practices -- Planning a school spelling program -- Letters -- Phonological awareness -- Onsets and rimes -- Sounds -- Spelling patterns -- Contractions -- Compound words -- Homophones -- Plurals -- Prefixes and suffixes -- Derivatives and origins of English words -- Apostrophes for possessives and plurals -- Proofreading -- High-frequency words -- Personal words to learn -- Sample schedules for a school spelling program
Summary
This book "provides a possible school plan for the teaching of spelling for the purpose of writing and we suggest a constructivist approach that can be used for teaching all aspects of spelling. [The] suggestions are based on what is understood about children's development in spelling, principles of English orthography, and the ways people acquire understanding and an ability to apply what is learned."--Introduction