Personally, if I were going to choose a spelling program from the many out there, I believe this would be the one. The first grade book, for example, has phonetic word lists. The first one contains the following words: an, at, and, am a. The last list has these: book, good, look, wood, took, take, stood, stand. The dictation for the last list includes this sentence: Take a look at this good book. The exercises help students learn proper usage -- not just spelling. Students find mistakes in writing -- a good start in proofreading. They write missing words in sentences choosing from a list underneath the blank. Example from Grade 1 first lesson again: I ____ sad. Word choices are an am a. Students match rhyming words in this lesson, as well, and supply missing letters in another exercise.

Personally, if I were going to choose a spelling program from the many out there, I believe this would be the one. The first grade book, for example, has phonetic word lists. The first one contains the following words: an, at, and, am a. The last list has these: book, good, look, wood, took, take, stood, stand. The dictation for the last list includes this sentence: Take a look at this good book. The exercises help students learn proper usage -- not just spelling. Students find mistakes in writing -- a good start in proofreading. They write missing words in sentences choosing from a list underneath the blank. Example from Grade 1 first lesson again: I ____ sad. Word choices are an am a. Students match rhyming words in this lesson, as well, and supply missing letters in another exercise.

Personally, if I were going to choose a spelling program from the many out there, I believe this would be the one. The first grade book, for example, has phonetic word lists. The first one contains the following words: an, at, and, am a. The last list has these: book, good, look, wood, took, take, stood, stand. The dictation for the last list includes this sentence: Take a look at this good book. The exercises help students learn proper usage -- not just spelling. Students find mistakes in writing -- a good start in proofreading. They write missing words in sentences choosing from a list underneath the blank. Example from Grade 1 first lesson again: I ____ sad. Word choices are an am a. Students match rhyming words in this lesson, as well, and supply missing letters in another exercise.

Personally, if I were going to choose a spelling program from the many out there, I believe this would be the one. The first grade book, for example, has phonetic word lists. The first one contains the following words: an, at, and, am a. The last list has these: book, good, look, wood, took, take, stood, stand. The dictation for the last list includes this sentence: Take a look at this good book. The exercises help students learn proper usage -- not just spelling. Students find mistakes in writing -- a good start in proofreading. They write missing words in sentences choosing from a list underneath the blank. Example from Grade 1 first lesson again: I ____ sad. Word choices are an am a. Students match rhyming words in this lesson, as well, and supply missing letters in another exercise.

Personally, if I were going to choose a spelling program from the many out there, I believe this would be the one. The first grade book, for example, has phonetic word lists. The first one contains the following words: an, at, and, am a. The last list has these: book, good, look, wood, took, take, stood, stand. The dictation for the last list includes this sentence: Take a look at this good book. The exercises help students learn proper usage -- not just spelling. Students find mistakes in writing -- a good start in proofreading. They write missing words in sentences choosing from a list underneath the blank. Example from Grade 1 first lesson again: I ____ sad. Word choices are an am a. Students match rhyming words in this lesson, as well, and supply missing letters in another exercise.

Personally, if I were going to choose a spelling program from the many out there, I believe this would be the one. The first grade book, for example, has phonetic word lists. The first one contains the following words: an, at, and, am a. The last list has these: book, good, look, wood, took, take, stood, stand. The dictation for the last list includes this sentence: Take a look at this good book. The exercises help students learn proper usage -- not just spelling. Students find mistakes in writing -- a good start in proofreading. They write missing words in sentences choosing from a list underneath the blank. Example from Grade 1 first lesson again: I ____ sad. Word choices are an am a. Students match rhyming words in this lesson, as well, and supply missing letters in another exercise.

Contrast this with the lessons in the Grade 6 level. Lesson 1 has the following list: aunt, straight, freighter, waist, agent, acre, mayor, obey, restrain, campaign, persuade, survey, anticipate, famous, fragile, axle, plague, and aptitude. A sample dictation sentence in the lesson is My aunt has a wonderful aptitude for handling fragile plants. Exercises for lesson one include a crossword puzzle for word meaning, a phonics exercise where students list the words from the lesson that have a long a sound and then they circle the long a sound in each word. They match syllables from two different columns to make spelling words. They edit for spelling in two ways: first they circle one of three words in each row that is spelled correctly. Then they circle misspelled words (three to a sentence) and write them correctly on the lines underneath. Not only does this kind of exercise help prepare students for standardized tests, but it helps them learn to find mistakes in actual writing -- a skill they will need when editing and revising their own writing. The last list in this book contains such challenging words as peninsula, bureaucracy, archeology, parallelogram, perpendicular, rhombus, and more. And students learn their meanings -- not just how to spell them.