Evan-Moor Building Spelling Skills, Grade 1 Teaching Edition

I totally love Building Spelling Skills %delete. I teach Special Education Modified Reading and Writing classes so my students are below grade level. This Spelling Activities provide for group work or independent practice. They have also learned not to memorize the spelling words, but are actually learning and recognizing the words.

I teach 5th grade in an inner city school, and we have no spelling curriculum tied into our literacy block. I used this spelling curriculum with my students last year and was quite pleased. I also used the phonics workbook in conjunction with this workbook.

I used it all year! It has great scaffolding for students who need it. The only thing I would add is a part that has the student write a sentence a specific word correctly. Many of my students needed that practice to help their mastery of the vocabulary used in spelling words.

I purchased this book a couple of months ago to help program for students with advanced skills in a younger grade. It's a great resource! In the second unit however, a few of the numbers were missing for a few activities (including the cross-word puzzle). I'm sure this can easily be tweaked. Don't hesitate to buy!

Great resource to use in daily morning routine with students. Also used as homework on a regular basis. Parents loved helping their child succeed and they also knew upcoming activities, so children could progress at their own rate. Overall, very effective and enjoyable resource for students and it did motivate reluctant students to succeed. Thank you, Evan-Moor!

Solid spelling book. would be nice if it had a companion reading curriculum that used the spelling words

The box was used to help my daughter get ahead of the game before she received the spelling from the teacher. I enjoy the book the only problem is that some of the pages are different than what my daughters Teacher sends home. Overall its nice to know that parents can obtain these materials to move your child in the right direction.

I do not give a traditional spelling test, therefore I expect my students to be able to use their spelling words in many different ways. They are given the list of dictation sentences at the beginning of the school year to keep in their binders. They are expected to know how to write these sentences with correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. This is the only time they will have to write the spelling words contained in the sentences for this test. I then give them several of the "left over" spelling words in a traditional manner. They must then use this set of words to answer questions (How many syllables in the word you wrote for number 1? What word has a long vowel sound? What is an antonym/synonym for the word your wrote at number 3? Circle the consonant blends in each word that you wrote above., etc.) Then they are given the last four words to use in a journal prompt. They are graded using a scoring guide based on our report card standards. The Building Spelling Skills program provides an easy structure to build upon. I give the students each unit as a weekly packet to complete for homework (one page per night) and we go over it in class. It is simple enough for the parents to understand, yet challenging enough to make students think about the words. It is easy to build daily center activities around the word lists to help them be successful writers for both the assessment and the real world. Since all levels are set up the same way, it is also easy to differentiate for the students, but use the same basic structure.

Good for building confidence in a weak speller. Activities are similar for each week and can feel a bit repetitive, but they do have some variation to prevent extreme boredom! Reinforces spatial memory. Very straight-forward and pleasing to a learner who gets irritated with complex procedures or too many "decorations" in their lessons.

I had an old copy of the 3rd grade spelling and liked the variety of word work each lesson had. There is letter work, editing, comprehension, sentence dictation, and phonics work for each spelling list. I bought the online version of grades 1, 2, and 3. Problems: 2nd grade list is too simple. I would consider it on a 1st grade level. I only use it for my kids who have extreme reading problems. The online version needs to have built in bookmarks. It is a bother to have to scroll down to find what you are looking for. It should have an index and the ability to click on a specific lesson or resource and go directly to that page.