phonicSpelling WORKBOOK, Basic Everyday Spelling = 94-Page Student Text

Basic Everyday Spelling Workbook teaches and practices fundamental phonics and spelling patterns that apply to one-syllable words with common, predictable sound-letter correlations.  It does so through sound vs. letter presentations, vocabulary building, error correction, word puzzles, games, stories, and more.  Lesson titles include "Short Vowels," "Long Vowels," "Long Vowels with Final -e, "Consonants, "Other Vowel Sounds," "More Consonant Spellings," and "Combinations of Consonants."  There are three review lessons, four "Progress Tests," and a "Final Test."  Its hundreds of amusing illustrations help make the text into a kind of "picture dictionary."   

Accompanying the Basic Everyday Workbook are two 90-minutes CDs of all the audio material in the text. The corresponding BESW Instructors' Guide provides a Tapescript of these auditory exercises as well as the answers to all text activities and tests. It also offers creative ideas for in-class use of the text, remedial and supplementary activities, and ways to combine spelling instruction with whole-language skills lessons.

ISBN 978-1-891077-87-6

(The "higher-level" Practical Everyday Spelling Workbook [ISBN 978-1-891077-88-3] and its ancillary materials have the same format as BESW.  In addition to reviewing the material of the Basic book, however, they also cover alternative, unusual, and exceptional letter spellings, homophones, compound words, multi-syllable words, vowels before -r, and silent consonants.)