Product Description
by Marlene McCracken (Author), Robert McCracken (Author), Sheri Sutterley (Foreword by)
This 40th anniversary edition of the beloved bestseller, Spelling Through Phonics, has the same compact and easy-to-use format thousands of educators know and love! With the McCrackens' original spelling instruction program, this book provides detailed instructions and reproducibles to help you
- understand phonemic awareness, and how it helps children develop spelling and other literacy skills
- teach spelling easily, quickly, and efficiently
- integrate visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning strategies
- effectively assess and react to students' writing
- provide immediate feedback as part of spelling instruction
- organize students' spelling practice within the school day
- introduce, practice, and review new words and sounds with students in grades 1-3
Help your students become proficient spellers, as well as confident readers and writers, with this developmentally appropriate framework.
Dedicated to the memory of The McCrackens, this 40th anniversary edition honors their invaluable contributions to English language arts and literacy instruction across North America.
Author Biography
Robert and Marlene McCracken, a husband and wife team, are credited with developing a literature-based teaching approach to build children's literacy. They began teaching together in 1970 and formed the McCracken Educational Services, USA, Inc. in 1986 to help teachers develop curricula and strategies for helping students--especially at-risk and ESL students--develop literacy. The McCracken approach is founded in the belief that as a result of being read to, most children can be taught to listen, think, speak, and write about what they have heard and that reading follows just as naturally as the tail follows the tiger.
