The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day: 180 Reproducible Activities to Teach Spelling, Phonics, and Vocabulary [Paperback]

The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day gives teachers 180 engaging and ready-to-use lessons-one for each day of the school year-that boost spelling skills in students grades 3-6. These lessons may be used as sponge or hook activities (five-minute lessons to start off each school day) or teachers may simply pick and choose activities from within the book for the occasional spelling lesson. Fry teaches spelling patterns by contrasting homophones (like-sounding words) to help students recognize these spelling patterns in more complex words. He also boosts students' spelling skills by demystifying contractions, abbreviations, capitalization, silent letters, suffixes and prefixes, and more.

• Offers an easy-to-use method for teaching spelling that has been proven to be effective
• Includes 180 ready-to-use, reproducible lessons-one for each day of the school year
• A new volume in the new series 5-Minute FUNdamentals

This book is designed to be used by classroom teachers, homeschoolers, tutors, and parents.

Introduction xv

Part I Homophones and Phonics Lessons 1

Lesson 1: be vs. bee 3

Lesson 2: by vs. bye vs. buy 4

Lesson 3: fair vs. fare 5

Lesson 4: no vs. know 6

Lesson 5: to vs. too vs. two 7

Lesson 6: loan vs. lone 8

Lesson 7: tail vs. tale 9

Lesson 8: sea vs. see 10

Lesson 9: lie vs. lye 11

Lesson 10: meat vs. meet 12

Lesson 11: maid vs. made 13

Lesson 12: son vs. sun 14

Lesson 13: dear vs. deer 15

Lesson 14: do vsl¾