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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 28
   National Spelling Bee Finals are held this week.
   Students discuss why certain contests get more publicity than others and what counts as "knowledge."
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Shared Spelling Strategies
   Students increase their spelling accuracy and retention, while preserving fluency, by using sound, sight recall, and analyzing strategies instead of memorizing words, as they deal with spelling during drafting.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Spelling in Use: Looking Closely at Spelling in Whole Language Classrooms
   Laminack and Wood describe, in accessible and lively prose, both the theoretical foundations and the practical details of whole language classrooms.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
   "2-4-6-8, students will be spelling great" in this lesson that teaches the y rule for adding suffixes through cheering the spelling of words aloud, word sorts, and writing stories.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Printout  |  Word Play
   Spelling “Go Fish” Card Game
   Use the familiar card game Go Fish to help children learn groups of tricky spelling words such as “conceive” and “autumn.”
6. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Spelling in Parts: A Strategy for Spelling and Decoding Polysyllabic Words
   The Spelling in Parts strategy can enhance children's ability to spell and decode multisyllabic words.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Spelling in Parts: Learning to Spell, Write, and Read Polysyllabic Words
   How do you spell polysyllabic? While this word may be a bit too advanced for students, they will definitely be spelling polysyllabic words using a strategy called Spelling in Parts.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Spelling Patterns "Go Fish" Card Game
   Students use sets of words that share a spelling pattern to create a card game like "Go Fish" and then play the game in groups, helping them improve their spelling.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Sort, Hunt, Write: A Weekly Spelling Program
   It's easy to make spelling fun. Using a variety of activities from sorting to using words in context will help deepen students' understanding of word patterns.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Two Voices of the ow Spelling Pattern
    Variable vowels are the focus of this lesson; students use nursery rhymes and ow to study how vowels can change their sounds according to different spelling patterns.

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